July 2015
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Start Here with Windows 10

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Don't let a natural disaster become a data security calamity

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The Exponential Business: How Technology is Transforming Innovation

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Driving us to distraction: the top 5 time-sucks in the office

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Monthly Trivia

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Quote and Cartoon


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Driving us to distraction: the top 5 time-sucks in the office
used with permission from Microsoft for Work

The genius that happens every day in the offices of the world requires a certain amount of focus. Unfortunately, most offices are awash with both physical and mental distractions that pull our attention away from the task at hand. To help you identify common pitfalls, we've zeroed in on the top five productivity killers in the modern age. Better still, we gathered expert advice on ways to block out the noise and get to work.

1. Social media
Rieva Lesonsky, CEO of GrowBiz Media & com, admits her primary distraction is self-inflicted. "Social media can take me off task, especially Twitter. (I'm addicted.)"

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happens to the best of us. You're at a lull in your work, and you get that nagging sensation that something amazing might be happening on Facebook. Why not take a quick peek, just to make sure the world's not passing you by? These brief breaks may seem harmless enough, but making compulsive social media checks during the day can add up to hours a week of lost time.

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Start Here with Windows 10
used with permission from Microsoft for Workk


Windows 10 is the productivity software that individuals and corporations have been asking for. It has been built collaboratively with customers, and embraces its history while learning from the past to create something that's both functional and familiar. With this combination, Windows 10 is the operating system that takes us from the modern day into the future.

The different facets of Windows 10 fall into three categories: what's back, what's familiar, and what's new.

What's back?

The Start menu is back?and it features some of the coolest, most useful improvements. Rather than just bringing the Start menu back, we revisited the idea and also made it more functional.

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Don't let a natural disaster become a data security calamity
used with permission from FTC Business Center Blog
by Lisa Weintraub Schifferle


A natural disaster can wreak havoc on any business. But it's even worse when that real-world catastrophe becomes a data security calamity.

Before the summer storm season arrives, get your business ready. Just like you gather flashlights, bottled water, and emergency supplies, you can prepare your business by reviewing data retention and disposal practices.

Why are data retention practices important? As Bob Dylan said, "the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." Remember the Brooklyn warehouse fire, where media reports indicate that medical records (including drug tests), bank checks, and Social Security numbers were strewn about the neighborhood. Or tornados in the Midwest which literally blew away sensitive personal information, sometimes even across state lines.

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The Exponential Business: How Technology is Transforming Innovation
used with permission from Microsoft for Work

Anyone familiar with technology has likely heard of "Moore's law," the 1965 prediction by Intel cofounder Gordon E. Moore that the number of components in an integrated circuit would double approximately every year. (A decade later, he revised the time span to two years.)

This exponential curve he predicted can be mapped to many other technological advancements too: digital cameras and their pixel counts, machine memory capacity, and the sensitivity of sensors. It also works in reverse, with the reduced cost of 3D printers and the quality of materials they produce, plus the overall quality-adjusted prices of technology.

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Monthly Trivia

First person to submit the correct answers by email to anorton@osgusa.com will receive a $20 Starbucks gift card!

Entries are judged by date/time received and correctness. Include your name and phone number, the question number and the answer.

1) What day did most signers of the Declaration of Independence actually sign the document?

2) Which president was born on the Fourth of July?

3) When did the Fourth of July become a legal federal holiday?

4) Is there something written on the back of the Declaration of Independence?

Cartoon of the Month


Quote of the Month


"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."

 - Julia Ward Howe

 

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