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The Lighter Side: A Summer Roast

Q: What did the pig say at the beach on a hot summer’s day?
A: I’m bacon!

Q: What do you call six weeks of rain in Scotland?
A: Summer!

Q: How do you prevent a summer cold?
A: Catch it in the winter!

Q: What do you call a French guy in sandals?
A: Phillipe Phloppe.

How Do We Really Make Decisions?

By Jim Camp

Neuroscience has made unprecedented discoveries in the last 10 years with scientific studies pointing the way to how we really make decisions. It turns out that decision making is not intellectual. It's emotional. For someone who's involved in business transactions and other types of negotiation, this is a critical piece of information that can give you an enormous advantage.

How To Pick A Good Password

What’s the most common password? You guessed it…”password.” Obviously this is not the best way to protect yourself against hackers and online thieves. But even if you don’t use the word “password,” you might be using an equally easy password to decipher.

Declare Freedom From High Costs & Risks By Throwing Out Data Now

Do you have mountains of information stored on your server that you’ll never use, but feel like you should keep? You are not alone. Given expanding regulatory rules, some practices save every bit of data they have, just to be safe.

You may be thinking, “What’s the big deal in keeping everything?” While it is true off-site data storage costs have gone down by about 25% every year, the fact is that keeping your data forever can create big management challenges and lead to retrieval headaches.

Word's copy and paste functions

Microsoft Word has been an important business tool for many years and will likely continue to be so for many more to come. There are numerous features that are used on a regular basis that, while they should make things easier, can actually create more work.

Take steps to secure online info

Think of the everyday usual precautions you take. When you get into a car, you put on your seatbelt; when you leave the house, you lock the door, the list goes on and on. Yet, when it comes to online security, most people are content with a virus scanner, and do little about securing their personal data stored online.