NEWS FROM THE EDGE

Tech Tips and Advice from the Experts at Dynamic Edge

Collaboration should be easy, but personal experience tells us otherwise. Incompatible applications. Old software. Missing fonts.  PC vs. Mac. All of these (and many more) interfere with your ability to share your ideas with others on your team, in your business, and around the world.

In this FREE one hour webinar, I will show you how to use the Portable Document Format (PDF) to share content so that anyone can view and interact with your file on virtually any platform, including Windows, Mac OS, and mobile platforms including Android and iOS for iPhone and iPad. We’ll even show you how to enable security features, such as password protection, to prevent people from accessing, copying, editing, or printing PDF documents.
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meeting-result-better-2135-lPeople keep asking me this question: “How do I drive traffic to my site?”

It’s one of the most common questions I get, and a very important topic. I wrote an article on this very subject last year, and I have decided to revisit this issue to address this question. Below is my November 2013 article on how to increase traffic to your website.

Last month alone, more than five billion searches were run on Google. The Yellow Pages are dead. My 75-year-old mother doesn’t even look in the Yellow Pages anymore. The issue now? How do you create and maintain a web presence that correctly markets your business? According to a recent Forrester study, if your website is over 36 months old, it is just as dead as the Yellow Pages. Just 36 short months.
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March Newsletter!

Read the March 2014 Edition of the Dynamic Edge Newsletter by clicking the links below:

AA Newsletter – March 2014

TN Newsletter – March 2014

Did you get a new laptop with Windows 8 on it? Are you hoping Microsoft won’t force you to upgrade? Computers are constantly evolving, and you don’t want to get left behind. Just recently, Microsoft announced that they will no longer support Windows XP starting in April! Are you ready?

Join me on April 8th for a FREE webinar where I will share with you everything you need to know about Windows 8. I will reveal the biggest issues businesses experience when transitioning to Windows 8, and provide a number of must know Windows 8 tips to speed up your work. Register below.
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Why You Should Archive Your Inbox

MailboxqualityIt can easily be said that e-mail has become the single most important communication tool in businesses. Messages can pile up quickly however, taking up storage space that can be expensive to back up. Since deleting everything isn’t always the best course of action, the smartest option is to archive your inbox.

Archiving is simply the process of removing old (but important) e-mails from your “active” inbox and placing them into a compressed, encrypted backup. This frees up space in your inbox and preserves your e-mails in case you need to dig them up at some point in the future. Here are three important reasons why you should archive:
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It is a proven fact that all hard drives will eventually fail. Some will fail prematurely due to manufacturers’ defects while others will fail simply because of wear and tear. The question is: how long until this occurs?

For the last four years, online backup provider Backblaze.com has kept 25,000 consumer-grade hard drives constantly running, keeping a record of whenever a hard drive breaks down. Their results are very interesting. 
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