NEWS FROM THE EDGE

Tech Tips and Advice from the Experts at Dynamic Edge

What Exactly is Cloud Computing?

Cloud ComputingCloud computing is a concept that could save your business quite a bit of money on software, hardware, upgrades, and services.

Rather than purchasing hardware and software for your office, you can use cloud computing to put your programs on a highly secure “super server” online. All you need is an Internet connection to your office and you’re in business.

There’s a good chance that most of the software applications you use every day are now “software as a service” applications. In other words, you don’t have to install them on your server or PC – you simply access the software as a pay-as-you-go model for only the licenses, space, and features you use. This gives you the ability to access highly sophisticated software and functionality at a fraction of the cost – or even for free – and without long-term commitments.
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Are you wasting time trying to find your favorite features in the latest version of Microsoft Word? Not sure what a footer is or why you might use one? Looking for more ways to collaborate?  Want to create a table-of-contents that automatically updates?

We’ve learned that the key to maximizing productivity with Word is simple: know what is available and where to find it.  During this FREE one-hour webinar, I will share tips, short cuts and time savers to help you work more effectively in Word 2013.
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one_world_many_storiesRecently, Dynamic Edge celebrated 15 years of existence. That is 15 years of helping businesses by eliminating computer problems. Does that alone make a great company? Not necessarily. What else have we done, you ask? Lots.

Since 1999, we’ve donated over $250,000 worth of technology services to great nonprofits through our Technology Grant program. These organizations work through education, literacy programs, increased graduation rates, and providing a safe haven.

Here are a few organizations we have donated our time, technology, and passion to over the last 15 years:
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Knock Down Walls!

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To be successful in today’s business world, companies need to demolish the figurative walls that prevent the flow of communication. With the walls gone, information can permeate the organization.

Such organizations find it easier to achieve the “Four F’s” that management expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter tells us are essential to business success. According to Kanter, a successful company must be focused, flexible, fast, and friendly.
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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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