NEWS FROM THE EDGE

Tech Tips and Advice from the Experts at Dynamic Edge

Week of Customer Celebration!

Cornbread MuffinsThe celebration of Dynamic Edge customers started on Saturday with dinner at Miro District, one of my favorite places for a drink in Nashville.

Yes, we do provide Miro District’s computer and server support as well as all of their website deign. But did you know that we also give them feedback on their martini and wine selection?

Back to Michigan on Monday and found that Debra made Jiffy Cornbread Muffins for the team! Tasty. We provide all of the web design and database programming for their website. (and we are getting ready to release an update!)
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Excel: Pivot Tables Save Time!

Before I get started about how to make a Pivot Table, you may want to know why you’d use it. Here are some a few of the most common reasons people use the Pivot Table:

  • It can be easier than working with complicated formulas.
  • You can summarizing rows of unreadable data into a chart you can use.
  • Perfect for tracking product sales by location, customer demographics, etc.
  • You can impress your boss, co-workers, or statistically-inclined friends with a informative and efficient reports.

Now, what you’ve been waiting for! Here’s how you make and use Excel’s Pivot Table function.
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Dial one number to get computer support

From Network Slowness to Disaster Recovery, these are the top problems we see in businesses with 5 or more computers and what YOU can do to prevent and solve them.

In this one hour workshop, Bruce will talk about the problems businesses face with their computer systems and what you can do to keep them from becoming outages, data loss, or security threats. Bruce, along with a team of professional consultants at Dynamic Edge, has spent the last 10 years working with company’s ranging from 5 users all the way up to Fortune 500. He is ready to help you make your computers into a tool, rather than a burden. You will leave this workshop armed with a plan to make sure your computers are working correctly and a worksheet outlining the steps you as a business owner need to take to protect your most valuable asset: your company’s data.
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Is Your Business at Risk?

We just did a workshop on the 12 biggest mistakes we see businesses making with their computer systems for the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce. Over 23 businesses signed up to attend! Due to the positive feedback we received, we decided to do another workshop for the Farmington / Farmington Hills Chamber of Commerce. You will leave this workshop with a clear list of items that you can go back to your office / company and do to protect your business. This workshop is designed for businesses with 5 or more computers and a server.
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3rd Annual Tech Grants: Coming Soon!

We are preparing for the 2009 Tech Grant program. In this program we help non-profit organizations with a technology project that they don’t have the resources to do themselves. Here’s a video that I came across as I was getting prepared for the big event, it was taken a couple years ago and it is all about Dynamic Edge’s philosophy toward giving back to the community.
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Dynamic Edge, a Great Place to work?

Yep, the jury is in! We are officially a great place to work. After a grueling selection process that included interviews, employee surveys and a written application, Dynamic Edge was selected as one of the 2009 Sloan Award winners in the category of workplace flexibility.

Here’s a little video out on YouTube of our office from a few years ago, it pretty much sums up why they selected Dynamic Edge for this award:
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