December 2011
In this issue
►Letter from the President
►Personal Device Management
►Why, Why, Why, Why, Why?
►Video and Audio Files
►Business Continuity Tip
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Business Continuity Tip
A Chilling Forecast
Winter is right around the corner and with it comes ice storms, blizzards, and other cold weather threats. Preparing your organization before a winter storm hits can help you protect your employees, minimize damage, and lead to a speedy recovery.
Don't let a cold and snowy winter interrupt your ability to do business. How can you prepare?
Download the Winter Weather Preparedness Checklist.
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Laugh a Little
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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
- Dave Barry
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Letter from the President
Tim Rettig
Crowdsourcing My Wife’s Birthday for Charity
 December 21st, 2011 was my wife Mary’s 40th birthday. Being the great person that she is, she chose to donate her birthday tocharity:water, our favorite charity.
Normally, when you donate your birthday to charity:water you have a party and people make donations instead of bringing gifts. Without the party, the whole donations in lieu of gifts wasn’t going to work. So, what I did was surprise Mary with a special “virtual online party” by using social media and crowdsourcing.
For the week leading up to her birthday I posted videos and pictures on her Facebook wall. Those videos and photos were produced all over the world by all kinds of different people that I interacted with via crowdsourcing tools. Mary had no idea who the people were in the videos, or how I got all of them to wish her happy birthday.
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Personal Device Management
by Ed Correia, President & CEO, Sagacent Technologies, Inc.
 Looking back over my last three decades in computers (actually 34 years now), technology has come a very long way and changed a lot. I saw the introduction of the personal computer, the very first computer networks, email, the dawn of the Internet, only very recently Cloud computing – and now tons of personal mobile devices.
And these new personal devices are now making their way into nearly every business environment in a multitude of ways, but most concerningly as: USB memory sticks or jump drives, smart phones, laptops and tablet computers. These personally purchased and unmanaged devices are becoming integrated into business environments that already had business-purchased and securely managed laptops, smart phones and tablet PCs. In fact, many businesses are now encouraging their employees to BYOD – or Bring Your Own Device.
So now the business networks that we care for are quickly becoming networks of previously un-imanageable complexity. The world of technology is clearly changing again and my business must change too – and find solutions fast!
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Why, Why, Why, Why, Why?
by Laura Steward Atchison, www.lauraatchison.com
 If you are the parent of a five year old you probably feel that is the worst word in the English language. If you are feeling depressed you might use that word to say “why me?” If you are an entrepreneur, you love that word because it lets you ask the questions, “Why do we have to do it that way? What can’t we do it differently and get a different result?” Depending on your perspective, the word evokes very different emotions.
I drove my parents crazy from an early age because I always wanted to know why something was the way it was. Why do we have to do it that way? Why is the sky blue? Why is it called a chair? Why can’t I do that? You get the drift. When they didn’t have the answer, they made me research it and then tell them what I had found out. This ended up being great training for me and developed my lifelong love of reading, research, learning and questioning.
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