October, 2011

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Web Seminar Recap: Using the Hidden Powers of Excel

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Deliver more accurate and relevant information reporting and presentations. Learn to start racing with Excel, not just driving it! On Wednesday, October 26th ASPE instructor Dr. Isaac Gottlieb presented the free web seminar “Using the Hidden Powers of Excel.” In this web seminar, Dr. Gottlieb discussed demonstrations of a few unknown Excel tips that can dramatically change the way you use the program and how to find new efficient ways to select data in Excel.

Listen to the recording of it in its entirety by clicking View Event Recordings (at the top right). Learn exciting and insightful facts and tweaks you can use when creating presentation charts that will impress your readers and your presentation audience. Find out how just a few new Excel formatting tips can help save you time without sacrificing accuracy when you create worksheets.

Do you  have a question for Dr. Gottlieb? Leave your comments or tweet us! Follow @ASPE_Inc and use hashtag #ASPEEvents.

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Lessons from the Human-Technology Weave

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

I frequently counsel people about today’s weave of business and technology:  Kick out your technical underpinnings, and you might sustain 5% productivity.  Business and technology are tightly interwoven:  We have a true Business-Technology Weave, with associated enablements, supports, dependencies, and even culture.

But now we must consider a human-technology weave.  The human-technology weave is, among many things, one with heart pumps, artificial knees, and even implants that dispense medicine at regular intervals…we could go on and on.  As another example, we influence the brain and mind with meds – things don’t get much more “human” than that – and that certainly involves technology. Click to continue »

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Data Breach and Legislation: What’s coming your way?

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

It’s rather interesting to monitor what’s happening in the UK right now.  Data protection legislation is moving forward.  And… business there supports data protection legislation.

A survey of 1200 businesses indicates that those businesses are concerned about the strength of laws:  Nearly 50% feel that laws are weak and require revision, and 87% believe that organizations should be required to divulge breaches of sensitive content where information about the public is involved.  [Source:  Sophos]. Click to continue »

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Workplace Privacy

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

According to a recent ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, a former employee’s past company should not have read e-mails that she sent from a private, password-protected, web account.

The employee was using company resources (computer, internet access, and indeed company time), but the Court ruled that she had a reasonable expectation of privacy for the account, being that the company’s policy regarding computer use was that “occasional personal use is permitted.” Click to continue »

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Data Security and Transport

Friday, October 7th, 2011

An interesting thing came to my attention last week when I was using a thumb drive to transport files back and forth between secure environments.  The thumb corrupted.  Fortunately, I only use thumbs for transport (not for primary storage), and I had the files available elsewhere for retrieval.  (For that matter, I was able to repair the thumb and its contents with a utility).

But in relaying my experience to a Fortune 500 IT colleague, and good friend, he recommended something for transport that concerned me – and I believe the concern may apply to a very wide audience.  When he travels for business, he relies on a site called Dropbox.com.  Basic Dropbox services are free:  That is, you can store up to 2 Gb of data for retrieval and swap (larger amounts require a paid account).  However, a quick review of terms reveals this: Click to continue »

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Another Free Gas Winner Chosen – One Chance Left!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

It wasn’t a rumor, ASPE is giving away Free Gas for an entire year! We’re giving three lucky winners a gas card worth $2000. If you have one of those new fangled hybrid cars, that could be enough fuel to last a lifetime! So, if you didn’t believe us before, you better believe us now. Because the second winner has been chosen which means you have only have one chance left!

Congratulations to Joy Toney of Memphis, TN!

An anyone could imagine (if you sign up now you could do more than imagine), Joy was extremely excited to be chosen as ASPE’s second Free Gas winner. Overwhelmed and at a loss for words, she finally managed to respond with the statement, “Cool!”  Thanks Joy, we think it’s pretty cool too.  She also told us she’d be even more excited once she actually got the gas card (we’re sensing a trend here). No worries, Joy! You’re pain at the pump will be over with soon enough!

So if you’re tired of pumping dollar after dollar of your hard earned money into your gas tank, spend ours instead! Register now for a chance to be ASPE’s final Free Gas Winner. The odds are in your favor, you could be next!

FREE GAS!

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Does Your Business Need Mobile

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

The war to capture the mobile market is not new. Many of us are very aware of the evolution of the laptop which started out as a mammoth size PC disguised as a suitcase (and I mean family size suitcase) and ended up as a highly portable, yet functional, computer the size of a notebook. The earliest versions of these mobile computing devises had to accommodate behemoth monitor technology, massive drives for data transfer and storage and of course a keyboard. Over the years the drives and monitors shrank in size. Keyboards became more compact. But the real kicker that makes mobile devices practical today is the ability to store and access data on such a small devise that it can be carried on you to a meeting or business trip with little effort. Click to continue »

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