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Go Mobile!
Using Microsoft Mobile Solutions to Keep Your Business
on the Move!
Wednesday,
March 26, 2008
Join
Applied Tech to discover how Microsoft technologies can
help enable you to better support your increasingly
mobile workforce. With Microsoft Windows Mobile
solutions, your business will have the tools,
technologies, and platform to more effectively
communicate, collaborate, and work on the go.
Wednesday,
March 26, 2008
11:30am to 1pm
Lunch provided. No cost.
Applied Tech office
203 S. Paterson Street,
Ste 500 – Madison
Register today!
March’s
High Tech Happy Hour
Thursday,
March 27, 2009 from. 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Sponsored by T.
Wall Properties and located at Boston's Gourmet Pizza
8420 Market Street, Middleton, WI
For more info, visit
www.hthh.org
Server
2008 Launch Celebration
Thursday,
April 17, 2008 - Celebrate the launch of Windows Server
2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Madison
Marriott West – 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive, Middleton.
Register online
here.
Manufacturing Matters 2008!
Wednesday,
April 23, 2008 - Applied Tech is a proud sponsor of the
Manufacturing Matters conference. Manufacturing Matters!
is the only conference targeted specifically to the
needs of small to midsize Wisconsin manufacturers. For
more information
click here.
Windows SharePoint
Thursday,
April 25, 2008
If you have heard of SharePoint and want to understand
its functionality and benefits, you don’t want to miss
this seminar. Applied Tech’s Tim Barrett will lead this
discussion in collaborative workspaces.
Thursday,
April 25, 2008
11:30 to 1:00pm
Lunch provided. No cost.
Applied Tech office
203 S. Paterson Street,
Ste 500 - Madison.
Register today!
FRx Training (Basic & Advanced) for Great Plains (GP)
Users
Multiple
Dates: TBD
Microsoft FRx works with a variety of general
ledgers—including Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains—to
help you get specific reports to decision makers who
need them, when they need them. Its financial analysis
capabilities can help boost business intelligence across
your company. Find out how.
Applied Tech office—203 S. Paterson Street, Ste 500,
Madison
Limit 10 per session. 4-hour sessions. Fee-based.
For more information, contact Julie Vike at 608.257.6051
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Did You Know...
 You
can add Holidays to your Outlook Calendar by starting at
the Tools menu, click Options, and then
click Calendar Options. Under Calendar Options,
click Add Holidays. You can choose which
county/region whose holidays you want to add to your
calendar, and then click
OK
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Business Solutions Seminar & Technology Expo Recap
Thank you to all the
attendees who joined Applied Tech for the inaugural Business
Solutions Seminar on February 27, 2008 at the Monona Terrace. Guests
enjoyed our keynote speaker, Donald Nichols, talk about the economic
forecast for Wisconsin, seven different tech-related seminars lead
by guest and staff speakers, meeting with our technology partners
during the Technology Expo and ending the day with a cocktail
reception where several great prizes were awarded. |
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Connect People, Information & Processes
With a SharePoint Starter Site
By Jane Cage, HTS COO
Everyone can agree – there is not a
business around that wouldn’t benefit from better processes and shared
information. SharePoint, a Microsoft product designed for networks running
Windows Server, is a web-based application that enables anywhere-access for
individuals or groups who are working together on projects. Team members can
share files, calendars, contacts and secure information through a browser
anywhere they have web access. Read below for answers to some of the basic
questions surrounding this great application.
“How could YOU use SharePoint?” |
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Employee Profile - Ahren Groshek
Ahren is Applied
Tech’s newest Systems Specialist at Applied Tech. Ahren,
along with Jim Oliva, works with our clients out of our
Stevens Point office and is also part of our Network
Operation Center assisting with help desk calls. Before
joining Applied Tech, Ahren worked for RMM Solutions in
Wausau, WI and the Central Wisconsin Wireless Internet
Service in Amherst, WI.
During Ahren’s
days at Fox Valley Technical College, his academic focus was
in Computing & Information Services (CIS Networking) and
hardware/software. Today, Ahren’s enthusiasm to continue his
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Ahren Groshek
Systems Specialist |
He is currently reading
“Microsoft Small Business Specialist” and is looking forward to
earning as many IT certifications as possible to become a
self-proclaimed “Mr. Know-it-all”.
Ahren is happily
married to Mary Groshek. He enjoys farming, football, baseball,
darts and working on home projects. The family dog, Shady, is often
found curled up with Ahren when watching his favorite shows,
Seinfeld, ESPN SportsCenter and CSI-Miami. |
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ASK SPARKY!
Do you have an IT question
or concern that you’ve been hung up on? Now’s your chance to “Ask
Sparky”! Sparky is what we loving call our company logo.
Sparky is our fearless leader who encompasses all that is IT.
Applied Tech works hard at keeping IT as pain-free as possible and
Sparky is with us every step of the way! Send your IT questions to
Sparky at
sparky@appliedtech.us.
Paula asks::
I know I can share my Outlook calendar with internal staff, but am I
able to share with it with people outside the office, too? We just
upgraded to Office 2007.
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for answer
Abby
asks:
Who answers “Ask Sparky”?
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6 Tips for a 'Paperless' Office
by Joseph Anthony
reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
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Many people who use computers —
whether it's for their home or business — are moving toward a "paperless"
office. Simply, they are tired and overwhelmed by scraps of paper, clunky old
file folders, envelopes — and they want to reduce the clutter.
Don't believe me? Take a look at how
many messages are stored in your e-mail's in-basket. Now imagine how much paper
would have been generated if they hadn't come to you from cyberspace.
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In the News. .
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by Julie Vike
Microsoft
giveaway. Office Live Workspace, a Web hub for document
sharing, was first announced late last year. Starting
the week of March 10, 2008, anyone can sign up to store
word processing documents, spreadsheets and other files
in a Live Workspace of his or her own. Users can share
access to the files with friends, who can use a Web
browser to read them and make comments. Live Workspace
can be a great solution for school, home and work.
Small
offices with just a handful of employees can use Office
Live Workspace to organize shared documents that
can be accessed from any computer with internet
connection.
To more
information or to sign up for this free offer, visit
www.officelive.com
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World's
Largest
Trivia Contest
Applied Tech is proud to be
a sponsor of “The World’s Largest Trivia Contest” in
Stevens Point. The trivia contest is held each year in
April and is hosted by the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point as a fundraiser for the
university's radio station 90FM WWSP. Long time
announcer, Jim Oliva, better known as “The Oz”, is not
only a key employee of Applied Tech (formally Mom’s
Computers), Oz is also the annual announcer of this
event. The Oz announced that this year's trivia theme is
“The Trivia Invasion”.
For more information, visit
http://www.90fmtrivia.org/
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Opportunities
are usually disguised as hard work, so most
people don't recognize them.
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Madison Office
Applied Tech
Solutions, Inc.
203 South Paterson Street,
Suite 500
Madison, WI 53703
Ph: 608.257.6051
info@appliedtech.us
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Stevens Point Office
Applied Tech
Solutions, Inc.
1313 Second Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Ph: 715.344.3703
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