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Wisconsin
Wolves – Madison’s Only Professional Women’s Football
Team.
www.wiwolves.com
May 17 cs. Columbus (Middleton High School – kick-off:
3pm)
Help cheer on #34, Pam Close, Applied Tech’s Senior
Systems Consultant!
May High
Tech Happy Hour – Thursday, May 29, 2008 from.
5:00pm to 7:00pm. Sponsored by Smith & Gesteland.
Located at Capital Brewery in Middleton, WI.
For more info, visit
www.hthh.org
Webinar –
Do Extraordinary Things Every Day with CRM
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 – 10am to 11am (Central)
Today’s competitive business environment requires real
people to do extraordinary things every day. Microsoft
Dynamics CRM offers you innovative ways to access this
powerful relationship management solution to empower
your employees to respond quickly to customer demands
and increase customer satisfaction. We show you how the
productivity of your sales, customer service and
marketing teams can be dramatically increased by
utilizing the enhancements in the newly released
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
Register
here
Webinar –
Outgrown QuickBooks? Learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP can
help!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 – 1pm to 2pm (central)
Are you concerned with the ability of your QuickBooks
software to scale to your changing business needs? Have
you experienced performance or reliability issues as
your business has grown and become more complex? Do you
worry about compliance and the security of your
financial information? If you answered "yes" to any of
these questions, then you do not want to miss this free
webcast!
Register
here
Madison
Area Builders Association’s Parade of Homes - June
7-22, 2008
Visit MABA’s website for more information at
www.maba.org.
FRx Report
Training –
Essentials II
This full-day course is designed to help you gain
complete control of your financial reporting process.
This course is designed for the experienced user who
wants to create a more comprehensive financial and
management reporting package. This Microsoft FRx
Training course covers reports such as statements of
cash flow, consolidating reports, allocations and
reports that include statistical information requiring
advanced calculations. Also covered are topics such as
importing amounts from Excel, advanced formatting
options, effective dates and relational reporting.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
8:30am to 4:30pm
Breakfast & lunch provided.
Cost: $399 per person ($1200 value)
Call Julie Vike to register – 608.257.6051 x23
Restoring
Hope fundraiser night with the Madison Mallards
June 17, 2008 – 7:05pm vs.
Eau Claire Express
Help support the
Restoring Hope Transplant House open its doors to
patients in need of a “home away from home” for organ,
bone marrow and other transplant surgerys.
Click for details
Applied
Tech Open House
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Save the Date for Applied Tech’s Open House featuring
the 42-foot Microsoft Across America truck! Food, fun,
networking, tours and prizes. Watch for more details!
Did You Know...
 You
can preview an attachment in Outlook before you open it
(Office 2007 only). When you receive an attachment in a
message and want to quickly see what the attachment
contains without opening it, you can preview the
attachment in the Reading Pane.
Just select the message
that has the attachment, and in the Reading Pane, click
the attachment once (not twice, which will open it). The
content of the attachment, whether it's a document, a
presentation, an image, or whatever, will appear in the
Reading Pane.
Is there
anything you'd like
to
see in the BrainBank?
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News
from Home front
 Exciting
things are happening at Applied Tech and we are so excited to share
them with you!
Applied
Tech is pleased to announce that we are one of 10 companies chosen
to receive the 2008 Dane County Small Business Award.
The DCSBA celebrates
small businesses and the contributions they make to our communities
and economy. The 2008 awards breakfast will be held Friday, June 13,
2008 at the Sheraton Madison Hotel. For more information or to
register to attend,
click here.
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New hire
Doug Orlofske joined Applied Tech on April 2, 2008 as a
Senior Systems Specialist. Prior to Applied Tech, Doug was a
Senior Network Administrator at Marshall Erdman &
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Congratulations to Ahren Groshek of Applied Tech for
passing his Microsoft Small Business Server Exam. Ahren is
now a Small Business Specialist along with technicians Kris
Cears, Tim Barrett and Scott Drost |
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webinar “Have you outgrown your QuickBooks accounting
software”? You can request a free QuickBooks Replacer Kit
from Microsoft Dynamics GP and learn how easy and affordable
it is to replace your current accounting software. Request
yours
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Congratulations
to Pautsch Database Services for being the winner of a copy
of Office 2007 from Applied Tech at the Server 2008 Launch Expo in
Madison on April 17, 2008 and to O&H Danish Bakery for
winning a copy of Windows Vista from Applied Tech at the 2008
Manufacturing Matters Expo in Milwaukee on April 23, 2008.
Applied
Tech will be giving away sunscreen-filled golf balls at the
Portage County Business Council’s “Business on the Green” golf
outing on June 2, 2008 and at the
Madison Area Builders
Association’s annual golf outing on July 9, 2008. Click on the
links to register for a fun-filled day of golf!
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SAVE THE
DATE! Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 3pm to 7pm. Join
Applied Tech for our Open House that will feature
drinks, food, tours, networking, fun and the 42-foot
Microsoft truck. Experience the latest technology
first-hand! This event will be held in conjunction with
the Madison Area Builders Association’s “Business After
Hours” networking event. |
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It's Not Easy Being Green!
Written by: David Tan, CTO
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Traditionally, standard
business practice for Information Technology has dictated that the
primary focus of IT decisions and initiatives is based on the
economic impact and viability. In other words, how much will it
cost, and how much will it save me over time, and when will I recoup
my investment. This mindset has started to change drastically in the
last year or so, as companies adopt a Green IT mentality, and start
to consider not only the economic impact of their decisions, but the
environmental and social as well. The problem is, for IT, it’s not
easy being green. |
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Employee Profile - Julie Vike
Julie Vike, Applied Tech’s
Marketing and Business Development Manager, handles all of the
marketing efforts including event planning (seminars, special
events, expo’s, promotions) and focuses on relationship development
with new business.
Julie also is an
Associate Director for the Madison Area Builders Association (MABA),
a responsibility she greets with enthusiasm and dedication.
No stranger to
volunteer work, Julie also donates pro bono marketing and PR ideas
to the Restoring Hope Transplant house, is a school volunteer,
organizer of the annual adopt-a-family for the holidays, serves on
the Programs Committee for MABA, and often the first to raise her
hand to help out where needed. |
Julie Vike
Marketing & Business Development Manager |
Julie lives in McFarland with her son, Corey, and the family cat,
Daisy. Julie is often found at the karate studio that her son
attends or in the kitchen baking treats for her co-workers or son’s
classroom.When
asked for a piece of information about her that might surprise
people, Julie said that she and her son collect PEZ dispensers. With
a collection of more than 200 dispensers, her favorites are the
vintage Looney Tunes she’s found over the years. |
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Watch What You Install On Your
Server
by Christopher Elliott
reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
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Download
warning: Watch what you install on your server.
Today's server
operating systems, including Microsoft Small Business Server 2003,
are so user-friendly that you could be left with the impression that
anyone with the ability to put a CD into a computer disk drive could
successfully deploy a new application.
That is the wrong
impression.
Read more
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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.
Diane asks:
“Is it possible to program a function key with a phrase or signature?
Do you have a process that you could share with me on this?
Click
for answer
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In the News. . .
by Julie Vike
After seven
months of invite-only beta,
Xobni
is now publicly available for anyone to download for
free. Xobni is a plug-in to Outlook that helps you
organize your flooded inbox.
By creating
profiles for each person that emails you, the profile
contains relationship statistics, contact information,
social connections, threaded conversations, and shared
attachments for quick retrieval.
For more
information about Xobni (‘inbox’ spelled backwards and
pronounced zob-nee), visit
their
website or read more from the
New York Times. |
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The trouble
with learning from experience is that you never
graduate.
-Doug Larson |
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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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