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Free Webinar: How Effective is Your BC Plan? Be
Informed!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
1pm to 2pm (central)
Registration required.
Free Webinar: Give Back! Easy Steps to Help Prepare
Your Community
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
1pm to 2pm (central)
Registration required.
September High Tech
Happy Hour
Thursday, September 25, 2008
5pm to 7pm
Sponsored by
Heartland Credit Union. Event hosted at
Pooley’s at 5441 High Crossing Blvd – Madison.
Visit
www.hthh.org for more information or to sign
up for reminders of future events.
Free seminar: Take a Byte Out of Energy Costs
Join Applied Tech and
Focus on Energy, Wisconsin's energy efficiency and
renewable energy initiative, for an informational
seminar on how to reduce your business' energy costs,
leverage financial incentives to help offset costs of
energy projects, and steps every business can take to
reduce their energy use. Also learn about the
Green IT Makeover Contest and how your business
could win $25,000 in equipment and services!
Two days available, limit 10 per session.
Lunch will be provided
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Register for October 1st
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 – 11:30am to 1:00pm
Register for October 8th
203 S. Paterson Street, Ste 500 – Madison, WI
Deadline for Green IT applications!
Friday, October 17, 2008 – 4pm
Remember to submit your application for the Green IT
Makeover Contest! Download the application
now!
In
the News. . .
by Julie Vike |
Sex scandal email spam targeting US Presidential
Election - We have been alerted that there is an
email spam campaign which uses the US presidential
election as a social engineering mechanism to install
malicious software on your PC. Emails are circulating
with fake news of a sex scandal affecting one of the
candidates. Recipients of the email are encouraged to
view a video supposedly involving one of the candidates.
Users who click the link are shown a pornographic video.
While the video plays for 14 seconds, malicious
applications are installed on the person's PC.
What makes this extra dangerous is that today Microsoft
will be announcing a patch for a vulnerability in media
player. So if you click on the link the attacker can
potentially take advantage of an existing vulnerability
that you are not protected against.
Attackers often use major events such as the Olympics,
elections, disasters to try to catch people off guard
and encourage them to click on links to download hostile
software. Once they have control of your PC they can
steal your personally identifiable information to get
access to your critical accounts or commit ID theft. The
link may look like you are going to USAToday.com but in
reality the link takes you to a hostile site that just
looks like USAToday. For the example above if you wanted
to verify if there was a sex scandal going on you should
go directly to USAToday, CNN or MSNBC (for example) by
typing CNN.com directly in your browser. If there was a
sex scandal involving one of the candidates it will be
posted on the major news sites.
Now is the time to start thinking about how your company
can take advantage of the Section 179 tax deduction!
Purchase new computer equipment for your office and
write off the full purchase price from your gross
income. Read more at
www.section179.org.
What
our Customers
are Saying. . . |
Congratulations to
you all on the 2008 Dane County Small Business Award!!
You have always done a
great job at keeping our computers and phones “up and
running.” In addition, your friendly, knowledgeable
staff continues to respond quickly to our needs and
takes the time to answer even the most basic questions
we seem to have. Keep up the great work everyone—this is
a well deserved award indeed!!
Ann Bradley, CVT
Practice Manager
Cat Care Clinic
Providing Expert Care
For Cats
And The People Who Love Them
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Don’t wait much longer! Apply Today!
Applied Tech
and its sponsors announced a Green IT Makeover contest
for Wisconsin-based businesses. Businesses are
encouraged to apply for a chance to win
environmentally-friendly products and services from
Applied Tech, Focus on Energy, Microsoft,
Hewlett-Packard, WatchGuard and others. The Grand
Prize Package is valued at over $25,000.
With increased
interest in purchasing environmentally-friendly
products, recycling, and reducing energy use, drive
times and CO2 emissions, Applied Tech and their partners
will help a local business adopt 'green' IT practices
and improve energy efficiency at their facility. The
winner can look forward to utilizing terminal services,
a feature that allows a user to access applications and
data on a remote computer over a network. A savings of
71 miles can prevent 63 pounds of CO2 emissions being
released into the atmosphere.
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"Focus on Energy, Wisconsin's energy
efficiency and renewable energy initiative,
is excited to partner with Applied Tech on
their Green IT Makeover contest," said Ken
Williams, business programs director for
Focus on Energy. "This joint effort will
help a local business reduce energy use,
improve efficiency of their business and
ultimately improve their bottom line." |
Eligible
applicants must be Wisconsin-based with a minimum of ten
employees and ten computers. Applications must be
received by October 17, 2008 and the winner will be
notified by the end of November. For more information,
including official rules and conditions, and to download
an application, visit Applied Tech's Web site at
www.appliedtech.us/GreenIT.
For further
information, please contact Julie Vike at 608-257-6051
x23 or Toll Free at 866-933-7471 x23. You can also
request information by emailing:
vike@appliedtech.us.
The Green IT
Makeover Contest is sponsored by:
Applied Tech,
The Capital Region Business Journal and
Focus on Energy.
Contributing
supporters include:
Microsoft, WatchGuard, Hewlett-Packard, & MeGoGreen
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Every year, hundreds of
natural disasters – ranging from blizzards and wildfires to
hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding – wreak havoc on families,
businesses and entire communities across America. However, the vast
majority of “disasters” are everyday events that can have a
crippling effect on your business: a faulty server, a broker water
pipe, cut phone lines, long-term power outages. Oftentimes, people
are reminded to take action and prepare before these events happen,
but sometimes they occur without warning.
Agility Recovery
Solutions, an endorsed partner of Applied Tech, is taking part in
National Preparedness Month, a nationwide initiative sponsored
by the Department of Homeland Security, to encourage individuals and
businesses to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies.
The goal of National
Preparedness Month is to increase public awareness about the
importance of preparation and encourage individuals and businesses
to take action. Applied Tech invites all to join this effort.
Agility is sponsoring
free Webinars every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. CST during September
to help businesses prepare for any emergency. Click on the links
below to register:
How Effective is
Your BC Plan? Be Informed!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 – 1pm central
| An annual
table-top exercise is an easy, affordable way to
validate your recovery plan. Learn some best practices
for completing your recovery plan simulation.
Registration Required. |
Give Back! Easy Steps to Help Prepare Your Community.
Wednesday,
September 24, 2008 – 1pm central
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you can give back and help others better prepare our
communities. Included will be some helpful tips to
increase your involvement.
Registration Required. |
We hope that you will
take the time to join the online seminars and begin or improve your
business continuity plan. If you need help in developing a family
emergency plan, free preparedness resources are just a click away at
www.ready.gov or
www.listo.gov .
These sites have information about simple steps you can take to
prepare and provide templates such as a Family Emergency Plan and an
Emergency Supply Checklist. There is also a special section just for
kids, ages 8-12, Ready Kids. |
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Downtown Madison's New Faces, New Places = success!
On
Thursday, September 11, 2008, Applied Tech hosted a successful New
Faces, New Places event at our Madison office. Guests were treated
to tours of our unique office space created with repurposed
materials, food from Market Street Catering and Confections, and
socializing with Madison’s leaders. |
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Applied Tech welcomes new Systems Specialist,
Noah Donaldson!
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Applied Tech is pleased to announce our newest
hire, Noah Donaldson. Noah began at Applied Tech
on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 as a Systems
Specialist.
Noah will provide help desk support and server
installations alongside our Network Operations
Center staff. As a previous Network Engineer
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Noah Donaldson
Systems Specialist |
Noah comes
to Applied Tech with an extensive record of
certifications including the Microsoft Certified Desk
Top Support Technician (MCDST) and the Microsoft
Certified Professional (MCP) certification. Noah is also
working on the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
(MCSA) certification.
Noah can be
reached at 608.257.6051 x19 or at
Donaldson@appliedtech.us. |
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Downtown
Madison Becoming Information
Technology Haven
By Joe Vanden
Plas. Madison, Wis.
Don't look
now, but biotech might not be Madison's only
technological identity, and its emerging information
technology image is being shaped in the heart of town.
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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
leaders 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.
Colleen
asks:
“How can I create templates in Word, such as letter
head, that I can reuse?”
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The whole purpose of education is to turn
mirrors into windows.
-Sydney J. Harris |
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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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