Special delivery for your documents
Too many accountants are using the body of emails to deliver information instead of using the attachment function. By: Dwayne Bragonier, published in CPA Magazine, April 1, 2014 More and more, we are delivering our finished goods electronically via email. That’s OK, as long as the expertise being shared — the interpretation of data, presentation of […]
Write Better Cold Emails So You Get a Response
How effective are your emails? I’ve been using the advice in this Lifehacker article for a few months now, so I thought I’d share it. It’s easy to follow and implement, and just plain makes sense. In this context, a “cold email” is any email to someone you don’t know well, in which you’re asking […]
Preparing – mentally and emotionally – for a new PC
With the rapidly approaching end of support for Windows XP, we’ve been upgrading many of our clients to new computers with Windows 7. No matter how many times we do it, no matter how quickly it gets done, and no matter how smooth the process, it’s always a little traumatic for the user. Igor, one […]
Why you need 2-step authentication, and how to enable it
My wife and I woke up this morning to find an email from a good friend of ours, sent at 3:09AM, with the subject: URGENT! Needless to say, we were worried. This is what the email said: Am so sorry to bother you, am in a terrible situation right now and will need your urgent help. […]
10 Top Password and Cyber Security Tips for Every Small Business
As a small business you might be thinking, “this only happens to the big companies with LOTS of information”. You’re wrong. Small Biz Technology had a great post last week about cyber security for small businesses. It was short and to-the-point, so I won’t repeat the whole thing here, but I’ll try to summarize it […]
L’infonuagique : les avantages et les risques
L’infonuagique désigne les opérations informatiques effectuées grâce à des services fournis entièrement par Internet (le « nuage »). Ces services comprennent aussi bien le courriel sur le Web que le réseautage social, les progiciels complets ou les services de stockage de données. Bien que les avantages de l’infonuagique soient évidents, elle pose des risques au niveau juridique […]