Archive for the ‘data tools’ Category
What’s Your Disaster Plan?
You probably don’t think about what will happen if a disaster should hit, because the likelihood of that disaster hitting is probably low. I’m not talking about a meteor striking Earth or anything far-fetched. But what if you were to lose power for days on end? As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in a coffee [...]
5 Signs You’ve Outgrown Outlook
I was recently asked to do a presentation on using Microsoft Outlook to manage your business. Normally I’d push back and say “but you can’t effectively manage your business just using Outlook”. In preparing, I really thought about how a start-up business can survive on Outlook, as long as they knew some of the different [...]
Sending Holiday Cards Without the Headaches
(This article was originally published in IT Radix‘s newsletter “IT Radix Resource” in the Fall 2010 issue) We all know the holiday season is coming, but time seems to escape us, and then it’s time to scramble! And when your systems are not organized the way you’d like them to be, it makes the task [...]
Consistency is Key
When it comes to your data, consistency is key. If you are trying to maintain all of your information in one centralized database, whether you’re the only user of the database, or you are sharing it with many other users, having ways to maintain consistency is very important. And there are easy ways to do [...]
Saved by an add-on tool – Part 2
Not only is it difficult to get data out of Outlook for contacts, but it is equally as difficult to get your complete data back into Outlook contacts! The import tool that is a part of Outlook software does not allow you to pull in all fields, such as File As! I find this disturbing. [...]