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Free Webinar: Achieve Your Goals through Cloud Computing

• Is your organization struggling with network infrastructure management?
• Maybe you've outgrown your server room, or you're no longer able to support your physical infrastructure.
• Or maybe you simply can't afford it any longer. It takes so much staff time, and constant maintenance.

If you're wondering whether cloud computing is an option for you, we invite you to a free webinar featuring a real-life case study of an association that actually moved their network infrastructure to the cloud.

Join Brian Sheehan of DelCor and Eric Hill of Enterprise Wireless Alliance for a free webinar on Tuesday, May 22, at 2:00 pm Eastern. Here's what you'll get:

1. Hear directly from an association that moved into the cloud.
2. Learn what makes the cloud always on, always secure.
3. Discover the Top 5 Things you didn't know about the cloud.

Register now for "Progress in the Cloud: How associations & nonprofits can achieve mission success by moving to the cloud"

Purple, Snoopy, and your middle name are NOT good passwords

Please educate your organization's staff members about strong passwords.  As highlighted by this New York Times article, strong passwords have become even more crucial with the growing use of online applications such as Facebook and Google Apps.  This article from Microsoft is a great place to start when considering your password and your organization's password policy.

Technology is even more pervasive than we think…

After a morning of skiing with the family, I pulled in to a McDonald's drive through a little west of Frederick, Maryland.  Everything seemed normal as I moved up to the ordering station and was greeted by a friendly voice.  Having attempted to collect everyone’s order (family of 5), I spoke into the microphone giving the person each order as I thought it was originally given to me, but then preceded to change it several times to match the correct order that was yelled from the back of the car.  All the time this is going on, I’m thinking to myself, this poor person probably can barely hear me, is having to change and then re-change the order, the odds are growing exponentially that a pink lemonade will end up with the Happy Meal instead of a Sprite and a mutiny will ensue.  As I finished ordering and pulled up to the window to pay, I joked with the lady and explaining how terribly sorry I was for all the confusion and noise while ordering and wouldn't hold it against her if we got an empty bag.  She politely replied, she didn’t hear a thing and explained all of the orders go over an IP network to a call center in Huston, TX were someone inputs then into a computer and it shows up on the monitor in the McDonald's west of Frederick, Maryland. Truly an amazing application of technology.