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Can exceptional service come back and haunt you later?

Can exceptional service come back and haunt you later?

Several years ago, I suffered a plague of my own creation. We had pampered the employee base with such great service, they had taken our exceptional service level as the new base, or minimum, level of support. Employee “requests” became “demands” and my staff was being pushed around. What started out as a grand plan had became a support nightmare. I wanted to build the best IT support group the world had ever known; one they would write songs about. We implemented many changes…

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Its Alive!

Its Alive!

My computer is alive once again! Yea! Tip: Most computer operating system instability problems can be solved by formatting the “C” drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. It sucks, and very time consuming, but it does work miracles. Oh ya, be sure everything is backed up before you format your drive! I have been using iBackup to backup my personal computers over the Internet to their data center. They are not the cheapest, I pay about $350 a year for one of the…

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What is the future of communication?

What is the future of communication?

My rant from Yesterday made me think about the future of communications. Currently, we have e-mail, SMS and IM as the three dominate forms of non-spoken electronic communication. I poked around the Net and landed on a press release from Gartner about the mobile messaging market. The numbers blew me away. They estimate mobile messages will exceed 2 trillion messages in 2008. This is close to a 20% increase from 2007 levels. I did not find estimates, from sources I…

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Do Not Piss the IT Guy Off!

Do Not Piss the IT Guy Off!

The story below is disappointing but true. I do not think that most people have any clue exactly how much access the IT (Information Technology) group has to information and the absolute control they can exert over it. The more senior the person the more serious the threat. IT Admin Locks Up San Francisco’s Network By Jeremy Kirk July 15, 2008 — IDG News Service — A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco…

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