Compress a PowerPoint 2007 Document

I got a call today from a friend of mine. She was on the road, preparing for a presentation, and the file was too large to upload into Google Docs; Google Docs, it turns out, has a limitation of a 10mb file for conversion. She needed to perform the conversion to complete the presentation to [...]

Career Fair Presentation

Adding a presentation to the Website for tomorrow’s Career Fair held at Jason Lee in Vancouver, WA. http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfx26bt7_1404crgvvvhm R

10 Risks of Cloud Computing

@thescottydont asks on Facebook: “True. However, seems like this video is missing some down sides. I ask you, Guru Mickler – are there down sides to Cloud Computing?” Well, what a great question! And I think that it’s only fair to honestly talk about the downsides to Cloud Computing as a small business strategy. 1. [...]

What is Cloud Computing?

Good YouTube video on what Cloud Computing is…

How Students Can Use Cloud Computing

So I spend a lot of time talking about how small business can leverage cloud computing. Today, let’s talk about how students can leverage cloud computing. The goal here would be to set up a facility to allow students to centralize their mail, files, calendar, voice mail, instant messaging, research, publishing, and collaboration through Google, [...]

Presentation: Information Assurance

A new presentation was added to our website today. This presentation looks at Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication, and Non-Repudiation as policy-level goals for information system security within the Federal Government, referred to as Information Assurance. It also explores the role of the NIST and NSA in developing, deploying, and auditing FIPS standards. Information Assurance | [...]

The Virtual Startup

So two weeks ago, I was invited to help a small startup with five employees with their technology needs.  My job would be to conduct a site review and provide options for networking, phone, security, and data processing systems. Typically, the remedy for this kind of job would be clear: spec out the network cabling [...]