Join us January 22nd to find out about Windows 7 and new cloud services from Microsoft!

January 22, 2010
11:30am-1:00pm

Our team has been playing with Windows 7 for months now and we want to tell you what we like and don’t like about it.

Special coverage of Microsoft Hosted Office applications will also be included. See how these cloud-based services may be able to save you money while giving you access to enterprise-level software!

Click here to Register or call
Courtney at (800) 481-4369

Happy Holidays to All!

Well, by now most of the holiday hustle and bustle is over. I know we still have New Years Day to look forward for most of us, things will slow down between now and New Years Day.

At my house, I had the wonderful privilege of hosting both of my children and my parents for Christmas Day. What a great way to spend the holidays! Sharing stories, football scores, Christmas toys, nice food and drink, and especially the love of my family. What more could one ask for?

Talk about busy . . . We have been really busy this year end. It seems like this year there has been a lot more last minute meetings and projects. I am thankful for this as well. Many associates in the IT Services world have slowed or stopped this year. We have been lucky to continue adding services and clients to our portfolio. I have tried very hard to increase our value to our customers even when it seems the financial impact is too much to overcome. We keep trying…I know if I make us better for you, we will all benefit in the long run.

I am extremely excited about the New Year. In January we are hosting our first lunch and learn at our new Riverside Office. For those of you in the Riverside, Corona, and San Bernardino area, come on over and enjoy a free lunch in a very nice conference room and learn about the benefits of Windows 7 and other Microsoft Hosted Applications. We have had two Very Successful Windows 7 meetings at our Rancho Office in November and December so if you could not make it to Rancho Cucamonga, join us in Riverside on the 22nd of January.

Have a GREAT New Year

Marty

Most of us use search engines every day, but few know how to make the most of those searches. Given the enormous amount of information on the Internet, almost any search you do will yield thousands, or even millions of results. But if they aren’t the right results, they don’t do you any good. And who has time to spend trawling through loads of “sort of useful” information?

Fortunately, there are a few tricks to help you better focus your searches so you get the information you need in less time. Here are five search engine best practices to try next time you need to search.

1. Use quotes to find a specific phrase
In order to find an entire phrase in a search, enter quotation marks (“ ”) around the terms. For example, the search query butter apples orange will yield results containing any mention of those words, whereas “butter apples orange” returns only results where those words appear together and in that order in either the title, the URL of the website or the keywords in the document.

2. Use + or – for more targeted word searches
Adding the plus sign (+) or the word AND before a word will require that it be found in all of the search results. Conversely, the minus sign (–) before a word, or the word NOT, requires that it not be found in the search results.

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Signs of a possible upturn are reenergizing businesses. However, this recession isn’t ending in a sharp economic upturn.

“We know that the fall has stopped, but we are not yet sure whether the economy is going to grow again fast,” said Olivier Chatain, assistant professor of management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Because consumers have lost money and are still worried about their jobs, “it’s not clear that demand will bounce back very fast.”

The hopeful outlook is overshadowed by a projected slow recovery riddled by ups and downs. So, businesses are struggling to adapt to a new normal: uncertainty. Experts offer advice in three key areas for operating in a hopeful, but uncertain, economy.

1. Staff up strategically
As business improves, consider hiring again–carefully.

“You can’t cut your way to the future,” said Mateen Greenway, a fellow at HP Enterprise Services. “You have to cut your way to survival and then rebuild your organization as you come out of the recession," said Greenway, who is also HP Enterprise Services' chief technologist for defense, security, government and healthcare for European, Middle Eastern and African countries.

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Accent would like to welcome and introduce:

Corey Kaufman
Service Delivery Manager

Corey has recently relocated from
the Bay Area to Southern California
and has accepted the position as
our Service Delivery Manager. He graduated with honors from San
Diego State University in 2007 and
has Bachelor’s degrees in Business Management and Political Science. Prior to working for Accent, Corey
was a Branch Manager at the
Oakland Airport branch of
Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

As Service Delivery Manager, Corey
will be improving the efficiency of
our service delivery team by
evaluating processes for faster response times, improving internal
and external communication,
managing projects, and helping
to ensure client satisfaction in
every step of problem resolution.