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Search Engine Optimization is a term you've probably heard thrown around a lot before, but what it actually involves is constantly changing. The tactics you used three years ago to boost your website to a page one rank might not even have you cracking page ten these days. The shifting Internet landscape means that companies

In our last post we talked about why your company needs to have a website maintenance plan.  A website is an investment in your future, and one that requires upkeep. Deferring this upkeep can lead to security vulnerabilities, and the loss of your clients’ trust. It can even lead to the outright loss of your

Website maintenance might not be rocket science in the literal sense, but when you think about it, the metaphor is apt:  a secure, well-maintained, and well-designed website can launch your company into the stratosphere… proverbially speaking. Or at the very least, it can be the booster rocket that helps to get you there. After all,

Step away from the upgrade button. Apple’s Mac operating system is continuing its tour of California, this time heading offshore to Catalina Island. As with every major update, macOS Catalina has its upsides and its downsides, and comes loaded with a number of exciting new features. But is it wise to upgrade to Catalina for

It’s safe to say most of us would be in the dark were we not able to freely access the internet. In the eyes of many, including the UN, internet access is considered a basic human right. Not surprising, considering how inextricably it’s interlinked with modern society. But not every country sees it that way,

When traveling for business, there are some things about technology we need to talk to you about. It’s because there are big changes in store for you. You’re going places with your phone and laptop now, and that’s going to give hackers plenty of opportunities to get to you:  especially when your guard is down.

Travel and technology are natural companions. And no matter where or why we travel, we’re never more than a few feet from our devices — for better or worse. In many ways, technology is itself a form of travel; or at the very least it’s a world-wide window to humanity writ large. But for all

Does your My Documents folder look like an episode of Hoarders? Have you gotten into squabbles with coworkers about all the icons you have saved to your desktop? It's time we all finally faced the music:  unless you're the Marie Kondo of file management, you're probably a digital packrat. Nearly every corner of our lives

As Elizabeth Barrett Browning once wrote in her 1850 masterpiece Sonnets from the Portuguese, “How do I love accounting software? Let me count the ways.”  Okay, we'll admit:  it's been a few years since we read her collection of poems, so there's a slight chance we’re misremembering. But the spirit of the quote? That still

“Carte blanche” is a fun term to say, but toss it into a sentence about your information security and suddenly it foretells some bad repercussions:  “we gave our employees carte blanche access to their workstations, and now we’ve got more viruses than a CDC laboratory.” Sounds bad, doesn’t it? That’s because it really is. Allowing