Adding value to your job – making your contribution unique – is key to survival and success in a competitive job market. What could you do within your existing (or future) company to increase your value and influence? The seven job skills that follow won’t mean you necessarily work harder, but that you work differently and more creatively. You can add value if you choose to be: Experience Manager. Every interaction with another person creates an experience that leaves a memory of you and your work. How are you consciously designing these experiences to be positive? Enriching? Rewarding? Lasting? Since most people don’t tell you about their experience unless it is awful, you have to work int... Last modified on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 Continue reading

     Spring is almost here and it’s a wonderful time of renewal for so many things in our lives.  Beginning this month, we are going to start including a new feature in our monthly newsletter, a simple reminder to help us help you as effectively and efficiently as possible.  The onset of the Spring season is a great time to take a step back and do a reset to be sure we’re doing all that we can for our clients.  In so doing, it’s also a wonderful opportunity to share a few simple reminders with you, that will help insure you get the fastest and most helpful response from your Jenaly team.  Here are a few helpful reminders to help us help you:     ... Last modified on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 Continue reading

Dublin Over With Laughter   Why did St. Patrick drive the snakes out of Ireland? He couldn't afford plane fare.   Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day? Regular rocks are too heavy.   How can you tell if an Irishman is having a good time? He's Dublin over with laughter!   What do you get if you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck!   What would you get if you crossed a leprechaun with a Texan? A pot of chili at the end of the rainbow!  ... Last modified on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 Continue reading

       (Maybe It’s Time To Move To The Cloud)         As hurtful as it feels to us, we know that no one likes spending money on IT. Sure we all want our laptops, e-mail and applications secure, running fast and readily available 24-7-365, but your friends aren’t going to visit your office and oooh and ahhhh over your new server, and it certainly won’t provide you hours of entertainment or bragging rights at your next high school reunion.      So the question is, how can you get the tools you need to work without spending an arm and a leg? More and more businesses are choosing to move their network to the cloud. By hosting y... Last modified on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 Continue reading

     Most businesses make the HUGE (and costly) error of mistaking a “backup” with data recovery and business continuity. NOT true! Simply having a copy of your data stored somewhere does not automatically guarantee you’ll be back up and running again like you were before. To give our readers a better idea of this concept, we’ve included a diagram (below) from the BCM Institute explaining three key concepts: Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Maximum Tolerable Outage (MTO, or MTPOD as shown below). In order to choose the RIGHT type of back up for your company, you need to know what these three acronyms mean.      First, the R... Last modified on Sunday, 17 February 2013 Continue reading