I’ve noticed a trend where friends, family and clients alike will feel as though their IT service provider is only there to fix their broken computer. When they need a computer repaired, they call the technician. When they need server service for their business, they call the technician. When they need a new network drop in their office, they call …
Content Filtering Question: Has Social Media Hurt Your Business or Helped?
As I sit here, I am reading a friend’s status on Facebook that says, “well…ugh!!! no more waiting on the mail….got denied my unemployment cuz the state says i had disregard for my employer when i posted on facebook i was loosing my job. ??? SO…ADVICE….NEVER talk about your job, and NEVER have coworkers as friends on facebook!!!!! now, if …
Greenville Google On Main Still Going Strong
Now it has been over a week since the Google On Main #GoogleOnMain event where thousands gathered in Greenville’s Falls Park while aircraft flew overhead capturing the spectacle on video and stills. Yes, the #LuckyGVL sponsored event was spectacular without question! More info on this event, including photos and video can be found on http://www.wearefeelinglucky.com/ This coming Tuesday evening at 7PM, …
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When You Need Computer Repair Do You Search Online or Use a Phone book?
If you are like most people, you keep a good ‘ol Yellow Page phone book handy. Many offices I have been in over the years while repairing computers have used phone books, but not for looking up numbers, they will tape a few together and raise their monitors up on them so they are viewing at a comfortable angle. And …
Social Network Knows No Borders
I received an email from a gentleman saying that someone mentioned that I could help him with a computer issue he was having. Thing is, he was not in my geographic service area of Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina. He was not even in our state. He was from Arizona. Now it is not uncommon for someone to …
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Free Microsoft T-Shirt
Homeland Secure IT, LLC has sponsored a couple Microsoft events where we showcased Microsoft products such as Microsoft Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 (due out later this year), and Windows 7. Because Microsoft can actually be pretty cool and we partner with them, they gave us some neat promotional products to give away at these events. …
Google High Speed Fiber Internet Still THE Hot Topic in Greenville
If you are from the Greenville / Upstate area you would have to be living as a Quaker to not know about all that is going on with the effort to bring Google Fiber here. Heck, even Quakers probably are aware of the community effort to catch the eye of Google. It is not just localized either. Greenville is showing …
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Why was the Google On Main / #GoogleOnMain event important to Greenville & the Upstate?
Amy Wood of WSPA TV was asking what the Google On Main event meant to us… In thinking about what Google On Main meant to me, it meant a chance to join with friends and strangers alike in a *community* effort to catch the eye of Google… And I believe we did just that! Seriously though… To see thousands of …
Google On Main Was A Total Success!
Last night my wife Pamela, daughter Megan and her friend Christina attended Google On Main along with hundreds of others and formed the letters that spelled out “Google” while swinging LED glow sticks over our heads and posing for photos and videos as a helicopter and plane flew over. What a blast! What does it all mean? It means that …
Google High Speed Fiber Coming To Greenville SC
Okay, the title is deceiving, as Google has not picked where they are going yet… However, we here in the Upstate are hoping that Google will select Greenville, SC as their test bed for 1 Gig of fiber awesomeness! This Saturday, many people are planning on meeting downtown in Greenville in an effort to make everyone in the world aware …