This month’s email management strategy is:  Save!

File email attachments where they belong, and delete the email. File these attachments on your network’s personal or shared directories (i.e., desktop, documents, pictures, etc.)

Any questions? Give IT Radix a call.

You took a look at a new car online and now car ads are popping up on your social media pages, in your email and everywhere.  Why?  Because you're being tracked as you surf the Internet.  While you're surfing, technology is collecting data on you and your surfing habits.

This month’s email management strategy is:  Design!

Use a filing system that reflects all the facets of your daily activities and interactions (i.e., how you really work).  A straight alphabetical list isn’t as helpful as you may think.

One of our clients received the email shown.  It was extremely convincing. In this case, the sender correctly listed last three digits of one of his accounts.  Fortunately, he was on alert and disregarded the phone number in the email.  He looked up the bank's number online and called them directly.

Thanks NJAWBO Metro East for letting me speak on "Tech Tips for the Business Owner" on Tuesday, March 3 at Toast in Montclair.

According to technology columnist, David Pogue, "today we are expected to learn to use technology via osmosis".

How's that working for you?  I had the pleasure of demonstrating some tips and tricks that will make navigating your devices faster, easier and safer.

Who knows how this international incident will play out, but we do know now that it can provide us some lessons that we can apply to protecting our business and network.

Have a strong firewall to protect your network from the outside world.

Had Crimea had a stronger border, like a firewall, outsiders would not have access to their territory.

This month’s email management strategy is:  Decrease!

Remember, less is more!

Unsubscribe from newsletters you never read.  But be careful! Trying to opt-out of SPAM emails will only alert the sender that they have a LIVE address.

This month’s email management strategy is: Build!

If you’re keeping an email because it contains contact information, track that data in Outlook Contacts or in your CRM, not the Inbox. Here are some tips when saving contact information in Outlook: 

First highlight and copy the signature information from the email.

I had the benefit of hearing Chet Wisniewski, Sophos Security Expert, today and he shared some great info about the latest security threats and how to protect yourself from them.  One of my favorites was his strong recommendation not to use that banking app on your smartphone or tablet.

As we prepare for 2014, automatically add holidays to your Outlook calendar:

Outlook 2010 – On the Tools menu, click Options, click Calendar Options, and then click Add Holidays

Outlook 2013 – Click File tab, click Options, click Calendar, under Calendar Options click Add Holidays