Keynote Presentation: Technology is Broken and How to Fix IT
12/10/2008 9:15:00 AM
James Gaskin will explain how Technology Is Broken, and that it may not be your fault. By focusing on four critical areas for businesses, Gaskin shows how to effectively put technology to work in business, and how to choose the right technology for the job at hand. The four discussion areas, laptop and mobility safety, data safety, network safety, and enhanced e-mail value, all follow Gaskin's TPT Rule: Task, Process, Tools. Using dozens of real world examples gathered during years of consulting and writing 17 technology books and thousands of articles, Gaskin balances technical frustration with laughter. Wearing Hawaiian shirts and delivering objective information stripped of marketing hype in his trademark "unbiased and unboring" style, Gaskin explains how to "un-break" your broken technology.
Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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SECURITY: UTM: Simple, Elegance and Power
12/10/2008 10:15:00 AM
Modern IT security managers are essentially required to protect against multiple attack vectors while ensuring optimal performance for their organization. This session offers information about Unified Threat Management solution for comprehensive perimeter security. Featuring:
Network Security - Firewall, VPN and Intrusion Prevention
Web Security - URL Filtering, Malware Detection, Bandwidth Management and Application Control
Mail Security - Antispam, Antivirus, Antiphishing and Email Encryption
Deployment as hardware, software or virtual appliance
Astaro Security Gateway provides immediate protection for your network, web access and email traffic. The Astaro solution integrates more security applications than any competitor in one award-winning management device. A complete range of hardware appliances scale to the performance level that you demand.
Speakers:
Cameron Byers
Customer Support Manager
Astaro
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CLOUD COMPUTING: Cloud Wars: Protecting Web Applications from the new Phantom Menace-Google Hacking
12/10/2008 10:15:00 AM
Robert Ruddick discusses the next generation of SQL Injection attacks and best practices to protect your organization against these increasingly sophisticated and dangerous threats. Mr. Ruddick will highlight how hackers are launching non-customized attack code via "botnets" and Google searches to distribute malware with lightning-fast speed and precision efficiency.
Attend and hear best practice techniques to protect from menacing security issues such as:
Social networking site vulnerabilities
SQL injection ? attack "cocktails"
Cross site scripting
Cookie poisoning
Speakers:
Robert Ruddick
Security Systems Engineer, Western Region
Imperva
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VIRTUALIZATION: Data Duplication and Lowering Costs in Your Virtual Infrastructure
12/10/2008 10:15:00 AM
Effective use of virtualization technologies is critical in today's race to improve performance in a world of ever-increasing storage capacity demands. In this session, you will learn how to realize the benefits of a complete virtualization strategy that includes both server and storage solutions. NetApp's Virtualization solutions allow you to improve asset utilization, increase efficiency, simplify management and reduce costs.
In this session, you will learn how you can:
Lower storage costs and requirements by 50% to 90% with data deduplication technology
Increase server asset utilization and centralize management
Double recovery times and improve operational efficiency
Manage risk by reducing backup times
Eliminate storage and time constraints with our Snapshot? technology, which provides granular restore capabilities at the virtual machine level.
Shorten test and development cycles from weeks to minutes with instant storage provisioning and cloning of virtual machines.
Speakers:
Justin Stevens
Principal Architect
Groupware Technology
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APPLE SEMINAR: It's Just Good Business: Leopard Server
12/10/2008 10:15:00 AM
It's really not about Mac vs PC. It's about good business. About getting the most out of your technology investment.
Attend this seminar and find out why growing numbers of businesses are choosing Mac OS X Server as their platform of choice. Easy to set up and manage, native support for Windows, and a simple, very affordable licensing model, Mac OS X Server is ideal solution for businesses with limited budget and no IT department.
Speakers:
E. Reese
Senior System Engineer
Apple, Inc
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SECURITY: FTP: The Enemy Within
12/10/2008 10:45:00 AM
There was a time when simple things such as transferring files from one location to another was just a matter of getting your IT guy to install an FTP client on your machine. These times are over, and in a world where security has become paramount, auditors, shareholder and customers are requiring organizations to scale up their security efforts. Getting it right is not easy, and unbeknown to them, many companies still rely on unsecure legacy protocols such FTP for file transfer or Telnet for remote access. Join us in this session as we explore the threats and financial impact of using these protocols and discuss how Connectivity Secure Server, Hummingbird new high-performance secure shell solution, can help you achieve secure file transfer and network protection.
Speakers:
Robert Wong
Senior Product Manager
Hummingbird
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Do More. Travel Less. Be Present: Leveraging High Definition Video for Competitive Edge
12/10/2008 10:45:00 AM
More and more, organizations are turning to High Definition video communications as an everyday business tool.
Video communications today is High Definition-the same quality as you experience on your home HDTV and HD video. Collaboration is greener, faster and cheaper than traveling. Imagine talking with colleagues, customers and partners around the world as if you're sitting across the conference table in the same room. That is a reality today with high definition video solutions and telepresence.
Speakers:
Scott Jones
President
Inflow Systems
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Email Archiving: Improving Productivity and Meeting Compliance Requirements
12/10/2008 10:45:00 AM
Email today contains discussions, agreements, documents, notifications, contact information, and many other kinds of critical business information. By automatically storing email records, your organization can ensure that they are not loosing or misplacing the information they need. In this session you'll hear how to easily and automatically maintain the required records and to search and find specific information. Takeaway points include:
Options for eliminating the need to retain large volumes of old emails on your mail server.
Details about the government regulations (Sarbannes-Oxley, HIPAA, etc.) that require the retention of and access to email records.
How to use a compact network appliance for your archiving needs.
Speakers:
Ryan Speir
Vice President of Sales
ArcMail Technology
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SECURITY: Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet
12/10/2008 11:45:00 AM
Sure, you've heard of bots and botnets. But have you ever actually seen a bot, bot source code, or a bot herder's Command and Control (C&C) center in action? Now you can.
In this presentation, WatchGuard Technologies, uncovers what makes bots tick. The talk covers topics both beginning and advanced:
What a "botnet" is
What bot source codes looks like and does
How bot herders control bots via C&C centers
How a crook might recruit an army of bots
How to render bots powerless on your network
During the talk, you'll see the inner workings of some real-world, malicious bots, found in the wild on underground sites. Learn about the many attacks botnets can launch, and how to defend against them. Since the best way to understand these sophisticated attacks is to see them unfold right before your eyes, we will present video captures of bots in action. Once you understand how these evil botnets get built, you'll have the power to avoid assimilation. Resistance is not futile.
Speakers:
Scott Pinzon
CISSP and Information Security Analyst
WatchGuard
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Break On Through To The Other Side
12/10/2008 11:45:00 AM
Successful companies know that their most profitable investment is in their employees. When people are at their peak performance, productivity increases, business operations are more accurate, and the costs involved with human error decrease.
Join us as we discuss the key concepts to help your company "break on through to the other side".
What new technologies are available to your company.
Learn how to effectively train your employees for these new technologies.
Understand the different training platforms available for your company.
Develop and nurture your company's strongest resources.
Learn money saving principles in today's slowing economy. Speakers:
Kim Johnson
Business Development Manager
LearnKey
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Are Energy Costs Eating Away AT Your IT Budget?
12/10/2008 11:45:00 AM
New backup power system designs are delivering more power in a smaller space and saving you thousands of dollars is energy costs, almost paying for themselves in the life of the product.
Come see how Eaton's newest technological advancements can work for you. What you will learn in this session:
How simple decisions you make can effect our environment
What changes may you see in deploying VoIP
Where can you find help when trying to determine actual power draw from IT equipment
How one customer fit the high power UPS they needed in the only space they had
How high efficiency products effect TCO
Speakers:
Alan Chiste
Sales Manager
Eaton
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APPLE SEMINAR: No Mac is an Island: Mac/Windows Integration
12/10/2008 11:45:00 AM
Apple is the fastest-growing personal computer platform today. One of the reasons for this is the fact that Macintosh/PC worlds are no longer divided by incompatible standards. Contrary to popular belief, they can connect seamlessly to the same networks, share many common applications and can easily exchange data and files. Join us to learn the many ways that Macs and PCs can work together, including options such as BootCamp and Parallels which allow multiple operating systems to run on your Macs.
Speakers:
E. Reese
Senior System Engineer
Apple, Inc
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Keynote Presentation: PROFITABILITY-The Other Side of Compliance
12/10/2008 12:15:00 PM
Overview: Being compliant has often times meant spending money, more time and more recourse. This panel explores how a business balances their needs Vs government demands.
Discussion in three parts:
I.Law:
a. Local and Federal laws
b. Where are the teeth
c. Who has to comply and when
II. Getting Compliant:
a.Creating a safe harbor
b.Putting together the right teams
i. HR
ii. Technology
iii.Training
c. Documentation
III.Leveraging Complaints to grow business
Key Leanings:
Understanding where the risk lay
Who is the most vulnerable
Identifying risks and avoiding pitfalls
Easy steps to implement now
Ways to leverage compliance to have a positive impact on key business attributers
Speakers:
Diane Childs
Identity Theft Program Outreach Coordinator
Dept. of Consumer and Business Services, Oregon State Government
Shelah Johnson
CMO
Techchex
Ron Miller
Robert McMillen
President
All Tech 1
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SECURITY: Requirements of the New Oregon Identity Theft Protection Act which Applies to All Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
12/10/2008 1:15:00 PM
Available exclusions for small businesses
Penalties for non-compliance
Requirements for compliance
Five most overlooked compliance items
New requirements for inventory and transporting your backup media
Where to go for help.
Free compliance checklist for all attendees
Speakers:
Sean Odom
Sr. Technical Engineer
24x7 I.T. Solutions
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THE NEXT WORKPLACE: Going Green In The Server Room
12/10/2008 1:15:00 PM
Join Robert McMillen, host of the All Tech Radio Show and Lance Liden, the director of Competitive Programs for the Americas from IBM.
Robert and Lance will discuss "Going Green" which is a billion dollar national program from IBM that educates companies on how to save money and the environment by changing your server room or data center to support Green Technologies. Going Green no longer costs money. It now saves money and lots of it. It's also good for the planet and the right thing to do. Come and see why this hot trend in cutting edge technology is here to stay!
Speakers:
Robert McMillen
President
All Tech 1
Lance Liden
Director
Competive Programs for the Americas from IBM
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APPLE SEMINAR: Podcast Producer: How to Make it Work for your Business
12/10/2008 1:15:00 PM
Podcasting is now one of the most powerful tools you can use to market your business. And as you'll see in this seminar, Apple Podcast Producer makes it easy. No experience necessary.
With Apple Podcast Producer, the process of creating and publishing podcasts is completely automatic. So now it's easy to publish your podcast to iTunes, a blog, or other web site. And equally easy for your customers and employees to download your podcast to their computer, iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
Find out how easy it is to reach out to your customers, employees or prospects using the power of podcasting
Speakers:
E. Reese
Senior System Engineer
Apple, Inc
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Explaining Geeks to Humans and the Inverse
12/10/2008 1:45:00 PM
Geeks love technology but don't understand non-technical employees. Non-technical employees don't understand technology or geeks. The only common ground for these groups? They both hate the idiot vice presidents who can't communicate to employees from either side of the geek divide.
Learn fun facts like how to tell if someone is too stupid to use a computer,
What traits say "I'm a geek",
How to tell if you're a geek wannabe, a geek or an uber geek,
And why HR says there are no good technical people available.
James Gaskin explains how geeks and non-geeks can work together for the same end results: improving their business and avoiding idiot vice presidents. Along the way geeks and non-geeks will learn how to better communicate and work together. Idiot vice presidents will remain clue-free.Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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Keynote Presentation: Navigating the Second Circle: Bringing Web 2.0 Tools Into The Enterprise
12/11/2008 9:00:00 AM
In the new technology landscape of Web 2.0 applications, there are many new tools that can provide immediate value for a business with litttle to no cost. The challenge is that with such a wide variety of tools, how are you going to decide what tools to implement? In this session you will gain insight into various tools of the trade, including: blogs, microblogs, RSS feeds, social networking, and wikis. Come away with the knowedge you need to separate the truth from the hype, and make informed decisions around your second cirlce web strategy.
Speakers:
T.J. O'Connor
Systems Consultant
CrossTech Partners
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Web Bailout Plan: Surviving The Downturn With Web Tools
12/11/2008 9:45:00 AM
How did we ever live without laptops, Blackberry's, Iphones and the web? Today's business climate has been forever changed by the web and the devices we use to navigate it. Many of the most powerful tools of today began with social networking users in mind. More and more businesses are applying these tools and processes to increase operational efficiencies and optimize business processes. In this session, we will take a look at how businesses small and large are applying functions from Facebook, Skype, and Twitter to do business more efficiently.
How are mobile workstations and web collaboration tools changing office environments and company cultures?
How are Intranets and Project Management solutions helping managers maintain oversight with increasingly remote workforces?
How are Intranets and Social Networking tools being used by remote teams to address traditional business operation challenges at a fraction of the cost?
Speakers:
Ben McKinley
President
Cascade Web Development
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Optimizing Your Time With Simply Intelligent Mobile Applications (SIMA)
12/11/2008 10:15:00 AM
The iCooper mission is to design, develop, and distribute Simply Intelligent Mobile Applications (SIMA) that utilize iPhone and other handheld mobile devices to assist enterprises and individuals
in managing and optimizing their time.
Everyone who buys an iPhone could potentially be a 'Mobile Warrior'. Realtors, medical practitioners, sales and service reps, computer techies, parents? the list is endless.
Using the iPhone as a data collection device, Mobile Warrior tracks time, mileage, expenses, routes, billing rates and other pertinent information related to the activities of the mobile community. This tracking translates into verifiable audit trails, and automated synchronization with contacts, calendars, or journals for a complete history of activities. Additionally, Mobile Warrior provides standardized output to accounting software packages to automate billing and expense reporting as well as for tax purposes.
Speakers:
Kevin Bradley
Vice President / COO
iCooper
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CLOUD COMPUTING: New Enterprise Strategies: Rethinking IT
12/11/2008 10:15:00 AM
Cloud computing's departure from conventional computing architecture
What "cloud computing" is out there now?
The properties and ideals of cloud computing
Critical components of cloud computing architecture, from hardware to monitor/management/provisioning interfaces.
Cloud computing as the bridge to new technologies: IPv6, Web 2.5/3.0, internet2, etc.
Speakers:
Chad Prucha
Sr. Solutions Architect
FusionWare
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SECURITY: Can Technology Beat the Spammers At Their Own Game?
12/11/2008 10:15:00 AM
This session will discuss the maliciousness of Spam and the technologies that spammers are using to spoof your spam filters. How complacent should you be if you are compromising you block rate to reduce false positives? And what is to be gained if you use a managed solution vs. a non managed solution?
What is their motivation?
How Dangerous is Spam?
First Generation Solutions vs. Next Generation Technology
Which Solution is Right for you? Hosted or Appliance? Managed or Non-Managed?
Speakers:
David Brown
Western Regional Sales Director
Red Condor Secure
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APPLE SEMINAR: It's Just Good Business: Leopard Server
12/11/2008 10:15:00 AM
It's really not about Mac vs PC. It's about good business. About getting the most out of your technology investment.
Attend this seminar and find out why growing numbers of businesses are choosing Mac OS X Server as their platform of choice. Easy to set up and manage, native support for Windows, and a simple, very affordable licensing model, Mac OS X Server is ideal solution for businesses with limited budget and no IT department
Speakers:
E. Reese
Senior System Engineer
Apple, Inc
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Presentation by SonicWall/ NuOz
12/11/2008 10:45:00 AM
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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS & VoIP: Unified Communications in a VoIP World
12/11/2008 10:45:00 AM
This presentation is targeted towards small to mid-sized organizations. The presentation will present information on VoIP and Unified Communication solutions and how they can benefit these types of organizations.
What is VoIP and Unified Communications
What 5 things should one look at in a VoIP solution
Why not to use a "free" VoIP solution
What pitfalls should one be wary of
What is the difference between a VoIP solutions provider and a VoIP service provider.
Speakers:
Steven Schroedl
President
Chime Software
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VIRTUALIZATION: Deduplicated Storage
12/11/2008 10:45:00 AM
o Deduplication technology has changed the economics of storage to help you build a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective data protection architecture. Enterprises of all sizes are using deduplication storage to reduce backup costs and simplify data recovery. Learn about five areas where you can leverage the power of deduplication in your environment:
Backup and Recovery (By Application such as Oracle and Exchange or by Environment such as NAS and VMware)
Disaster Recovery
Tape Consolidation
Remote Site Replication
Archiving & Compliance
Speakers:
Randy Hopkins
Data Domain
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APPLE SEMINAR: No Mac is an Island: Mac/Windows Integration
12/11/2008 10:45:00 AM
Apple is the fastest-growing personal computer platform today. One of the reasons for this is the fact that Macintosh/PC worlds are no longer divided by incompatible standards. Contrary to popular belief, they can connect seamlessly to the same networks, share many common applications and can easily exchange data and files. Join us to learn the many ways that Macs and PCs can work together, including options such as BootCamp and Parallels which allow multiple operating systems to run on your Macs.
Speakers:
E. Reese
Senior System Engineer
Apple, Inc
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Making It All Work Together: Implementing Open Source, Proprietary and Mixed Source Solutions for Small Business
12/11/2008 11:30:00 AM
As a small and growing business, you need an IT infrastructure that cuts cost and keeps you able to respond quickly to market changes. You need to make smart choices that fit your budget and be sure that you have adequate and competent technical support. In this session you will learn:
What questions to ask if considering a choice between proprietary (Windows, Apple) and Open Source (Linux) server solutions.
What does the server need to provide?
Is it possible to use Open Source to save money on licensing without sacrificing function?
How to plan for security and backup.
How to find qualified technical assistance and KNOW that it's qualified.
Speakers:
Melanie Feeney
Work Group Product Manager
Novell
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ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE: Surviving, and Thriving, in a Down Economy Using SharePoint & CRM
12/11/2008 11:30:00 AM
We are in the midst of an economic climate that presents large challenges, and large opportunities, to businesses of all sizes. Companies that act and react quickly to evolving market conditions can weather the current storm and position themselves to emerge stronger when the economy rebounds.
Join us as we explore how business-class solutions from Microsoft can put crucial business data at your fingertips, not only helping your business run more efficiently, but providing you with the ability to make rapid, sound decisions.
As a Microsoft partner, Pacific Intermedia is pleased to invite you to attend a seminar showcasing Microsoft? Office SharePoint? Server 2007 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM products and technologies.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing. Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management solution that addresses issues and concerns across departments.
Learn how these products, especially when used in concert, can keep all your departments working together, accessing and managing all the information they need to work efficiently, boost sales and productivity, increase profits, and keep customers happy.
Speakers:
Michael Clark
Principal
Pacific Intermedia
Brad Lyons
Principal
Pacific Intermedia
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Reducing T.C.O. Through Life Cycle Management
12/11/2008 11:30:00 AM
The Zones Single Source Solution will discuss in this session:
Control IT asset costs from acquisition to ITAD (Information Technology Asset Disposition)
Employ best practices in Business Continuity.
Embrace Green IT initiatives for a healthier business future.
Increase procurement efficiencies through ZonesConnect custom extranet.
Leverage Zones' MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) status to meet diversity and corporate citizenship initiatives.
Speakers:
Chris Cox
Director of Sales
Zones
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Improving Productivity with Rich Internet Applications
12/11/2008 12:00:00 PM
Most experts agree that we are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in software application development. This being the convergence of traditional desktop application technology and the Web. However, there are different viewpoints as to which direction the future lies. One camp says the future lies in "software plus services" that is, using traditional desktop software to connect to the web to access online services. Another camp believes the future rests on cross-platform software that allows developers to use web-based tools to build applications that run inside a web browser or can be installed as full-featured desktop software programs. NetXposure, a Rich Internet Application developer and Digital Asset Management solution vendor, believes the latter is where the future lies.
In this presentation you will learn the following:
What a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is, and why you should care.
The Benefit of applications built in Adobe Flex
Why Adobe considers AIR to be their 4th major platform (after Postscript, PDF and Flash)
How an Enterprise Digital Asset Management Solution utilizes RIA technology
How one NetXposure customer is improving productivity with an RIA.
Speakers:
Scott Eilers
VP of Sales & Marketing
NetXposure
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UNIFIED COMMUNICATION & VoIP: Good News in a Recession: You Can Increase Capacity and Decrease Costs!
12/11/2008 12:00:00 PM
The relentless demand for increased bandwidth challenges all of us to find fast, affordable and reliable services. And it isn't going to let up! Join Brad Kincaid, Vice President and General Manager of ezWireless, for an upbeat & insightful analysis of how we can stay ahead of the Monster, wirelessly. You'll discover:
How to increase your capacity by several X
How to decrease your monthly costs by a factor of X
State-of-the-Art point-to-point alternatives to fiber & T1s
How to use broadband wireless in a Unified Communications environment
Side-by-side comparisons of broadband wireless costs with fiber & bundled T1's
Speakers:
Brad Kincaid
Vice President
ezWireless
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APPLE SEMINAR: Podcast Producer: How to Make it Work for your Business
12/11/2008 12:00:00 PM
Podcasting is now one of the most powerful tools you can use to market your business. And as you'll see in this seminar, Apple Podcast Producer makes it easy. No experience necessary.
With Apple Podcast Producer, the process of creating and publishing podcasts is completely automatic. So now it's easy to publish your podcast to iTunes, a blog, or other web site. And equally easy for your customers and employees to download your podcast to their computer, iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
Find out how easy it is to reach out to your customers, employees or prospects using the power of podcasting
Speakers:
E. Reese
Senior System Engineer
Apple, Inc
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Avoiding HIPPA Compliance Pitfalls
12/11/2008 12:45:00 PM
This session will address:
What is the likelihood I will be audited (What's new the I need to know)
Penalties for Non-Compliance
Most commonly missed items
Hints to keep your company under the radar
New employees HIPAA compliance issues
What to do if your going to be audited
Speakers:
Sean Odom
Sr. Technical Engineer
24x7 I.T. Solutions
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