The picture above is what was left of an office, after the touchdown of the enormous tornado that destroyed much of Joplin, Mo. Imagine if that the pile of rubble was YOUR business. What would you do? What could you do? Where would your business be a year from now? Statistics show that most businesses that suffer that kind of loss NEVER recover.

For the past few weeks Veracity’s Help Desk team has noticed a dramatic increase in the amount of malware infecting computers. In most of these cases the infection started with an innocent search for pictures from Google Images. Even at Veracity we search Google Images often looking for pictures of products/diagrams that we work with on a daily basis.

Veracity Technologies is now offering a Video Conferencing Solution designed with small businesses in mind. Introducing the Vu Telepresence!

Face-to-face meetings are the most preferred medium of communication for any business. What if you could meet without even crossing a road? We all know by now what a nightmare traffic has become, of how fluctuating airfares killed the freedom airlines once promised.

Developing a disaster recovery plan require more than just planning for a worst-case scenario.  Disasters come in all sizes, so plans must be flexible. When developing a DR plan, think about the small problems as well as the large ones.

For example, a "disaster" might be the deletion of a critical file or folder.

As I drove back to Minnesota from Georgia last week I had plenty of time to reflect on what I had learned in the past five months.  I also thought a lot about what I should do for the next several months before I have to return to Georgia.  While in Georgia I was learning about information technology (IT) solutions.

I love to scour the web looking for good nuggets of information that I can learn from.  I know my co-workers really like this as I typically take what I learn and try to implement it on them.  A special emphasis on "try"!

The latest nugget of knowledge is an article about implementing technology within your business.

 This weekend I stumbled across a great article on TechRepublic that I thought I should share with the rest of you.  This article really made me think about how I communicate not only to clients, but also to my co-workers.  This got me to thinking that I can do a much better job at communicating.