Technology Coach & CEO of Sawyer Training, Inc. and active instructor and speaker. George has three children and enjoys the challenge of living a very low-tech, sustainable life in an urban environment.
You may have heard my soapbox speeches on security and the importance of strong passwords. If so, one of your biggest questions is probably not “should I” but, rather, “how do I?” The secret of keeping strong passwords and maintaining a different password for every service/site is a password manager. A Post-it note under your [...]
For the administrator Microsoft’s Office 365 can be a moving target with changes happening constantly and documentation in rather short supply. Below are some links I’ve found to helpful information. Please feel free to add your suggestions and updates so I can pass them on to students in future classes. Evaluation and Deployment Microsoft Office [...]
According to Frederic Lardinois over at TechCrunch Google should soon incorporate last years’ acquisition QuickOffice into the Google Apps environment. I’m not sure I agree with Lardinois that “Google doesn’t have anything in its repertoire of web apps that comes even close [to Microsoft's Office Web Apps]“. However, I also expect Google will be bringing QuickOffice into [...]
Yesterday I finally got around to taking (and passing) the Virtualization Essentials (VE) exam put out by ITPreneurs. The VE exam is actually the first of two exams for the CCC Technology Associate Certification, the second being CompTIA’s Cloud Essentials Professional (CEP) exam. While still a young organization, the Cloud Credential Council (CCC) has ambitious [...]
A Presentation given to the MCFOA 20 March 2013. Technology moves fast and keeping up can seem so impossible we often just give up. It’s easier to stay in our old tools and hope for retirement. In this session George will help you grasp the big-picture of technology and develop some simple techniques for seeing what’s [...]