by Dave Monahan | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Business Babble
Let’s begin this blog post by asking the first question any organization needs to ask when considering their approach to IT: How important is IT in your organization relative to other functions? For some businesses, the impact of IT is superficial – problems, risks...
by Dave Monahan | May 1, 2017 | Blog, Business Babble
May 1st marks 17 years in business for Smart Dolphins. Boom! 17 years ago, I was simply hoping to build a “bona fide business”. Fresh out of school, the challenge ahead was large and exciting. There wasn’t an exact goal defined here, but at some point in the past 17...
by Dave Monahan | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Business Babble
We all know that we need to have a good backup system for our data. Sometimes, having a backup of a company’s IT employee is overlooked. A single-person IT department is a big challenge and a risk from a business continuity perspective. Even something as simple as an...
by Dave Monahan | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, Pod Pointers
Many people listen to music while working. Personally, this is one area where I have had trouble mixing work and pleasure. Music is great, but I found it problematic to listen to my personal music library while working – it was distracting. I’d either get distracted...
by Dave Monahan | Oct 25, 2016 | Pod Pointers
If you’re anything like me, you tap a lot of keys in a day. I estimate I type for 403,653,395 hours in a year. If I were able to improve my typing speed by just 5%, I’d save like a few hundred hours a year. Math. But have you ever tried some of those typing tutor...
