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Office 365 for NonProfits

Update: The information in this blog post is from 2011. For the newest information we have on the Microsoft Charity Program, please read this post.  Most people don’t know that outside of health-care, non-profits and churches are Mavidea’s next largest customer base. I think there are several reasons for that. A big part of it…

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Threat Level has been Elevated to Red. Moving to Defcon 1

Ok….  first thing… take a deep breath and relax.  Neither of those things have happened.  In fact, the color-coded system from Homeland Security has been replaced, so the next time one of your friends or co-workers tells you what color it is, tell them to get with the times.  (See?  Storehouse of useless information.)  Why…

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Making Email Work for Business

Email.  It’s probably one of the more boring technical subjects out there, and yet probably one of the most important business functions for our customers.  No one ever talks about email, until there is a problem.  Statistically, there are now more emails exchange in a day than phone calls.  Heck, that’s actually been true for…

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Customer Satisfaction is Worthless

 At Mavidea, we’re big into reading books. At any given time, the management team here is reading and discussing a book about how to improve the services we deliver to our clients. (It’s not always great, as they sometimes get crazy ideas in their heads that the staff has to implement, but that’s why they…

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How Mavidea saved $5500 during the Snowpocolypse.

Clever title, isn’t it?  But it’s true – Mavidea saved at least $5500 during the “Snowpacolypse” snow event last week. For those of you not in central Illinois, I’m sure you heard about the blizzard that tore through the area.  Bloomington was luckily spared most of it – we only got 12-13 inches of snow. …

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