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business and tech tips

March 2015

HELLO!

I hope this finds you well. With the volumes of information on the Internet, it's very easy to miss quality information that may help to serve your business for the better. Below is a group of select articles I found valuable and will be sharing similar articles on a monthly basis. Our team values your business and considers that great information should be shared for the benefit of all. So as we find great information, you will be in the know as well.

 IN THIS ISSUE

An Isolated Vault Could Store Our Data on DNA for 2 Million Years
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Gizmodo

Below the Arctic Circle, a few hundred feet inside a mountain, sits an unassuming vault which could be the ideal space for preserving the world’s data on DNA.  Could it potentially preserve anything else? Learn more about this quest to find out how long data stored on DNA could be preserved, and if indeed this vault is the ideal storage location.  

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Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Keith Ferrazzi, Harvard Business Review

Coaching is a critical job for any manager who wants to improve their team’s performance.  Research shows that training can improve performance by 88% when accompanied by coaching.  Read more about how the simple staff meeting can be the ideal venue for peer-to-peer coaching. 

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Target Says Credit Card Data Breach Cost It $162M
Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch

Retailers have become one of the biggest targets of data breaches today. Target has confirmed that its data breach that affected some 70 million customers when hackers broke into the company’s network and accessed credit card and other customer data cost them $162 million in expenses. Read more about Target’s published earnings report.

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Optimize Your Downtime: Complete Guide to Podcast Learning
Michael Simmons, 99U

Few of us take advantage of the transformative power of audio…the passive learning that we can do while running errands.  Here are a few tools to help you maximize your downtime and become an audio pro.  

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What’s The Worst Possible Password?

Daniel Engber, Popular Science

Short answer: Password1 is pretty bad!  Learn more about improving your account security and tips on how to better protect your accounts.  

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AND...VIDEO PICKS FROM OUR STAFF

Anti-Smartwatch Launched

Company takes the idea of smart watches to a different level
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Your Next Bar Experience

See how digital displays are evolving to a surreal level 
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Augmented Reality Sandbox

Play in this virtual sandbox with this futuristic technology 
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