Top 50 Business Influencers Event

I attended the Top 50 event last night and I was impressed how Brian Barquilla put the event together in such a short period of time and had about 150 people attending. Great Job Brian!

As I walked around the room I see people whom I met over the past 20 or so years being here in Jacksonville at different organizations such as Jacksonville Chamber, BNI, Networth, Jacksonville Business Consultants.

I looked at the Top 50 list and was surprised I only knew about 60% of the people on the list. As a business owner I questioned my own efforts in getting out to the business community and I realized that I was busy with production in my company and that the relationships I had made over that time that they were not championing for me or my company because I was not in the mix consistently. I am sure this cost my business to competitors that I know see at the events. I am in the fastest changing industry and I also have to allocate time for training on new technology and made sacrifices to networking.

In the past people whom I felt influenced my business was without a doubt directly ranked by contribution. #1 Chris Everson #2 Carlin Boswell #3 Tresa Calfee #4 Larry Levy #5 Mike Aston. These are my top 5 people who went out of way to ensure Tec on Call was the company the prospects would need for their IT and communication needs.

Indirectly, I would have to thank Lynn Coggin for her leadership and teaching me different ways to network, Diana Otwell, Eva Greenfield, Jen Errair, Deb Eveson, Donna Reade and Mike McCreary whom support and services helped our company.

So, knowing these people have influenced about 25% of my business to my company and I appreciate each and every one of you. I now I have supported each one of you the same. I also believed what Lynn teaches givers gain and I have been blessed.

As for the others I am making a goal to get to know each of you by the end of the year and I want my networking efforts to contribute for 50-75 percent of my business.

Again Thank you!

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Speed up access to data
Disk fragmentation slows the overall performance of your system. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk as a file is opened (to piece it back together). The response time can be significantly longer.

Disk Defragmenter (sometimes shortened to Defrag by users) is a Windows utility that consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer’s hard disk so that each occupies a single space on the disk. With your files stored neatly end to end, without fragmentation, reading and writing to the disk speeds up.

When to run Disk Defragmenter
In addition to running Disk Defragmenter at regular intervals (weekly is optimal), there are other times you should run it, too, such as when:

You add a large number of files.

Your free disk space totals 15 percent or less.

You install new programs or a new version of the Windows operating system

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Most of you in the apple world use your ipod and that feature is also on the ipad. But with limited memory being 16,32,64GB of memory you do not have alot of space for the applications, music, video’s, pictures which are large files on any platform. So I have found that by turning off my ipod totally on the ipad I was able to open up 29GB of space immediately. I know use Amazon cloud services for my music which it will tell you safari will not work but it does and I use downcast for my podcast which I have the choice of storing them or streamming them live.

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Here are my top 10 most useful secret ninja moves to increase your productivity and win friends and lovers.

#1: Format painter (Office)

The Format Painter tool replicates the formatting from one part of a document to another. So instead of manually redoing all the formatting yourself, you can use the Format Painter. First, select the text whose formatting you want to replicate. Then, click the Format Painter toolbar button. Finally, select the text you want to imbue with the format. For bonus points, you can double-click the Format Painter button to replicate the formatting to multiple areas of the document!

 

#2: Paragraph in/out/up/down (Office)

You can easily move a paragraph in four directions by pressing Alt+Shift+[Arrow]. To increase or decrease the indentation level of a paragraph or bullet point, press Alt+Shift+Right and Alt+Shift+Left respectively. To move a paragraph up or down, press Alt+Shift+Up or Alt+Shift+Down. This works especially well in PowerPoint, where it’s common to reorder bullet points or change indentation levels.

#3: Increase or decrease font size (Office)

To quickly increase the font size of selected text, press Ctrl+Shift+>. To decrease the size, press Ctrl+Shift+<. I find it easy to remember these keyboard shortcuts because the one with the greater-than symbol increases the font size while the less-than symbol decreases it.

#4: Quick Access Toolbar (Office)

Office 2007 has a Quick Access Toolbar that can be customized to include buttons for your favorite commands. The Quick Access Toolbar is in the top left corner of many Office applications. You customize it by clicking on the drop-arrow on its right.

 

#5: Fill handle (Excel)

Excel can auto-fill cells in eerily smart ways. Instead of manually typing a sequence in cells, you can simply type the first few values of the sequence and drag the fill handle to auto-fill the rest of the cells. The fill handle is the little black square at the lower right corner of a selected cell’s border. Drag it to automatically fill adjacent cells.

 

If you drag the fill handle with only one cell selected, it will repeat that cell’s value into adjacent cells. However, if you drag the fill handle with multiple cells selected, Excel is smart enough to figure out the series. For instance, in the following example, Excel will fill subsequent cells with the increasing series of odd numbers. This even works for other types of series, like dates and percentages.

 

#6: Moving and copying cells by dragging selection borders (Excel)

Quite possibly the most useful yet completely undiscoverable feature in Excel is the ability to move and copy cells by dragging selection borders.

 

For instance, to move row four between rows one and two, select row four and drag the selection border while holding down the Shift key in order to insert it in its new position. If you drag the border without holding down the Shift key, the selected cells will instead replace the cells you drop them on. Conversely, if you hold down Ctrl while dragging a selection border, the selected cells are copied to their new location.

#7: Status bar statistics (Excel)

The status bar in Excel shows handy statistics when multiple cells are selected. In Excel 2007, the status bar shows the selected cells’ average, count, and sum. This is an easy way to quickly analyze data without authoring formulas.

 

#8: Clear formatting (Word and PowerPoint)

To remove formatting from selected text, press Ctrl+Spacebar.

#9: Advanced field search (Outlook)

In Outlook, you can quickly search through a mail folder by using the Instant Search box. In addition to searching for keywords, you can do a fielded search by prefixing your search text with a variety of field names.

 

For instance, the above example searches for all mail from people named “jimmy” sent in May with attachments that have “jpg” in the filename. I most often use this feature for two things: to easily find email from a specific person, and to find specific attachments.

#10: Presenter view (PowerPoint)

PowerPoint has for many years had a great feature called Presenter View, which allows you as the presenter to see a different view of the presentation from your audience. In Presenter View, your monitor shows not only the slides, but also your notes as well as the current elapsed time in the presentation. This makes giving a presentation far easier. To enable Presenter view, go to the Slide Show ribbon and check Use Presenter View. In that same section, you can also change the monitor which the presentation is shown on. One note: the Use Presenter View checkbox can only be checked if you already have a second monitor connected and enabled.

 

Impress friends, family, and hot dates with your newly acquired Secret Ninja Skills! But please help me spread the word so that they don’t stay secret any longer. After all, everyone should benefit from these great tools and shortcuts.

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