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April 2007
In this issue...
> VoIP Right for
Business
> Become Compliant
> Outlook Anywhere
> Get E-mail Addresses
> Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Office
Add sound effects to your
presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Set them to start
and stop when you want them to, and see how to make a sound play for
a specified number of slides. Also learn how to play a CD with your
show.
You may want to introduce
a slide or make a point by including a sound effect. This course
tells you how to play sounds in a presentation — either by inserting
a sound file or by playing music from a CD.
For an inserted sound,
choose a way to make it start and specify how long it should play,
even over a number of slides. Hide the sound icon if you want, and
trigger the sound by clicking something else, such as a shape or
picture.
After completing this
course you will be able to:
• Insert sound files and select how
each one should start and stop.
•Set up a slide element so that it
triggers the sound.
•Guarantee that your sound will
play when you present.
•Play a CD for a slide show and
select the tracks you want.
SEE DEMO
Please forward this newsletter to anyone else in your
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Is VoIP Right for
Your Business?
 More and more businesses tired
of racking up high telecommunications bills are turning to the
Internet for their phone service. Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) services enable businesses to conduct calls across the
same network to access the Internet and get email – and at a
fraction of the cost of traditional voice networks. However,
VoIP developers have been focused on quality and reliability
versus security. Therefore, if you choose to adopt VoIP, it is
up to you to take the proper steps to secure it.
Background and
benefits
The technology behind VoIP has been around
for a few years; early incarnations of VoIP were plagued by
spotty service, muddled and dropped calls. Only in the last
few years has VoIP service improved enough to make it
sufficiently reliable and stable for business use. In fact,
businesses are finding that a well-planned and implemented
VoIP system can provide call quality and reliability that
rivals mobile phone or landline calls.
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| What a Company
Needs to Think about to Become Compliant
Federal Statutes
The
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act:
Requiring every business who
accesses or uses a customer's personal financial information
to issue a privacy statement that notifies its customers “in
clear and conspicuous language” on an annual basis how that
information is collected and used and to comply with its
stated privacy policy to protect the privacy of such
information;
The Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act:
Requiring
every business who accesses or uses an individual's protected
health information to issue a privacy statement that notifies
such individuals on an annual basis how that information is
collected and used and to comply with its stated privacy
policy to protect the privacy of such information;
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Outlook
Anywhere
Remote
access of Exchange-based email is a requirement of most mobile
workers. In the past, Outlook Web Access provided some, but
not all, of the functionality of Outlook. Remote users who
wanted to use their native Outlook software were forced to use
a VPN connection to access the corporate network. VPN's,
however, are more complex to configure and enable access to
more network services than are required for simple e-mail
access.
Outlook
2003 and 2007 now offers a simpler alternative to VPN
connections — RPC over HTTP (which Microsoft has mercifully
renamed "Outlook Anywhere"). With this feature, users can have
security-enhanced access to their Exchange Server accounts
from the Internet when they are working outside your
organization's firewall. Users do not need any special
connections or hardware, such as smart cards and security
tokens, and they can still get to their Exchange accounts even
if the Exchange server and client computer are behind
firewalls on different networks. The user runs the same
Outlook used inside the network and has all of Outlook's
functionality enabled including shared calendars, contact
lists and public folder access.
Outlook
Anywhere runs on Windows XP and Vista and requires Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003, 2007 or Microsoft Small Business Server
2003. Take advantage of Outlook's power and flexibility
outside your office with Outlook Anywhere. Contact your
account manager at Databranch or the Helpdesk for more
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7 Ways
to Get Customers' E-mail Addresses
(legitimately)
By Monte
Enbysk
 Reprinted with
permission from Microsoft Small Business
Center
If
you're like most small-business owners, you need a generous
supply of potential customers' names and e-mail addresses to
effectively market your offerings online.
The good
news is you don't have to deceive or spam people into getting
them. The bad news is that too many others have already taken
that route, giving online marketing a shady
reputation.
Unlike
the offline world, where consumers get junk mail daily and
simply toss it into the recycling bin, unwanted e-mail
messages offend people and trigger nasty replies. People are
more protective than ever of their e-mail
addresses.
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