Domain Renewal Group scam It seems that once again, the Domain Renewal Group scam is doing the rounds. These people send you a letter (not an email) a few months before your domain name is due for renewal. They want you to change to them – at a cost. One of my clients fell for […]
Social Small Biz Case Study: Network Midlands Events Trevor Wood was recently interviewed by Social Small Biz about how we use social media. Here’s the interview (originally posted here) In no more than 50 words explain what your business is? Network Midlands organises business networking events around the East Midlands – Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire […]
10 rules of business networking Dr Ivan Misner, head of business referral organisation BNI, provides his 10 top tips for making business networking pay. Do you suffer from “Butterfly-itis” at the very mention of networking at business networking functions? If you answered yes, you are not alone! Many business people and entrepreneurs get a bit […]
10 reasons businesses fail to make networking work for them A little while back Andy Lopata, author of the book “..and Death Came Third! “, posted this to the “…and Death Came Third! Networking and Speaking in Public” group on Facebook. Andy has kindly given me permission to reproduce it here – thanks Andy. With […]
Cleaning up your computer In early December last year, I was contacted by one of my clients. I’ll call him Bob, to protect the innocent. Bob’s anti-virus software was reporting that he had a Trojan on his computer. Sensibly, he had run a full scan of his system, but no viruses or Trojans had shown […]
Which? recommends “Smash up your hard drive to avoid ID theft” Which? magazine as recently advised readers to physically destroy their hard disks with a hammer to prevent you becoming a victim of identity theft (full article). While this is good stress therapy, it’s not a method that we at Network Midlands recommend. We recommend […]
Data recovery – a brief case study Last week we had to recover the data off a NAS disk (a hard drive that connects to a network and is visible by all computers on a network). The disk had started dropping off the network and, eventually, no computer could access any of the files on […]