Many years ago I worked with a lovely lady named Connie who always told me to, “inspect what you expect”. Â That lesson came home recently because my blog, that should post every Tuesday, stopped working. Â Now no one was sitting around waiting for my next blog post, but at the same time, because I didn’t check in on it to make sure the automated process was working, when it stopped, I didn’t know. The same can happen with tasks you assign other people. You can have all the confidence in the world in someone but things happen and if you don’t double check, they might not happen. The other great thing about her advice was to follow up on those things you expect to be done. Â The corollary is what you inspect is what others will assume is expected. Â So if you constantly ask about […] Continue reading
Two of My Favorite Things
Recently I’ve had a few people ask my “favorite” this and my “favorite” that and it got me thinking. I have a few random favorites that would be fun to share! Excel Function – VLOOKUP I can’t tell you how many times I have been confronted with needing data in one spreadsheet to have a field or 6 from another. And they are never 10 records – always several thousand. That’s where VLOOKUP comes in. You tell it to match a field from one sheet to another, and when it finds a match, bring over additional data. AWESOME! So how do you use it? Here’s an example: A client exported a list of customers from their contact management system, added a bunch of information and then realized they forgot the company name. Email is a unique identifier so we were able to run a VLOOKUP […] Continue reading
Microsoft Security Essentials Still the Right Choice
I am definitely a PC. At one point in my life I was considered the “Mac goddess” in a tech support department (only woman willing to do support on the Mac so I won the title) but got away from it shortly thereafter. I just don’t think like a Mac and have trouble with a variety of Apple products. That’s how it is. And with every life choice, there are good things and bad things with this. I can run any piece of software I want. On the other hand, so can all those malicious code writers who want to steal things from me or just screw stuff up. So I have to be somewhat versed in anti-malware programs. I have loved Microsoft Security Essentials since it first came out and have been impressed by its small footprint and how well it plays with others. […] Continue reading
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