The Times Union has a nice write-up about a common dilemma that reared its ugly head recently: public schools with not enough money. While they (thankfully) don’t all look like School #4, just a little under a third (56) of…
Is Jacksonville ready for electric scooters?
With all the great projects happening or planned for Downtown Jacksonville, are we ready for the app-driven, GPS enabled, rentable electric scooters to make an appearance? The basic idea is that: GPS enabled, electric scooters are made available, basically everywhere…
HP is Moving ‘Thousands’ Of MPS Accounts To Reseller Partners
HP announced some pretty significant changes to how their Managed Print Services customer-base is serviced. One change, specifically, will affect a ‘small subset’ of their partner resellers, but will have a pretty wide impact: HP will be moving ‘thousands’ of…
Copier companies are missing out: real network scanners
I get asked fairly often about high speed networked scanners, as in scanners that can push a file to an email or folder destination. The person I’m talking with wants to scan like a copier but without the copier… Meaning, they want…
Reading List: Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
I really enjoyed this book. I knew a little about the author, Peter Thiel- his history with PayPal, venture capital investment, support for Trump, and something to do with Hulk Hogan, but I didn’t really know what to expect. Based…
Jacksonville Networking: JAX Chamber T&L Council
I stopped by the JAX Chamber Transportation & Logistics Council (T&L Council) luncheon on Thursday. It has been mentioned to me several times that this is the ‘best’ council… Of course, President Scott Lane of Beaver Street Fisheries also made…
Xerox honored by McAfee as OEM Innovator of the Year
Xerox was just recognized by McAfee as the “OEM Innovator of the Year, 2018” 25 Partners received awards based on their commitment and contribution to McAfee’s business strategies, with Xerox being the only digital imaging / copier company to be…
Reading list: Superconnector by Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh
Superconnector is a book that aims to get people to “Stop networking and start connecting.” The authors, Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh, contend that the old way of networking, simply collecting names and business cards instead of really connecting and building…
Economic Roundtable of Jacksonville meeting: Housing Market Update
The Economic Roundtable of Jacksonville hosted a talk on Tuesday about the state of the Housing Market. Chris Butler, managing partner of DF Capital Management LLC, (associated with Dreamfinders Homes) spoke about the housing market in general, and Jacksonville, specifically.…
Skip the Inbox: Automate your Scanning Workflows
One of the most prevalent ways to scan documents is via the copier’s scan to email function. (Full disclosure: I scan to email pretty much every single day) It’s completely understandable, because it’s easier: your inbox is already open it’s…