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May 18, 2012 – CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti is pleased to announce the acquisition of information technology firm, PBnJ Solutions to its Technology Partners services group. As part of the acquisition, Paul Winkeler, CISSP joins the firm as principal.

Winkeler’s experience with PBnJ Solutions includes management services, telecommunications and data protection.  His skill set complements and expands the Technology Partners’ existing services offerings, as he brings on an assortment of...

Maybe you've heard about "the cloud," but you're not sure what it is or if it's right for your your business. Brian Rosenfelt, principal at Skoda Minotti Technology Partners, helps clients figure that out all the time.

The following excerpt is taken from a recent blog on the HP website, and features Brian Rosenfelt and his approach to making the right cloud computing decisions for his business clients:

When business clients call IT consultant Brian Rosenfelt for help and advice about cloud...

This month's Strategic Connection includes:

• Trade Show Marketing Strategy
• Free Pay-Per-Click Analysis
• Latest Strategic Marketing News:
  • Facebook Brand Pages Convert to Timeline
  • Google Reveals Top Three Online Advertising Trends
  • 25 Tips to Build Your LinkedIn Following

Featured E-book: Trade Show Marketing Strategy,

Trade shows are likely one of the biggest marketing investments that you'll make all year and a great chance to meet face-to-face with your key prospects. Are you really sure you're getting...

When done correctly, blogging can be a great (and cost-effective) way to supplement business goals. Yet, a lot of companies have yet to adopt blogging, because they don’t understand the value it can bring to their organization.

Here are some how-tos that explain what you should be doing to optimize your corporate blog for online searches, (and that will help your company get the most value from blogging):

1. Do your keyword research. Using free tools like Google Keyword Tool, you can easily find...

This month's issue of IT Informer inlcudes the following articles:

• Tablets for Business Use: Top 5 Mistakes That Early Adopters Have Made
• HIPAA/HITECH Provisions Affect Medical Practices and Their Business Associates
• Skoda Minotti Employee Earns Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Designation
• Now QuickBooks Users Can Gain Access to Company Information Anytime,

AnywhereTablets for Business Use: Top 5 Mistakes That Early Adopters Have Made

According to a recent article in The Wall Street...

May 1, 2012 – CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti, a CPA business and financial advisory firm, was recently recognized for having one of the “Best Accounting Firm Taglines” as reported by Accounting Today magazine’s website.

The firm’s “Delivering on the Promise.” tagline was launched in 2007 by Skoda Minotti’s Strategic Marketing group, and has publicly become a promise that speaks to the firm’s four core audiences.

“Delivering on the promise is a daily reminder to our clients, business contacts, employees...

April 23, 2012 – CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti, a CPA, business and financial advisory firm, is proud to announce that Gregory Skoda, Jr. recently earned the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designation, through Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

With this designation, Skoda joins a group of world renowned professionals who audit, control, monitor and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems.

The CISA designation was created for...

April 19, 2012 – CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti, a CPA business and financial advisory firm, is proud to announce that Bob Goricki, online marketing manager for Skoda Minotti Strategic Marketing, recently passed the Google AdWords Advertising Fundamentals Exam and the Reporting & Analysis Advanced Exam. By passing these two exams Goricki is now Google AdWords qualified.

With this status, Goricki is recognized as an expert in best practices for running and managing AdWords online advertising campaigns,...

Thanks to Brad Nellis of the Northeast Ohio Software Association (NEOSA) for a great interview and article on his blog, highlighting Skoda Minotti and its extensive technology and telecommunications practice - Skoda Minotti Technology Partners.

Read an exerpt of the article below:

NEOSA members are a diverse lot: software companies, web companies, IT services and so forth. But our membership also includes an IT services provider embedded in a CPA firm, Skoda Minotti Technology Partners. It does...

This month's issue of IT Informer inlcudes the following articles:

• Skoda Minotti Acquires Core Information Management
• Mobile Technology: How has it Revolutionalized the Real Estate and Construction Industries?
• How an Information Technology Expert Can Ensure You're Making the Right Choices
• Are Your Most Trusted Employees Leaking Your Company's Most Important Data?
• Why Should Your Company Have a Data Loss Prevention Plan?

Skoda Minotti Acquires Core Information Management

Skoda Minotti is pleased to...

CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti is pleased to announce the acquisition of Core Information Management, Inc. As a part of the acquisition, Joseph Compton, CISSP, CISA joins the firm as principal in charge of Skoda Minotti Financial Institution Services Group.

“Joe has spent the last 15 years helping clients in the financial institution industry solve compliance and security management challenges and has developed a very specific skill set that can benefit our current financial institution clients...

CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti has been selected as one of the most successful companies in Northeast Ohio by Inside Business Magazine. The publication has been awarding its NEO Success Awards, based on revenue and employment growth, since 1994.  This will be Skoda Minotti’s sixth recognition for this honor.

“We’re honored to be named winners of this prestigious award, among so many of our clients,” said Skoda Minotti chairman Greg Skoda. “Our goal is to continue delivering on the promise of new and...

This month's issue of IT Informer includes the following articles:

• 5 Questions to ask your Online Backup Provider 
• Mobile Device Users Beware: Security Holes Do Exist
• HIPAA Audits Coming Your Way - Are You Prepared?
• Featured Product: Get a FREE Web Design Consultation for Your Company's Website

5 Questions to ask your Online Backup Provider

Competition is fierce in the exploding online backup industry. With so many providers, whom can you trust with your data? You must expect your backup provider to...

Now that you know how to write web copy to support your website’s SEO, you’re ready optimize that copy even further for use on the Internet. By taking that web copy and adding in some on-page optimization tactics, you’ll be able to tell search engines exactly what topics your web pages cover and which keywords are most important on each individual web page.

On-page optimization is all about using your targeted keywords strategically. We talked in my previous blog (SEO How-To: How to write web...

Now, we're going to talk about some steps that you can take to successfully implement your data loss prevention plan.

1. Identify Key Participants – Assemble those that should be involved internally when you identify data loss. Participants may include IT, HR, and Operations employees.  Identify the individuals and meet with them to work out what situations they will need to be involved in.

2. Develop Notification Process – Do you have processes ready if a regulated data breach occurs? Who will...

Competition is fierce in the exploding online backup industry. With so many providers, whom can you trust with your data? You must expect your backup provider to have a solution that will get you back their data when you come asking for it. Fewer issues are more sensitive than lost or corrupt data.

Finding a place to backup data is easy these days, but discerning which provider can get back the verifiably correct data all the time every time is much harder. Slick websites and smooth-talking...

So, you’ve decided to implement a Data Loss Prevention solution for your business, but you have no idea how it works. We can fix that.

First, we need to identify the three major categories of data for you:

1. Data in Motion:  Any data that is moving throughout the network (especially from inside the network to outside the network via the internet)

2. Data at Rest:  Data that is stored on file servers, databases, backup drives, mail servers, etc.

3. Data at the Endpoint:  Data that resides on...

This month's issue of IT Informer includes the following articles:

• Is Your Company Protected Against Data Loss?
• Choosing the Right Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Solution for Your Business
• Featured Product: Email Archiving - How Can Email Archiving Help Your Business?

In our last blog article, entitled What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP), we discussed the definition of DLP and why it’s important to understand. Your data is your company’s most valuable asset – and ensuring that the data is protected against “internal” threats is just as important as securing it against outside threats.

For most companies, data loss is largely attributed to employees.  According to a recent Gartner report:
 

• 1 in every 400 messages contains confidential data
• 1 in every 50 network...

This month's issue of IT Informer includes the following articles:

• Happy Holidays from Skoda Minotti!
• The Tablet Revolution and Why it Matters to Your Small Business's Technology Plan
• Five Common Ways Your Employees Put Your Company's Data at Risk Using Mobile Devices
• We've Expanded Our Helpdesk to Support Your Technology Needs
• Skoda Minotti's Brian Rosenfelt Listed as COSE Mindspring Expert
• 3CX Phone System Case Study

Happy Holidays from Skoda Minotti! 

We would like to wish you and your family...