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165: Interview With Matt Woestehoff of Foundation in Minneapolis

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Recorded July 19, 2016

CCP welcomes Matt Woestehoff Director of Business Development and Operations of The Foundation in Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Quoting Matt's Bio On The Foundation website: "Presenter, listener, growth engineer. I work with companies who understand the value of thinking ahead. We build a strong technological base so that you can Get Back to Work. We help acquire, deploy, and manage iPads, build network infrastructures to support thousands, and help entrepreneurs build their dreams. Born as Apple fan-boys, now recognizing brand-agnostic solutions for any business need. That said, we tend to work with creative agencies. Why? Because we get it. It's what we do."

You can reach Matt via email: matt@fndtn.com
On Twitter Follow The Foundation @thefndtn 

 

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Kevin Ginger, kGinger Consulting - Weldon Dodd - Rewind Tech -Mats Schwieger - envision design, llc - Adam Rice -  Daniel Escobar, Proactechs - JD Strong, Strong Solutions - Luis Giraldo, Ook and MonkeyBox

And thanks to our other wonderful supporters who chose to donate without any reward.

164: PPTP = TTFN

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Recorded July 12, 2016

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TOPICS:

- PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a method for implementing virtual private networks. PPTP uses a control channel over TCP and a GRE tunnel operating to encapsulate PPP packets.

- TTFN is an initialism for a colloquial valediction, 'ta ta for now', based on 'ta ta', an informal 'goodbye', approximately equivalent to 'bye bye' but in an easier meaning it means 'goodbye for now'. The expression came to prominence, in the UK, during the Second World War. Used by the military, it was frequently heard by the British public.

- Joe discusses being away from the office on vacation fro three weeks.

- Migrating from Kerio Mail Server to Google
- Kerio's Acquisition Of GetSynced - http://www.kerio.com/company/media-center/press-releases/kerio-technologies-announces-acquisition-getsyncd

- Prepare for removal of PPTP VPN before you upgrade to iOS 10 and macOS Sierra
- LogMeIn Hamachi - Create virtual private networks on-demand

- 146: Upgrading Late Model iMac's with JD Strong of Strong Solutions

- 157: Watchman Monitoring & Zendesk Integration - Getting Started

162: RAID ( random assortment of independent discussions )

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This weeks podcast is a RAID ( random assortment of independent discussions) starting with Episodes 1. Hopefully you will find this listen, fun and informative.

For the listeners stateside, have a happy and safe 4th of July!

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Thanks to all our Contributors: 

Kevin Ginger, kGinger Consulting - Weldon Dodd - Rewind Tech -Mats Schwieger - envision design, llc - Adam Rice -  Daniel Escobar, Proactechs - JD Strong, Strong Solutions - Luis Giraldo, Ook and MonkeyBox

And thanks to our other wonderful supporters who chose to donate without any reward.

 

160: "The Coconut Network" With Jerome Koehler

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Recorded on June 5, 2016

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TOPICS:

SAMUEL VALENCIA - TEAM V | 2016 TCS NEW YORK CITY MARATHON

Team V is the official endurance fundraising program for The V Foundation for Cancer Research. http://www.jimmyv.org

https://www.crowdrise.com/samuel-teamv/

 

 

 

 

Today we are joined by Jerome Koehler of IFIXPRO.COM from HONOLULU, HI . We discuss some of the challenges facing Apple Consultants who are making the move from "part time" consulting to "full time". This open and candid discussion examines the difficult decision of letting go of a reliable full time job and going "all in" on Apple Consulting.

158: Balanced Billing & The "Partner Plan" With Richard Wingfield Of Envision Design

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Recorded on may 31, 2016

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Richard B. Wingfield - Head Geek, Envision Design, LLC of Houston Texas:"I have been using Mac's in business since original Macintosh in '84 and Envision, as a consulting firm, has been around since 1993. Started part time as sole proprietor and 20+ years later we are now a firm of 5 full time consultants here in Houston.  

I tell people I am a "recovering architect" as I got my start in technology practicing architecture and being the "tech guy" in every firm I ever worked for. I even helped manage a DEC vax/vms system for a firm in Austin soon after graduating from The University of Texas with a degree in Architecture. 

This episode examines Richards own "recipe' for Managed Services. Here is a brief description as discussed:

… Simple Hybrid Partner Plan is setup so almost all the clients “get it” and are not confused about how it works

- 3 part invoice is made up of

- small monthly fee per device (each mac, each windows, each iOS or android, each server… fees like $25/mac or $49/windows or $250/server etc) client must enroll ALL computers in the office (cant get cheap and have some on the system and some not)

- our “consluting fee” - which is time for humans to do the work to manage, monitor, secure and maintain systems and ALWAYS includes a minimum of one 2hr visit per month

(more if needed or requested)

- fees for services or hosting (if we host kerio email or rackspace or web or crashplan backups or re-sell backblaze) 

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You can find more about Richard and  Envision design here: Web: http://www.envisiondesign.net

Twitter: @GEEKSapplied

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Daniel Escobar - Proactechs, Luis Giraldo- MonkeyBox

 

084: New Year's Resolutions 2015, Part 2

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Recorded live on January 6, 2015

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Topic:

- Business Resolutions for the New Year