December 27, 2005
by Dylan Skriloff
The RBA Technology Initiative, co-chaired by Les Neumann and John Koski, was founded in 2004, primarily to help Rockland business owners discover outlets to broadband internet service.
"It's evolved to turn more knowledge about technology over to small businesses," Koski said. TI now has meetings free to RBA members almost every month detailing issues important to business owners.
"The Technology Initiative is critical because we all need the knowledge," Fran Reinstein of Devon Resources said. As a person with a natural aversion to tech knowledge she tries to attend as many of the meetings as possible to keep up with things.
Laurie Macomber's company BlueSkies Marketing, services primarily high-tech customers, so she has come to four of the TI seminars over the past year, she said. She's learned how to develop her website and has kept up with latest innovations in the field, she said.
At the group’s most recent meeting, Greg Frank of Cisco spoke to the crowd about the surging use of VoIP phone systems and Steve Alexander of Third Eye Technologies introduced his company's newest product, "Watchful Eye" to the two dozen or so RBA members in attendance.
At every meeting a different company has the opportunity to present themselves to the audience. Alexander used his introduction to talk about the threat "spyware" posed to businesses.
He said Third Eye technicians had been spending an inordinate amount of time cleaning computers of spyware. It was a drain on the business until his company developed Watchful Eye. This product keeps a computer free of spyware and has reduced his time spent sending out technicians to virtually zero. |
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