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29Mar

Why Twitter Is Better Than Facebook For Business

Social Media for businesses in Medicine Hat is starting to take shape now with more and more businesses jumping online and using social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. What’s impressive is that businesses are actually starting to get a handle on how to use these platforms effectively, building relationships with their […]

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29Mar

How To Find A Good IT Support Company In Medicine Hat

With our reliance on technology being so high, one of the worst things that a business can go through is when their computers and other IT systems go down. In today’s business world, the amount of information on our technology systems is so immense, that not having access to it can almost bring a business […]

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15Mar

Why Monitoring Your Backup Is Critical

All of the discussion these days is around backup. Make sure you’re backing up your data – offsite, in the cloud, to a drive etc. However, something that’s often missed is checking on that backup solution and making sure that a) It’s actually backing  up as it is designed to, and b) That if you […]

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25Jan

Partek Becomes Lenovo Business Partner

    Partek has become a Lenovo Business Partner.  Lenovo is an exciting, innovate company that will play a critical role in allowing Partek to provide the best offering of services and products to our clients. Lenovo offers a variety of PC hardware products such as laptops, desktops, servers, and tablets. Partek is already a […]

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25Jan

Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset: Your Data

Operating a business in 2013 without some form of technology is near impossible. It may be your smartphone with your email, a computer running Simply Accounting, or a server with thousands of files and your main database. In anycase, this vast amount of data is key to your business. Imagine running your business without email, […]

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06Jan

Why Your Website Needs to be Mobile Friendly

It didn’t seem like long ago that Medicine Hat businesses were asking the question “do we need a website”? (Not you though, you high tech person. Right?).  The reality was though, if you didn’t have a quality web presence, people aren’t going to find you, trust in you, and ultimately purchase from you. But a […]

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29Dec

Business technology trends to watch for in 2013

With a new year less than a week away, we thought we’d highlight some of the top technology trends set to help business owners in 2013. 1. Mobility. Recent numbers are showing that the  number of smart phones sold in 2011 exceeded the number of PCs sold. This is a sure sign that an increasingly mobile […]

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10Dec

Is your IT provider certified? Why it matters.

There seems to be an array of companies popping up these days that provide “IT Services”, and to the average person, they’re probably all the same. Most businesses will think “if they can fix a computer, great!”. But there’s some important questions you should be asking before your hand over the keys to your entire […]

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12Nov

Why Email Marketing is Better Than Social Media

Email is still the best online marketing channel. What? Isn’t Tik Tok and Twitter all the rage? Well, these sites certainly get all of the attention, but the reality is, there are many reasons why email marketing should be your number one priority: Social Media as  a whole has a short lifespan Social media and […]

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30Oct

Partek Partners with MedHatMovember 2012

We’ve once again partnered with MedHatMovember for this year’s Movember initiative. Team MedHatMovember raised over $47,000 in the month of November last year, as over 130 guys grew their stache’s to astronomical proportions. In a few short days we’ll do it all over again, this year setting our sights higher and aiming to raise $60,000 […]

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25Oct

Getting Ready for Windows 8

Windows 8 is set to launch this month (Friday, October 26th to be exact), including a number of new versions as well as the new Microsoft Tablet, Surface.  While we’ve had glimpses of the new OS for a few months, consumers and businesses will likely have a number of questions about the update. What will […]

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24Oct

Six Reasons to Move Your Small Business to the Cloud

To move to the cloud or not? It’s quickly becoming one of the biggest questions facing small businesses today. Especially since the rise of companies offering cloud based solutions , more and more organizations are reevaluating whether or not to buy on-premise software or subscribe to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While total economics are a major consideration […]

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21Oct

Using The Cloud. Why Small Businesses Need To Get With The Times.

Ahhh, the good old ‘Cloud‘. It’s been around for a while now, but it appears most small businesses just don’t know what it is and what it can really do for them. The reality is a lot of smaller businesses are inadvertently passing up the chance to save money and improve efficiency – and it’s […]

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13Oct

Chamber of Commerce Business Awards

Last night the Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual business awards. The night was a huge success with many great businesses being represented in one room. There were well over 500 attendees and the evening was well done. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners of last night’s awards. Partek […]

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27Sep

Backup vs. Business Continuity

Over the past few years, technology has come a long way when it comes to backup for you business data. Tape and disk backup used to be the best option for businesses to backup their data. Today there is a wide variety of backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions available that offer small and […]

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17Sep

Important Information Regarding End of Support for Windows XP

On April 8th, 2014, Microsoft will terminate it’s extended support of Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Office 2003. Why is this important? What does it mean for the over 45% of commercial computer users that are still running Windows XP? We’ll be discussing these points and more over the next few weeks as […]

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