Archive for August 2016
Tuesday Tip: Fresh Look at College Football Apps
by Tony Rushin College football. I can smell it in the air. Growing up as the youngest of 4 boys and with a Dad who was a high school football coach, I was destined to love football. Literally since the day I was born, football impacted my life: I was born on Friday, September 9th…
Read MoreGuided Access: Saving Parents’ Sanity One Screaming Child at a Time
Guest post by Kelly Googe Lucas, bbr marketing My first child took to my iPhone like a duck to water. At nine months old, she understood how to swipe to move between screens, knew the home button would get her back to the main screen and could do basic navigation in some apps. She was…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Introducing Google Fiber in Atlanta
By Alisa Michael Have you seen these trucks in your neighborhood? If you haven’t, you will be seeing them soon! Exciting news for Atlanta residents and businesses – Google Fiber has arrived! They have begun sign-ups and installations in Piedmont Heights and Midtown East. For those of you who live in Old Fourth Ward, construction…
Read MoreClient Satisfaction: 2016 Survey Results
Network 1 recently completed its fifth annual client satisfaction survey. By continuing to use the survey platform, Net Promoter Score, we are able to measure and understand our clients’ experience. We would like to thank our clients for participating and helping us with feedback that we’re using to improve our client services. We are again…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Google Photos – An Alternate Way to Back Up Photos
By Kate O’Neal How many of you have an ample number of photos on your iPhone that takes up the majority of your 5GB of free iCloud storage? I know I did! Thanks to one of our best Desktop Engineers, Tony Nguyen, I was introduced to Google Photos. No longer do I include my photos…
Read MoreTech Toys as Teaching Tools
About one in six kids today has a developmental disability, according to the CDC, and many of the affected children suffer from autism or a related neurological condition that creates learning challenges. Quite rare only a few decades ago, autism has exploded to reach epidemic levels; the disease now touches almost every family, and those…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Using Meditation Tech to Manage Stress
By Erin Kowtko How many of us experience stress? A show of hands please: I’d venture to guess most of us have some level of stress in our lives. I’ll admit, I get stressed out on my daily fight with I-285 traffic in Atlanta. You’d think I’d be numb to people cutting me off or…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Social Media – How Do You Figure It All Out?!
By Gillian Gracey When you type “are millennials” into Google, the second result is “are millennials lazy,” closely followed by “narcissistic” (are selfies to blame?) and “entitled.” Usually people attribute this to millennials’ affection for technology. I feel slightly offended because I am on the younger end of the “millennial” generation. However, this stereotype is…
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