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IT from Multi-function Devices to Social Media, Help to Boost Firms

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by Michelle Leach
The Lincoln Business Journal

Businesses have powerful ammunition to fight the fall-out of the recession: new technology. But tech experts contend many businesses don’t know what’s out there and don’t understand the splash that can be made by implementing a new tool or process.
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Five Nines Technology is getting noticed through both Twitter and Facebook, and recently launched a blog.

“We found many businesses and individuals within the community who asked us for specific thoughts about technology,” said Ben Pankonin. “A blog provides a unique way for us to communicate with clients, prospects and even other IT partners within our industry.”

Pankonin said the use of blogs and other types of viral communication isn’t anything new to IT firms.

“But many IT professionals are not accustomed to communicating these concepts to business leaders, only other people who speak their language,” he said.

The Five Nines’ blog, “Boardroom Ideas,” offers clients tips on how to solve problems through IT, according to its Web site.

As for the future of IT, one need only look at what kids in junior high are doing, Pankonin said.

“Middle-school students don’t need advanced server infrastructures to communicate effectively with dozens of friends; they do it through utilizing a network of tools that can share information,” he said. “Tomorrow’s businesses will rely heavily on outsourced hardware, software and services – cloud-based computing and software as a service.”


Welcome to Boardroom Ideas

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Welcome to our Boardroom Ideas blog. We are excited to have a way of communicating with clients and the community on a regular basis, and hope to bring up some things that may help you and your business be more effective. As time goes by we will be posting different ways we are helping our clients solve problems, technologies that we see emerging that may be useful, and ideas on how to solve business problems both from an IT perspective. Finally, we hope that through this we can give you an insight into some of the things that you get when you engage a company that wants to be your IT company, CIO, and business partner.

You will notice that there will be a number of contributors, which should keep the content fresh and new. We will try to keep this updated on a weekly basis, so make sure you check back regularly!

Nick Bock