Breaking News From The Imaging Channel For 2 21 2012

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2/21/2012

Sponsors Are You Rolling the Dice With Your Business? Live Webinar Tomorrow: Managed Print Meets Managed IT Cyber-Legislation Bill Approved by House, Senate Prepares Its Own A recent article on the new Cyber-Legislation Bill says a lot about the need for every organization to assure that it is protecting its most important asset: its information. It also speaks volumes for the future of document and data management, and hopefully, it will get you to think about where you stand within your company and what role you can and will take in providing solutions for your customers. More Are You Thinking at the Speed of Print or the Speed of Content? It was just in 2009, a mere three years ago – or actually, just under 36 months – when MpS started showing up in its current form. At conferences, show floors were jam-packed with MpS propositions, companies were “all in,” and fliers had “MPS” stickers plastered all over them. But the content was still copier sales, copier leasing, toner cartridges. Today, not even 36 months along, automatic toner delivery is a standard, remote monitoring happens every day, and MpS represents a secular change – not a fad. Now we’re talking about managed services, a help desk versus a dispatch desk, and content on screens versus marks on paper. More Blogs Surprises at Konica Minolta’s 2012 Business Conference and Product Expo It’s not often that you attend a conference that surprises you (at least not in a good way), but such was Raegen Pietrucha’s experience at Konica Minolta’s 2012 Business Conference and Product Expo at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The theme of the conference was “Inspire Customer Passion,” and Pietrucha says that Konica Minolta set a strong example of how to do just that; she and the dealers among the 1,100 attendees found themselves, as Konica Minolta’s customers and guests, inspired – and that’s a pretty tall order, especially for those who’ve attended countless shows and have been in this industry since the dinosaurs bit the dust. More Musicians and Managed Print Providers Katie Fernelius recently traveled to Salt Lake City to watch her sister, a professional violinist, perform in a solo recital. As Fernelius sat there, in the beautiful theater, watching and listening to her sister perform, she thought of the career her sister chose and how hard it has been, and she started thinking that musicians and managed print providers aren’t all that different. Read on as she makes the associative leap. More View all Blogs Events Converging, Colliding & Connecting: Managed Print Meets Managed IT Live Event TOMORROW: February 22nd Join Corey Simpson of CompTIA for this one-hour webinar as he moderates for Tim Brien of OKI Data and Mark Sokol of ConnectWise in a discussion about where the industry is heading and how MSPs can better prepare their businesses for continued success within the channel. Sponsored by: OKI Data & ConnectWise

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