2012 Jump START Your Nonprofit IMPORTANT DATES

Modern Office Methods is getting ready to kick off Season 3 of Jump START Your Nonprofit. Below are the list of important dates to keep in mind. Registration begins on Monday, June 11, so get your applications in early!

Monday, June 11 - Friday, July 6, 2012

Registration begins. Nonprofit organizations have approximately four weeks to register to win an office technology makeover. Go to www.momnet.com to register online or to download a registration form. You may also call 1-800-345-3888 to request a registration form by mail.

Online registration ends at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 6, 2012. All mailed entries must be postmarked by July 6, 2012. Mailed entries should be sent to:

                Modern Office Methods

                4747 Lake Forest Drive

                Cincinnati, Ohio 45242

Week of July 9, 2012

Finalists announced. MOM’s contest review committee will select five finalists from each market to compete in Jump START Your Nonprofit. Finalists, and their 200-word award submissions, will be posted online at www.momnet.com.

Marketing materials distributed. MOM will send jump drives of downloadable marketing material to each finalist to assist in spreading the word to encourage supporters to vote.

Monday, July 16 - Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Online voting opens. Voting will begin at 8 a.m. on Monday, July 16, 2012, and close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Nonprofit employees and their friends, families and supporters are encouraged to vote daily at www.momnet.com.

Week of August 1, 2012

Winners announced. The top vote-getter in each market will be named a Jump START Your Nonprofit winner. The winner that accumulates the most votes will earn the Grand Prize, a $20,000 technology makeover; the next highest vote-getter will receive a $10,000 technology makeover; and the winning organization with the third highest amount of votes will receive an office technology upgrade valued at $5,000.

Tech Expert Q&A - Contract Management

Question:

Our organization has looked for a contract management solution for managing our real estate leases, equipment leases, and other contracts we have with our vendors for several years. Are you aware of software that can help us with this problem?

Answer: 

This is a very common problem for any organization. Some leases and contracts have an auto-renewal clause that can become very expensive if contracts auto-renew without you being able to renegotiate better terms. MOM has an excellent software solution to fix that problem! The OfficeFlow Contract Management app will literally pay for itself by providing you the tools you need to manage, track, and automate, your contract management activities. In addition, the app can reside on your internal servers, or as a hosted solution managed by MOM!

For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

MOM is a 2012 Perfect Image Award Winner!

imageSource Magazine Announces Perfect Image Award Recipients at ITEX 2012

Las Vegas, Nevada (April 18, 2012) - imageSource Magazine today announced the businesses that received the magazine’s 2012 Perfect Image Award for outstanding achievement in a specific category. The national awards were presented to representatives from each business selected, from the imageSource Live Theater on the Expo Floor at the ITEX National Expo & Conference, by imageSource Editor-in-Chief and ITEX Conference Director, Sand Sinclair.

“We are extremely pleased with the well-deserved recognition that these dealers and resellers receive from being a recipient of an imageSource Perfect Image Award,” said Sinclair. “The fact is there are multiple business professionals doing good business today, and those that are recognized as being outstanding in creating valuable programs, processes and services, is something to be highly acknowledged.”

The imageSource Perfect Image Award recipients are selected from an impartial judging process based on a variety of factors and entry information acquired regarding a dealer’s business model and performance. The judging process includes the imageSource/ITEX Advisory Council whose members are industry consultants, dealers, leading industry associations, and vendors, as well as Questex Media Group executives on the Council. Awards are merit-based and derived from a compilation scoring process.

imageSource Magazine’s 2012 Perfect Image Award Recipients:

• Dealer of the Year: Marco
• Outstanding Sales Program: Flo-Tech
• Outstanding Service Program: Thermocopy
• Outstanding MPS Program: FlexPrint
• Outstanding Marketing Campaign: Modern Office Methods 
• Outstanding Managed Services Program: Marco
• Outstanding Use of Website Technology: Coordinated Business Systems
• Outstanding IT Services Provider: Impact Networking

                                                                                                                               

About imageSource Magazine

imageSource Magazine is a property of Questex Media Group LLC, a global diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, MA. The company’s media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. In addition to imageSource Magazine, website and eNewsletters, Questex also produces ITEX National Expo & Conference (www.itexshow.com), the nation’s largest event in the office solutions channel, and Solutions Summit (www.solutionssummit.net), an innovative, invitation-only, C-level event for the office solutions channel. For more information, visit www.questex.com. 

Tech Expert Q&A - iPads, Sales, & Printing

Question: 

The company I work for just purchased 200 iPads for our sales representatives. Is there a way we can print from these devices to our corporate printers?

Answer: 

Mobile printing is a topic that has really taken off. MOM has several OfficeFlow Mobile Printing solutions that will easily allow your users with iPad, iPhone, Android phones, Android tablets, and other mobile devices to print to your existing network printers!  In addition, you can also email print jobs, or use secure print technology to release your print jobs right from your device.  No network is too small or large for these mobile printing solutions. In addition, you won't need to purchase new printers to accomplish your mobile printing goals!


For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

Tech Expert Q&A - Electronic Forms Solution

Question:

I work for a large health care provider and we are interested in finding a way to replace all the paper forms our health care workers complete out in the field with an electronic solution?

Answer: 

This is a very timely topic. Many industries are in the process of revamping paper-based workflows to increase productivity and reduce costs. We have the perfect solution to do just what you requested! It is called the eWriter. The eWriter is a business-class tablet that’s as lite as a small clipboard, as thin as most paper notepads (less than a third of an inch in profile), and connects to your corporate workflows via WiFi or Wide Area Network cellular connection. It provides the smoothest writing experience and fast-forms processing on the market today and maximum “untethered” portability for carrying the equivalent of an entire forms binder from point-to-point. Data can be captured via stylus, camera, voice recorder or soft keyboard. Utilizing the latest in electronic-ink display technology, the eWriter provides a crisp black-and-white 9.7 inch screen with the same appearance and readability of printed paper.

For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

Managed Print Services - How MOM can help with your printer needs...

FleetCare™ Putting You in Control of Your Printing Costs! 

Whether your office utilizes four printers or 400 printers, MOM’s FleetCare™ solution delivers the answers you need to questions you had not even known should be asked. Are printers operating at full capacity? Is frequent maintenance on a printer due to improper workload utilization? Are we paying higher energy costs as a result of antiquated equipment?

 

MOM supplies you the answers needed to increase effectiveness while maximizing the output of your printer fleet. Organized in a series of easily understood screens, the detailed reports enable managers to optimize usage, more proficiently diagnose problems as they occur and painlessly right-size the printing fleet by boosting efficiencies and reducing output costs.

 

Within minutes of a quick, easy installation, MOM’s Assessment & Management Utility (AMU) begins pulling detailed information from networked output devices, including the vast majority of printers, copiers, faxes and multi-function peripherals in use today. Powerful analytical tools then translate the raw data into useful reports, accessible anytime via Web interface. Reports include:

 

·         Current status for all networked output devices 

·         Supply levels

·         Page counts/meter reads

·         Model descriptions

·         Serial and asset numbers

·         Printer locations

·         Utilization and page coverage

·         Cost/page tracking

·         Automated service alerts

·         Historical trend reports 

For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

Tech Expert Q&A - Marketing & QR Codes

Question:
We generate invoices every month, and would like to use these mailings to feature other products we sell that would benefit existing clients. Is there a cost-effective way to enhance our invoices to market clients this way?

Answer:

MOM sells software that can do exactly what you are asking about. MOM’s OfficeFlow Output applications can create personalized advertisements on services and products not yet purchased by the customer!  By using information contained in the invoice, OfficeFlow can be configured to automatically add complimentary product recommendations for your customers.  Another popular use of OfficeFlow today is to create personalized QR Codes to link directly to a customer’s web personal page! This is a software application that can take your business to new heights and maximize your product distribution with existing customers.

For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

Tech Expert Q&A - Mobile Workforce

Question: 
Our company is very interested in using smartphones and tablets for doing work in the field. However, we don't know how we can print from these devices?

Answer: 

Smartphones and tablets are very portable devices, and solve many problems for mobile workforce users. However, until recently it was difficult to print from these devices. MOM's Mobile Solution Team has several great solutions that work with the wide variety of tablet and smartphone operating systems that run these devices. Contact one of our MOM Mobile Solution Team consultants today and find out which solution best matches your mobile workforce needs!

For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

Tech Expert Q&A - Why Managed Print Services?

Question:

We recently received some literature in the mail about a service where someone else takes care of our printers. Our IT staff is already swamped with projects. What can you tell me about this service?


Answer:
Managed Print Services or MPS is one of the fastest growing part's of MOM's business today. The Wall Street Journal reported that document imaging is often a company's largest uncontrolled expense. Many organizations are overwhelmed with the number of IT projects that they are working on, and maintaining office printers is low on the priority list. MOM's MPS program can take the burden off of over-worked support staff and help manage the costs of printing in the office. In this way, your office printers are maintained by trained and certified technicians, supplied with toner, and software to help determine the most cost effective devices for printing. In addition, we offer software reporting tools to augment the most efficient, and cost effective use of your printer output devices.


For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.

Tech Expert Q&A - The Cloud

Question:
As the IT Director for a regional manufacturing company, I have been looking for a document management solution that is hosted off-site so all of my other manufacturing facilities can easily access the system. This would enable my business to have better access to our documents, and a better disaster recovery system. What is your experience?


Answer:

Great topic. The time is right to start thinking about moving more of your applications to the Internet, or "the Cloud" as some call it.  The technology, security, and bandwidth are there and the technology is mature and stable.  Many very large and small organizations are moving critical applications like email, databases, and file storage to the Cloud.  MOM has several Cloud-based solution offerings.  Cloud-based applications have a lot of advantages: 24x7 up-time, feature-rich software, and the fact that you pay as you go, and don't spend precious capital on servers that have a limited life-span.  One of the biggest reasons clients move to the Cloud is because of all the financial advantages these solutions afford them.


For more information about the products and services Modern Office Methods can help your office with, visit our website at www.momnet.com.