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Back up your computer into the ether-net. Why? If you use a physical backup on your office, and you are hit with fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, theft, spilling a juicy box on it!… or other mayhem , you’ll have lost it all.

Mozy is an extremely affordable backup system, I use it.  Mozy also lets you tap into your harddrive from anywhere in the world. You can’t do that with a physical hard drive sitting at home in your office.

You don’t even know it’s backing up several times a day.

Find out more at Mozy Online Backup

 If you have a website or blog and are tired of being in the fetal position trying to figure out how to get video onto your site, here’s a site that can help you out!

http://websitehelpers.com/video/ 

If you know anything about Oprah, you know that after 25 years she is ending her long and amazing run from her regular TV channel after next Wednesday! Wow! Can you believe that?

I don’t watch her show that often, but I absolutely respect and admire her, like millions of others.

I just saw this sneak preview of her Monday and Tuesday shows, a gala affair honoring her in 2 parts. Catch them if you can!

Then, of course, watch her HER new channel – OWN!

Hmmm, think of all the little, powerful words that can be made from Oprah Winfrey Network, like OWN, WON, and NOW! Cool!

Go, Oprah!

Here are some choice Oprah Nuggets!

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.
    The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
    Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
    Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

Thank you, Oprah! See you on OWN!

The IRS doesn’t care how you keep your records . . . as long as the numbers add up and match your records if you’re ever audited. Always think “prove” when keeping paperwork, hardcopy or electronic. If audited, you have to “prove” – have “proof” – of what you say you lost (expenses) or gained (income). 

Here are quick tips straight from the horses, er, IRS’s mouth!  

1. Use your checkbook to keep a record of your income and expenses: record amounts, sources of deposits, and types of expenses.

2. Keep documents such as receipts and sales slips, that can help prove a deduction.

3. Keep your records in an orderly fashion for easy access to questions.

4. Keep them in a safe place.

5. Store/file by year and type of income or expense in a labeled box or envelope.

ELECTRONIC RECORDS

All requirements that apply to hard copy books and records also apply to electronic storage systems that maintain tax books and records. When you replace hard copy books and records, you must maintain the electronic storage systems for as long as they are material to the administration of tax law.

An electronic storage system is any system for preparing or keeping your records either by electronic imaging or by transfer to an electronic storage media. The electronic storage system must index, store, preserve, retrieve, and reproduce the electronically stored books and records in a legible, readable format. All electronic storage systems must provide a complete and accurate record of your data that is accessible to the IRS.

Home tax software like QuickBooks should be fine.

Electronic storage systems are also subject to the same controls and retention guidelines as those imposed on your original hard copy books and records.

The original hard copy books and records may be destroyed provided that the electronic storage system has been tested to save and store them effectively.

You still have the responsibility of retaining any other books and records that are required to be retained.

MORE IRS GUIDELINES

To read more on the following topics, go to http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/

• Why Keep Records?
• Kinds of Records To Keep
• Basic Records
• Specific Records
• How Long To Keep Records
• How To Get Tax Help
• Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs)

Borders Bookstore could close? Barnes & Noble close behind?

That’s blasphemy!

It was a big article in the paper recently.  Why this downturn?

Ebooks and electronic reading devices are taking their toll on our beloved book stores. A $550-million line a credit to keep Borders afloat may not be enough if we don’t buy more books at our local stores.

I’m a “real book” person. I have to flip pages, pick them up, stack them up, pile them around, dust them off, write and draw in them, highlight and dog ear them. That’s how my brain works best to remember information. I’m tactile and visual. I have to touch the page and feeeeel it. I’ve been told that I can highlight on an e-reading device. Sorry, it’s just not the same.

Captain Jean Luk-Picard always had a few “classic” real books from “the past” in his quarters. The rest? Paperless, e-reading all the way.

I’m not there yet. Don’t know that I’ll ever be.

I’ve offered lots of presentations at my local Borders too. What else can we do there!

If you want to see your favorite bookstores with real books in them survive and thrive… organize your time and money around buying your next books at the store instead of online or electronic always. Spend time browsing and being around other real book lovers and meanderers like me!

Paper, paper everywhere… over 80% of the paper most people have is either out-of-date or will never be used again.

THE 5 D’S OF EFFECTIVE PAPER MANAGEMENT
   A) Do it
   B) Delay it (File it in an action file to do with a deadline, or archive file)
   C) Delegate it (autopayments are a way of delegating)
   D) Dump it (trash, shred, recycle)
   E) Delete it (email!)

TIP: OPEN MAIL OVER “FILE 13″: The trash, recycle bin or shredder  

 - Start with your daily mail first.Quickly open daily mail right over the wastebasket, recycling container or shredder box.  - Dump everything unnecessary, then, sort and take action on the rest immediately – so it doesn’t have a chance to pile up.

Ali Brown always shares the right stuff! “Run Your Business From Home? Here’s 10 Ways to Be More Productive” http://tinyurl.com/33ku4o6

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 HELP! Too many websites, newsletters, blogs and other online sites that need a user-name and password can be maddening. Ever forget one and waste a bunch of time and energy trying to remember it and keying in possibilities?

Or, maybe you have little slips of paper with your passwords and web addresses stacked up or stuck to your computer, or in a dog-eared notebook. Not the most efficient system.It really isn't your brain's job to keep track of all those. You need a "system." So, what to do? Two that I recommend are below.