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Advance Wins SmartCEO 2014 VOLTAGE Award for Technology Implementer
More than 200 business executives joined SmartCEO to celebrate 30 Voltage award finalists and seven winners at the 2014 Voltage Awards. Baltimore, MD (May 20, 2014) — Advance is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a Baltimore SmartCEO, 2014 Voltage Award winner. Advance President, Jeff Elkin, accepted the award for the Technology…
Read MoreIs Your MFD Technology Secure?
Technology is changing ever so rapidly and there has never been a better time to ensure the security of your data transmissions. In just about every business activity, data is sent or retrieved in some way or fashion to or from the cloud. For your typical end-user he or she has no idea how that…
Read MoreDo your vendors invest in your relationship? They should.
Products and services are only as good as the people delivering them. The true value added partnership is only achieved by diving deep into the customer’s business and gaining a comprehensive understanding of that business.
Read MoreSmartCEO Honors Advance as a Technology Implementer at the 2013 VOLTAGE Awards
SmartCEO magazine rolled out the red carpet last week at the Westin, BWI to celebrate 29 of Baltimore’s leading technology innovators for the 2013 VOLTAGE awards. Advance, who was nominated for its Onsite & Online remote network installation program, was the runner up in the Technology Implementer category for a large business. Stay on…
Read MoreADVANCE CEOs INDUCTED INTO MARYLAND CHAMBER’S BUSINESS HALL OF FAME
Last Wednesday, co-CEOs of Advance, Lois and Alan Elkin were honored by the Maryland Chamber of Commerce as two of four 2013 inductees into The Maryland Business Hall of Fame. “This honor not only recognizes them but also their body of work of close to 50 years,” says Jeff Elkin, president of Advance. “They are the…
Read MoreProtecting the Brand You’ve Worked So Hard to Create
It’s a common scenario: you spend countless hours working with an agency or graphic artist to create the perfect logo to represent your brand, only to find once it enters the four walls of your organization, its degradation begins. In an ideal world, the graphics police would filter each and every page that comes out…
Read MoreAdvance Stories Series: The Baltimore Ravens
It’s here. Football season. And the Ravens look fantastic! We all know they’re a great organization on the field, but we wanted to highlight and share what a great organization they are in their back office. The latest video in our Advance Stories series highlights the Ravens and how Advance has grown our partnership…
Read MoreLetterhead: Waste Not, Want Not
Shelly Holdaway is the Marketing Specialist for Advance and a guest blogger for the company. Ever held up print traffic so you could run to the copier and load a sheet of letterhead, then race back to your desk and hope no one printed on it before you did? Or maybe you’ve dedicated one of your multifunctional…
Read MoreStop the Vicious Email Cycle, Collaborate with Google Docs
As ubiquitous as Google is these days, some of its lesser known features are worth some attention, especially when it comes to file sharing and collaborating on projects. Like many people, I was accidentally introduced to Google Docs when I inadvertently selected the “open as a Google spreadsheet” option on an Excel attachment I had…
Read MoreTechnology, tablets and social media in education
In 1995, the Maryland Plan for Technology in Education was developed to serve as the foundation for the development of technological enhancements to the Maryland school system. Education is seeing a lot of change. Change in leadership, change in how students learn, and change in the way teachers teach. Many of these topics stem from…
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