Posts by Richard Steed

Last-Minute Report Due On a Thursday afternoon I remembered I had to write a report for the upcoming General Annual Meeting by the end of the week. To help with…

Ever played the game, Two Truths and a Lie? In this group activity, each person shares two unknown but true things about themselves and then makes up one that isn’t…

Problems and Solutions for Paper-Based Information Theft Problems Identity theft has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. The likelihood of becoming a victim is uncomfortably high: An identity theft…

Astonishing Facts About 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated daily. There are currently over 44 zettabytes of data in the digital universe. Only 10% of that data is unique…

Myth Busters When I was a kid, we often played Monopoly, the most-popular board game in the world. For years, we followed the rule that fees were always paid to…

Simplified Definition A Certificate of Destruction is a document so simple it may seem unimportant. If we define each word in the phrase, it looks like this: Certificate: A document…

To Be or not To Be Whether it be love, a circumstance, or an opportunity that comes or goes, many of us feel that no matter our preference, what happens…

Two Choices Acetaminophen is a medication that eases pain like headaches. A file purge is the process of removing excess files to prevent headaches. The former is reactive, while the…

If you have an office or business at home, you might assume that: DIY shredding is the most convenient and affordable means of document destruction Privacy laws don’t apply to…

If I asked you who Bernie Taupin was, would you know that he wrote the lyrics to most of Elton John’s songs, including some of his biggest hits, like Goodbye…