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I received my December copy of The Harvard Business Review today. I was only semi-surprised to see Social Media Branding on the cover. There are 3 great articles but one peaked my interest the most. Patrick Spenner's "Why you need a New-Media Ringmaster" brings three key attributes of a ring master into play: Lean Collaboration Skills, Integrative Thinking and High Speed. I completely agree. I would post a link to the article, but it's not on-line yet. Get a hard copy and read this one yourself if you're in the social media space.

Tonight's post in our series relates specifically to Fraud Prevention. To understand those we need to talk about the following areas exploited by criminals to gain your identity: phishing and email scams, spam, passwords, and shopping. Click on this link: Microsoft Computer Security and the Fraud Prevention tab learn about these specific topics in greater detail.

Continuing our quick blog posts on computer security this week, one can think of two main topics: Fraud Prevention and Data protection. Fraud prevention in this context is the actions one takes using processes or tools on the computer to prevent someone from taking your identity or personal information to impersonate you in a fradulent act. Data protection relates to the tools and processes to protect the data on your computer from being lost or destroyed from accident, theft or equipment failure. More later, but that is the setup. More here on Microsoft's site if you can't wait.

There are some short, quick and simple things that you as a user can do in order to protect yourself and your data. Some of our upcoming blogs from The Computer Place will be aimed at helping getting you to some tools easily. And while the tendency is to focus on the "software" or techie tools, we're going to just focus on some "process", "policy" or just plain "know how". We're also going to try to keep it in some "plain speak". We can start with this URL for the purpose of our next few blogs as it is sweet and simple Microsoft Computer Security.