Emery FCU eNotes

Top Five Overdone Christmas Decorations

In the true spriti of Clark Griswold, one has to ask- "How long did this take to put up?" 

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Emery FCU Donates Over $8500 to Shriners Hospital

In September we hosted our 4th annual Charity Golf Scramble with a Sold Out field of play.  as a result of the charity event we were able to donate over $8,500 to the Cincinnati Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Shriners Hospitals for Children® — Cincinnati is a 30-bed pediatric burn hospital, research and teaching center and is one of the three hospitals specializing in burn care operated by Shriners Hospitals for Children®. The hospital is verified as a burn center by the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association.

Please mark your calendar for Monday, Sepember 12, 2011 for our 5th Annual Event at the Golf Center at Kings Island in Mason, OH.

 

Importance of Backing Up Data

For a brief moment this week I have felt what it has been like to be "y2k'd."  I regularly back up data to an external hard drive, albeit monthly, so I am assured to not have lost nearly as much as I could have.  Almost as a religious ritual- on or about the 1st of every month I back up the hard drive.  Unfortunately when the lid of my 3-year old ThinkPad closed on the night of Nov. 30 after watching a streamed version of the Office on hulu.com- it would be the last opportunity I would have to view anything that had been completed during the month of November.

Working as a Marketing Director and Graphic Designer that, unfortunately, encompasses more than a few megabytes of information.

As Christmas comes close and the cameras roll out of storage for all of the family gatherings at Grandma's or the kids Christmas Plays... remember to BACK UP your data (including pictures) and "unimportant" documents that you may want a few months from now.  And ABOVE ALL- if you have financial records, BACK THEM UP and store the backup in a safe location!

My financial records spanning the ten years of my marriage could have been at stake, but fortunately those records have never existed on the hard drive but have ALWAYS been on an external drive.  Therefore, my sensitive financial information is 100% up to date.

If your computer hard drive crashed right after you read this- how far back into the stone age would you be?  Fortunately because I have been in the habit of regularly backing data up- what could have caused a "heart-attack" will merely be a "migraine head-ache."

It may cost you a few "shekels" but the investment of a back up hard drive (or subscription service) is WELL WORTH the money.  I had 10 years of financial records at stake.... I can't put a price on that.

Potential Blog "Recess"

Over the next few days our Blog may be "offline"- our web administrator's (who happens to be me) computer had a fatal crash this morning.

Funny thing is, Emery FCU is looking into beginning to offer a Service Organization (CUSO) for computer services... we may have our first client in line...

To be continued...