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		<title>Overview of Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BLKINC and associate firms provide small business management and hosted technology services: Finance (planning, reporting) Tax (federal, state, local) Accounting (cloud-based systems, configuration, deployment, management, user training) Collaboration (cloud-based document exchange and project management) Communications (secure/unified voice, email, instant messaging, video conferencing, desktop sharing) Private Cloud  (secure/private virtual servers for mission-critical applications) Open Source (Linux, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Tax Compliance and Reporting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal tax returns for BLKINC clients (corporate, partnership, individual) are produced and filed by associate, Waller &#38; Waller CPAs (Seattle, WA). I’ve teamed up with Waller &#38; Waller for over twenty years. Together, we address a comprehensive range of tax compliance and planning issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Technology for Small Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 22:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Private cloud, unified communications and collaboration services for BLKINC clients are provisioned and supported by Chinook Communications (Seattle, WA). Chinook and parent company, Implement.Com, were founded by hosted technology pioneer, Steve Schwartz. BLKINC has provided tax and accounting support to Chinook and Implement since the founding of these firms. Chinook provisions the hosted platform I use for communication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sage in the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2012/05/03/sage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sage</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sage accounting systems provide a wide range of options for financial reporting, project budgets, billings, time keeping, payroll, receivable and payable management. The Sage product line includes industry specific systems which can be hosted on a private cloud server through BLKINC associate, Chinook Communications.]]></description>
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		<title>Intuit QB Online</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2012/05/03/intuit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=intuit</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intuit&#8217;s Quickbooks Online is a great product and system &#8211; one that I have configured for many companies. The feature set is solid and conducive to self-management, allowing owners and staff to handle accounting, budgets, billings, vendors, payroll, and project tracking &#8211; all online, from any device, anywhere. As an accounting and tax advisor, having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Replace Landlines</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2012/03/17/replace-landlines/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=replace-landlines</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the service offering from BLKINC and Chinook includes hosted voice &#8212; to replace landlines, reduce costs, and provide better features, functions and access from any desktop or device. Steve Schwartz, founder of Chinook Communications, recently posted this observation: Essentially, telecom services for small and medium sized business are transitioning to encompass high quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice Integration</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2012/02/25/total-connect/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=total-connect</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few notes about Total Connect, provided by BLKINC technology partner, Chinook Communications: Chinook Communications has announced the introduction of a new service offering that makes advanced collaboration and communications tools available to small and medium-sized businesses. The service, a fully integrated bundle called Total Connect, is the first ever production release worldwide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LibreOffice at Zero Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For business owners that want to reduce software costs, LibreOffice is an open source alternative to MS Office that works on PC, Mac, and Linux platforms. The LibreOffice feature set is comparable and the file formats are compatible with MS Office. Check it out. It&#8217;s free.]]></description>
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		<title>Lync for Secure IM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lync provides secure instant messaging for project teams, eliminating endless email exchanges on every new issue. All instant messages are automatically logged and saved for reference in a conversation history folder. Here&#8217;s a one minute video demonstration.]]></description>
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		<title>SharePoint &#8211; Out of the Box Features</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2011/12/26/sharepoint-features/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sharepoint-features</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SharePoint (hosted by Chinook Communications) provides a full set of online collaboration tools, out of the box, including: document and photo sharing discussion boards schedule and task management blogs issue tracking form libraries sub-sites fine-grained permission settings]]></description>
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		<title>Secure Data Centers</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2011/12/22/data-centers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=data-centers</link>
		<comments>http://www.blkincmt.com/2011/12/22/data-centers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working in the cloud requires secure data centers on the ground.  Chinook provisions services to BLKINC clients from enterprise-class data centers: Private cloud servers are managed from Tier3. Voice, Lync, Exchange, and SharePoint services are provisioned from inside the Fortress Colocation Center.]]></description>
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		<title>Lync Feature Example</title>
		<link>http://www.blkincmt.com/2011/12/17/escalate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=escalate</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another Lync feature example: a user starts an instant message, chatting with a team member about a project issue, then decides (with a click) to escalate the conversation up to voice; clicks again, to add desktop sharing; clicks again to add video conferencing. Along the way, the user can drag and drop other contacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SharePoint and Spreadsheets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project managers and administrators often keep spreadsheets tucked away on their desktops and devices. At a minimum, we want these files secured inside SharePoint.  Users can log in through their browser, open and edit in the cloud, without having the files touch any local drive. Users can also determine whether or not to share the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Mint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Kulkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before spending capital on replacing old office computers, consider this option: Aging desktops (and laptops)  can be revived in under an hour&#8217;s time by wiping them clean and loading one of the latest consumer-friendly Linux distributions. Mint is my current favorite, which I have running on several production machines alongside my Windows 7 boxes. Linux [...]]]></description>
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