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Dahle 10560 – A popular paper folder for 2012
Back by popular demand, the Dahle 10560 paper folder is off to a great start in 2012 by helping offices, churches, insurance offices and many others with their paper folding needs. This folder will save you time, money and headaches. The 10560 comes with these great features below: Folds up to 4,000 sheets of 20 lb bond paper per [...]
Smartboards Come into the Locker Room
Welcome back to the Mono Blog. Over the past few months we've covered several stories about the spread of interactive whiteboard use to classrooms across the nation. As teachers learn how to create value with the technology more school boards and PTAs have embraced it. Despite hearing stories about the new ways classrooms have been using [...]
Why It’s Important to Oil Your Shredder
Here at Mono we don't just know shredders, we eat, sleep and breathe them. One of things we've found is that most of our customers that are new to shredding, or maybe had bad luck with a previous shredder, aren't familiar with the maintenance required to keep them running in top shape. This maintenance is both critical, and quite simple. [...]
Finding Facts about FACTA
Yesterday on the Mono blog we started a two part series on HIPAA and FACTA regulations regarding proper disposal of secure documents and data. Today we'll be going over the destruction requirements of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, or FACTA. Passed by the United States Congress on November 22nd, 2003, FACTA contains seven [...]
Vintage Print Shop Machines Put Back in Service
Hearing the word vintage brings up images of trendy "retro" items being sold at small, often overpriced boutiques in the hippest parts of town. From clothing and jewelry, to records and even now cassette tapes, this trend for appreciating the leftover remnants of simpler times has been growing for years. What is generally not imagined, [...]
SMART Boards: Even More Benefits to Students
Lately we've covered several news stories about the growing use of SMART, or interactive, whiteboards in classrooms for all ages. While at first slow to catch on, a new generation of technology-embracing teachers are moving this technology to the forefront of education. Special needs students, specifically, seem to gain the most from them. In a [...]
Hot New Tech… And it’s Made out of Paper!
You may not be familiar with exactly what an accelerometer is, but you are definitely aware of some of the technologies they are used in. They are used to measure the proper acceleration of a given item, or how fast it speeds up or slows down. It was the advent of microscale accelerometers in the 1990s that brought about widespread use of airbags [...]
Shredding On The Go
It's no secret to most people that unneeded sensitive documents must be shredded. We shred mail with personal information, tax and legal documents, and anything else that absolutely cannot fall into the wrong hands. But what about receipts and info about prescriptions, anything that you might get when you're on the go and usually toss out without [...]
Bulletin Boards and Unions
As the crisis with the unions heated up in Wisconsin, many of us took a close look at the arguments and contentions of each side, regardless of where you fall on the issue or your personal politics. In reading over some of the union rules and regulations in question, I came across several that had never crossed my mind when pondering exactly what [...]
Spring Cleaning Tips for your Home Office
Spring cleaning is a great time for investigating your Identity Security, especially for those of us that work from a home office. Often times sensitive documents build up throughout the year, to be revisited only during this annual ritual of reorganization and renewal. With identity theft up 12% this past year what will you do with documents that [...]
