The Closed Beta Project

This week I am joined by Shelby Vecchio, the XR designer at the Futurus and art director at Amebous Labs, a XR start-up here at Atlanta, GA.

During our last episode, Curt Godwin talked about the impact of XR in the classroom but the lack of content for it to be a viable solution at the moment. So I reached out to Shelby to pick her brain as she and Futurus are content creators in the world of XR. 

We talk about 

• AR/VR
• Futurus' antibullying campaign for middle schools
• Creating content for classrooms

Hope you enjoy this episode!

P.S. Couple of disclaimers, Shelby mentions Hololens is rather affordable, but she wanted me to point out that it is still a bit expensive ($3500), but Microsoft also offers a subscription plan for $125/month. 

Also, she wanted to mention that Facebook acquired Oculus few years ago so they're requiring Facebook login "to be more facebook-obvious". 

Hey everyone,

This week's episode is with Tim Fleming, Director of technology services, and Curt Godwin who is the network operations coordinator at Forsyth County Schools.

Forsyth County Schools, which are located in GA, are comprised of 40 schools and close to 51,000 students. Forsyth County Schools have long been a technology leader in K12 space. And their small IT teams, with the help of Lockstep, provide some of the best learning experiences for their students and teachers. 


Curt and Tim discuss:

• how they prepared their schools for virtual teaching and learning during the pandemic with such a small IT team.l 
• How they utilize IT analytics and human analytics to ensure a high graduation rate.
• How and why they utilize NIST as the core of their cybersecurity
• How they created a culture to enable their students and teams for unforeseen.
• And more!

Enjoy!

Hi everyone, Today's guest is Kim Friends, VP of E-Rate compliance at CSM consulting. 

She joins me to discuss: 

• How has pandemic changes the focus for K-12 schools and libraries
• E-Rate changes and the new legislation in front of congress
• MIBS
• And how schools can take advantage of these new changes for E-Rate.

www.lockstepgroup.com 

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or topic suggestions for us to cover. My email is [email protected]

Hi everyone, this week's podcast is a 20-min webinar/Q&A on IT analytics and how to use data to not just visualize your technology but to improve your end-user experience.

The discussion is led by RJ Fowler, our senior systems engineer at Lockstep Technology Group.

In this Q&A we discuss:

• How do you determine if you can ingest data from a system? 
• How large is the data footprint?
• How much bandwidth is used?
• How can I use analytics for my remote employees?
• And more!

www.lockstepgroup.com 

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or topic suggestions for us to cover. My email is [email protected]

Hi everyone, my guest today is Ken Dreon, Chief Delivery Officer at Lockstep Technology Group.

He joins me to discuss: 

• What is a DNS
• Windows DNS vulnerability
• Importance of patching
• And what to consider before patching your machines. 

www.lockstepgroup.com 

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or topic suggestions for us to cover. My email is [email protected]

Hi everyone, my guests today are two of our talented system engineers at Lockstep Technology Group: Chris Muse at our network operations center, and Kalin Wilson at our professional services.

They join me to discuss: 

• Their tips and tricks for staying focused and productive while working from home
• Their thoughts on how technology will evolve after and because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• What tech-savvy people can do help during the pandemic.

Reach out to me if you have any questions or topic suggestions for us to cover. My email is [email protected]

I've always had this question about our IT infrastructure: what steps did we take to make sure that we can be able to work securely from virtually anywhere? 

Well, in today's episode, Scott Anctil answers that question for us. Scott is our CTO at the Lockstep Technology Group. 

• Enabling and optimizing remote workforce remotely
• Importance of hybrid cloud infrastructure
• best ways to communicate with your IT department
• How to build ideal disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• and more!

Hope you're staying safe and healthy!

visit us at https://lockstepgroup.com/

Hi everyone, my guest today is Jonathan Kyle, our security practice manager. He joins me to discuss what to look out for especially now when almost everyone is working from home. 

Jonathan and I discuss:

• Zoom bombing
• Phishing tactics during COVID-19 pandemic
• Marriott data breach

Reach out to me if you have any questions or topic suggestions for us to cover. My email is [email protected]

We sat down with Kim Friends, VP of E-Rate of compliance at CSM consulting, to talk about the 2020 E-rate rules, MIBS and what schools should know going in 2020-2021.

To learn more visit us at Lockstepgroup.com & CSM consulting

Thanks for listening! 

Part 2 - This episode was recorded at Smith & Howard CPA  We are joined by Martha Raber, enterprise risk services manager at Smith & Howard, Jeff Brown, senior business advisor at Smith & Howard, Jonathan Kyle, security practice manager at Lockstep Technology Group

Martha, Jeff, and Jonathan cover all things compliance, state laws, and the responsibilities businesses have towards their customer and employee security.

To learn more about cybersecurity and managed solutions visit us at https://lockstepgroup.com

To learn more about Smith & Howard CPA, visit their website at https://www.smith-howard.com/