Simplex-IT Announces Sponsorship of Long-Running Charity Event Cleveland GiveCamp

IT firm will present third annual Craze eCool memorial award to lucky non-profit organization 

July 17, 2018; Stow, Ohio; – Simplex-IT, a Managed Service Provider in IT support located in Stow, Ohio, has officially announced it will be a silver sponsor for this year's Cleveland GiveCamp on July 20 to July 22.

The long-running charity event based in Cleveland, Ohio provides technology professionals willing to donate their time to provide web solutions for non-profit organizations. The charity has provided hundreds of non-profit groups with millions of dollars-worth of IT specialists' time over the last eight years.

Groups donating time to Cleveland GiveCamp spend a weekend building websites and applications for non-profit groups. The services would normal cost non-profits thousands of dollars on their already stretched budgets. However, Cleveland GiveCamp gives organizations the chance to receive top-notch web developers and designers for no fee at all. It also enables IT companies to give back to the community using their expert knowledge and industry insight.

Simplex-IT has signed on as a silver sponsor for this year's Cleveland GiveCamp. The company is committed to charity work in the northeast Ohio area and Simplex-IT's silver sponsorship once again shows its dedication to helping others.

Along with sponsoring Cleveland GiveCamp, Simplex-IT will once again co-present the Craze eCool memorial award. The award was named after Andy Craze, who was a key figure in the GiveCamp project. Craze was also an IT developer who donated his time to non-profits. Following Craze's passing, the Simplex-IT team, Andy’s partner Jane Winik and Cleveland GiveCamp worked together to create the Craze eCool award. The award is presented to non-profit organizations participating in the weekend-long charity event.

In 2016, the award's first year, Empowering Youth Enabling Justice and Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates were presented with the award. Last year, the award was given to three organizations: Akron Blind Center, University Settlement, and Womankind Cleveland, OH. Each group was awarded $500 as a part of the Craze eCool award.

This year's event will kick off on July 20. Anyone interested learning about Cleveland GiveCamp can find out more at https://clevelandgivecamp.org/

Simplex-IT CEO Educates Political Leaders About Information Technology In DC Meeting

February 27, 2018. Stow, OH.

Information Technology has become a mainstay in the country, and political leaders showed good levels of interest by turning up to get some education at the annual “DC Fly-in” event sponsored by CompTIA.

Since inception, the CompTIA event has proven to be impactful year after year as testimonials from attendees suggest. There was a lengthy list of attendees at the event, including Simplex-IT CEO, Bob Coppedge, who featured as an Ohio representative alongside Carlton Ramsey (Past president of the Akron Chapter AITP).

Bob had an eventful day educating political leaders about Information Technology on the DC Fly-in event themed, "CHANCE in Tech Act of 2018". Topics discussed spanned across skilled workforce, nationwide broadband access and the future of Blockchains.

Simplex-IT CEO, Bob, gave what many called a powerful lecture about the needs of both the Tech industry (organizations that create, support and/or maintain IT products and services) and Tech Occupation (people with IT jobs but in non-IT organizations). In his insightful speech, Bob talked up the chances of bridging the skills gap that plagues young people who are out there trying to get a job.

The failings of internship programs and paid education were pointed out by Bob. The Simplex-IT CEO expressed his dissatisfaction about interns who are made to spend most of their time doing unnecessary meager tasks at their supposed places of experience. The necessity of paid education was also questioned by the passionate guy.

The event, “Chance in Tech Act in 2018”, had a major agenda of bringing back the previously effective concept where apprentices gain experiences in a company where they will go on to serve as full-time employees. It is a concept Bob calls, “a win-win relationship”.

New Book Simplifies Information Technology for Non-Technical CEO’s

STOW, OH (February 7, 2018) – CEO’s looking to improve their understanding of the Information Technology (IT) without becoming a geek now have a dynamic resource to help them following the launch of the new book, A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology.

Billed as a crotchety old geek’s road map to Information Technology, A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology, offers an insider’s perspective to the technology world and valuable information to help the non-technical CEO make better decisions. The book covers key concepts behind the impact that IT has on a business such as:

• Things to know about cyber security concerns

• Importance of training end users for cyber security

• Kinds of IT support to have for a company

• Knowing when IT is obsolete in a company

• Knowing if backups for a company is effective and up to date

• And more

 A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology was written by Bob Coppedge- the owner and CEO of Simplex-IT - a local and nationally award-winning Managed Service Provider in northeast Ohio. Coppedge has worn just about every hat in the IT business -from developer, data base analyst, consultant and IT Director to Chief Information Officer.

Questioned about the motivation for writing the book, he explained: “I wrote A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology out of the frustration I’d experience when talking about the challenges and problems that business owners have with their IT We IT folks have a reputation of being condescendingly arrogant, overbearing, and aloof with understanding the full atmosphere of the business.

Often times, CEOs don’t feel that they need or want to take the time to understand. These are conversations I’ve had over and over with CEOs, and I couldn’t find anything written from the perspective of the CEO trying to manage their IT problems, except to teach the CEO about IT.”

A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology is Coppedge’s debut book. But the manual is written in plain, simple language and understandable terms that the average CEO will quickly grasp. The author quickly reels in readers from the onset with wit and humor – making it the book not just informative, but also an entertaining read. Brimming with strategies and advice, CEO’s will find themselves returning to this survival guide time and again.

Initial sales and ranking of A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology indicate that there is a genuine need for this kind of resource. The book hit # 1 in Information Management and Business and Money categories within days of being launched.

One reader wrote: “I have read this great book twice! Such a clear, understandable need to know guide. Not just great for CEO's but anyone that doesn't speak "Geek" as a primary language!

A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology is available in paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon for a retail price of $14.36 and $9.93, respectively. A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to Blast Glioblastoma, a non-profit organization seeking to raise money for brain tumor research.  For further details visit: http://www.simplex-it.com/bobsbook and http://a.co/0WYSiK1. 

Media Contact:  Patti Smerk

Email: bobsbook@Simplex-IT.com