Windstream OfficeSuite UC® hits major milestone

The tech tools that immediately come to mind are for business phone and internet services. You’ll be answering inquiries or concerns from customers and customer leads — whether by phone, chat service or social media — after all. And you may want to include free wi-fi for customers who visit your office or store — through a second connection — to give them the best experience.

But keeping morale high can be a challenge in her industry, in which publicists face constant deadlines and frequent rejection when pitching the media. As president of the 23-employee firm, Cookerly prioritizes motivation by breaking the daily grind with activities that range from trips to her horse farm to spirited office bingo games. “You can’t have the same schedule day in and day out without having burnout and office morale go down,” she says. “Repetition is the carpal tunnel of the mind.”

The Boys and Girls Club of LeFlore County in southeast Oklahoma is a fantastic example of getting a whole lot more out of a little investment in technology and rural broadband Internet. It recently replaced and expanded its computer assets — the Think Tank, they call their computer room. Now, with a powerful Kinetic Business Internet connection, the club’s commitment to childhood education as an extension of its community-based mission is reaffirmed.