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BTA Launches BTA Dealer Marketing Workshop

New educational offering will focus on best practices in online marketing Kansas City, MO — The Business Technology Association (BTA; www.bta.org) has announced its newest educational offering, the BTA Dealer Marketing Workshop. The inaugural workshop will be held Nov. 6-7, 2014,
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A Deeper Look into Konica Minolta’s Partnership with 3D Systems

Anyone who attended last November’s Konica Minolta dealer meeting or read about it heard rumblings that the company was on the verge of partnering with 3D Systems to market 3D printers through the Konica Minolta Dealer channel. Those rumblings became a reality on June 5 when the
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The 25 Most Significant Events in the Office Imaging Industry of the Past 25 Years Part 4

One might think that as we close in on the final 10 most significant events in the office imaging industry of the past 25 years that the list would start thinning out with events that might not be all that significant. You’re free to think that, however, as someone who has been
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The 25 Most Significant Events in the Office Imaging Industry of the Past 25 Years Part 3

And the 25 Most Significant Events beat goes on as we present five more significant events from the past 25 years. If you’ve been following along, it’s interesting to see the connection, and not slight connections either, between many of the trends on this list. That whole analog
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News Bytes

Top of the Rio’ BTA Dealer Member Appreciation Reception to Take Place at ITEX 2014 National Conference and Expo  Jan. 23, 2014 – The Business Technology Association  along with sponsors ECi Software Solutions, Katun, OKI Data Americas, and Square 9 will host a reception
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Between the Lines: A Vanishing Legacy

As some of you know I’ve been writing about this industry for 27 years now. That’s a long time. Time sure does fly when you’re having fun even if you don’t realize you’ve been having fun. I started in 1986 writing for Office Systems (later to be called Office Solutions), a
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Channel Disruption: How Different Will the Channel Look in 2014?

I just returned from Photizo’s Transform Global 2013 in Scottsdale, AZ and like last year’s event, I had a jam-packed schedule with not enough time to attend all the sessions I wanted to sit in on or see all the people I wanted to see. But I did walk out of there with
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April News Bytes

Following are the big and small news stories for the month of April. ECi FMAudit Announces New Professional Services Offering  April 25, 2013 – ECi Software Solutions (www.ECiSolutions.com), a provider of industry specific information technology solutions, has announced
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BTA Summit Offers Strategies to Take Down the Patent Trolls

“They’re terrorists. They terrorize the end user.” That’s BTA General Counsel Bob Goldberg’s take on patent trolls at a BTA-sponsored industry summit on March 14 to address this escalating industry issue. These patent trolls are actually attorneys who are out to extort money from
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March News Bytes

Following are the big and small news stories for the month of March. etfile Brings Content Management to Reseller Channel March 26, 2013 –Taking distribution of its premier content and workflow management solutions one step further, etfile today launched a new sales engagement
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