Renaissance 2.0
Don’t look now but social media and social networking tools have begun its assault on the enterprise! They have successfully penetrated company firewalls and have started to infiltrate corporate email systems without anyone noticing yet! How have they accomplished this impressive task despite all of the security measures that anti-social media administrators have set in…
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In all my years working in I.T. the thing that has always made me cringe is the way that people handle their login account information and passwords. I cannot tell you how often I’ve seen login names and passwords attached to monitors on sticky notes or taped to their desk or keyboard. The more security conscious ones…
LinkedIN is a fantastic networking service for business contacts, but wouldn’t it be even more useful if you could build your own version of this service within your own enterprise? Obviously, you would start with the relationships internally among all employees and then have links to their external contacts outside your firewall to other companies,…
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I recently spent a great deal of time with our company’s account representatives for our mobile phone cariers, AT&T and T-Mobile. I learned some eye-opening, jaw-dropping yet simple tricks that will reduce our company’s monthly mobile phone bill by hundreds of dollars. The changes to make are simple little things that truly add up to…
A friend of mine said to me, “Sorry you have to work late tonight. I have no idea what a core switch is.” It made me chuckle and remember that most people don’t know the terms or jargons we geeks in I.T. use on a daily basis. Even technically savvy users like my friend don’t…
Believer it or not, you can actually build a social network for your enterprise for free. Thanks to Microsoft’s free Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and free SQL Server 2005 Express database, you can design and deploy an entirely new collaborative intranet or social network for your company that features many of the hottest web 2.0…
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Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is a free (for now) search solution for the enterprise. It’s easy to install and can be up and running within minutes. It looks and feels like search engines we use every day. Includes subscription service that sends update notifications of your search results via e-mail and RSS alerts. Watch this…
Something strange happened today. Earlier in the day, I had posted a comment on Chris Brogan’s blog in response to his excellent piece “Challenges of Social Media Types in the Workplace“. I shared how torn I was as a Systems Administrator because I had to block access to many popular social networking sites that I…