I took the opportunity on Monday to get really organised for the next 2 months. There is so much to do before the end of the year! One of the items I came across was a link to some podcasts that Microsoft has uploaded from its “productivity series”. The first was on copy and paste, and I thought to myself; “there’s not much I don’t know about this”. I watched it, and was pleasantly surprised. I learned about some of the additional functionality, and how I could be doing things faster and better. You can find the link here.
Toby was very excited this morning about iCloud Control Panel for Windows. This provides the ability to sync your bookmarks and photos across multiple iOS devices (iPad and iPhone) along with your Windows based device.
As a business owner, I was pleased to get iMessage installed on all the teams’ iPhones and iPads, as this is an SMS-like message service that uses the data connection, rather than incurring $0.20 cent costs or use of the 100 or 500 txt plans. I think we will be on track for savings of hundreds of dollars a year, if not thousands as IT Partners grows!
When disposing of hardware our clients are reassured to know that it doesn’t go into landfill. We commit to responsible e-waste. More importantly, we manage risk, something often forgotten about. Before anything leaves IT Partners, we perform a secure wipe, using a process which writes random data over the entire disk multiple times. Sounds extreme? You can see why we care so much in this article, where identity fraud is being committed via un-sanitised hardware.
Good email etiquette is an art form we could all learn and do better. Email has the potential to waste so much time that we could all be using more productively, and yet when used well, it is an invaluable communication tool. Today I was forwarded this link, a new way to work with email and ten simple rules to follow to improve email communication.
The two rules that I am going to make better use of are using EOM (End of Message) and NNTR (no need to respond).