May, 2008

How Connected Should We Be?

I'm writing this in a moving car on the way to my son's lacrosse game. It's about a 1-hour drive, and I've already communicated several items to my IT staff via e-mail, activated 3 new users on our Office Communications Server, and begun writing this post. Needless to say, my wife (and driver)...

Paperless Workflow

In addition to our current acquisition-related projects, and our implementation of Microsoft Unified Communications, we're also in the midst of another project which began late last year – implementing a paperless workflow system into the heart of our day-to-day operations. While paperless...

Growth and IT

How do you handle growth? This is a question that's really been troubling me over the past couple of weeks. For many of us, the day-to-day issues of running IT are pretty straight forward. We keep our existing "stuff" running, and occasionally we introduce some new "stuff". For years, that's...

Unified Communications Implementation – Update

We're making excellent progress on our Microsoft UC implementation. To date, we've rolled out Microsoft Office Communications Server and in our main office, and we've begun testing with the Communicator and LiveMeeting clients. In addition, we've nearly completed the migration to Exchange 2007 and...

Here We Grow Again

We're getting bigger again. Eric Mower and Associates has just combined with another agency here in Syracuse. We'll be adding 43 people to our current staff of 80 in this office, and they're moving into our offices around July 1^st. Good news for the agency – significant challenges...

Is That a Blog, a Wiki, or an E-Mail?

One of the things which continues to be a barrier to our adoption of Web 2.0 tools, particularly our SharePoint Blogs and Wiki's is confusion over where to post something. I really think this fear of being wrong is preventing some of our users from using these tools. I'd like to suggest that we...

Archiving Creative Materials

One of the more difficult challenges we face is that of archiving our creative materials. We're currently taking a fresh look at this process, reviewing both the process in terms of who is doing what, but also taking a fresh look at the storage media we're using.

Our current process...