If I had a dollar for everyone who has asked me ‘how is business?’, I would be sailing the world on my 80’ yacht and ignoring the GFC!  However ...
 

Telstra is presently advertising on TV, radio and internet that ‘It’s never too late to call your mum’. The power of this message about verbal communication isn’t that obvious until you consider the alternatives. Can you imagine the copy saying ‘It’s never too late to email your mum’?  Somehow, it doesn’t have the same impact.

Looking at the criteria that constitutes the four data centre tiers specified in TIA 942, there’s one that sets me thinking: the proximity of the data centre to major capital city airports (not the secondary light-aircraft airports).  It’s ok for a tier 1 or 2 data centre, yet, for some reason, tier 3 and 4 data centres need to look elsewhere.

In business, many in-house communications are time sensitive. Sometimes, a message needs to be shared immediately but in a relatively short period of time it will expire. Examples of this include announcements, status updates, questions and polls.

Micro-blogging technology provides a better solution than overloading email systems and clogging users’ inboxes.

SOA stands for service-oriented architecture. The term encompasses many meanings, but the one that I like to use is that it is a systems development and integration methodology where systems group functionality around business processes and package these into interoperable services.

MS Word templates … do you use them?

When I say ‘template’, I don’t mean a single-paged document with a few headings that you have to try and craft a report from.  I mean a multi-paged fully-branded document based on a company-wide style sheet.  And I mean a structured document with standard headers, footers, sections, headings, and lots of instructions to explain what’s expected of the author.

So, why bother with templates like that?