Being able to share information quickly and accurately is always a priority in business. By being agile, a business owner is able to stay ahead of the competition and run his or her business effectively. That is exactly what Google Calendar allows you to do as a small business. From being able to monitor employee activity to sharing calendars and appointments among your team, Google Calendar will fill a much-needed role in your workplace
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Time scheduling and appointment setting within the calendar is a breeze. Your employees can easily create their own appointments, time off or other activities within the calendar. The interface is straightforward and easy to use and usually requires no training at all. Once an appointment has been entered, the team can share their calendars or individual appointments among themselves.
At a glance you can quickly see the meta data for your company and decide what time is best to schedule team meeting and other important company activity. If your company uses an appointment setter or other individual, they can use the calendar to book appointments easily without double booking.
In addition to just seeing entire blocks of time marked off during a calendar period, Google Calendar also allows your team to view a breakdown of their entire day. This functionality allows the calendar to become a powerful time management tool. Employees can quickly enter in activities they need to accomplish for a given time period and see where their time will be spent.
It is not uncommon for an employee to need to access their calendar while at their desk. Whether they are traveling, with a client or at another of your locations, Google Calendar keeps them connected at all times. The calendar is truly cross-platform being able to be used on any system that can connect to the internet, meaning Macintosh, Windows, Linux, mobile or otherwise. Your employees can even check their schedules from home if they need to get prepared for the upcoming workday.
Finally, web presence is a must for companies of nearly any size these days. With Google Calendar, you are very easily able to integrate one or several of your calendars into your site. Choose from displaying individual calendars or an all-inclusive calendar and export it via HTML or XML . Sharing a Google Calendar in your business is a one stop solution for easy time management.

Preventative IT support is a growing field that offers companies ways to safeguard technology, processes, and employees from attacks on a firm’s information infrastructure.
The reason that preventative IT support is preferred is based on the fact that the cost of preparation upstream is much less than having a problem occur later.
Over the past decade, large firms have gone from focusing solely on adding services to protect technology to a combined approach that helps develop practices in all three areas.
The need is apparent. It was only a few years ago that a government agency in the UK noticed a USB stick in the parking lot of one of their high security buildings managed by a defense contractor. The USB stick contained a lot of what would be considered top-secret information. The contractor was not fired, but they certainly gained new religious beliefs that included moving all of their client’s servers into remotely-controlled facilities that humans were not allowed in.
Airgapping, which is removing people or networks from direct contact with a computing device, is therefore one way to remove a potential threat.
Other techniques that are typically used by preventative IT support specialists are to audit processes and implement ITIL, which is a set of IT processes that were developed in Europe to help ensure stronger process decision-making with regard to security and ethics.
When it comes to people, one of the largest threats to security is social engineering.
Everyone knows the story of the London hospital nurse who committed suicide after mistakenly passing on a phone call from some radio disc jockeys who wanted to get personal medical information about Prince William’s wife during her stay there. Both the nurse and the hospital were victims of social engineering.
Preventative IT support specialists can train your staff regarding social engineering attempts and help them to setup processes that will help blunt social engineering attempts. Their efforts can shore up your staff’s behaviors as they transact business.
One method of stopping social engineering is to raise awareness within your firm by training and then auditing the staff. For example, employees should know the e-mail policies so they are not tricked by phishing or virus attacks. Clicking on an e-mail from an unknown sender that appears suspicious or has an attachment that got through the firewall seems like it would not often occur. On the other hand, without training, it has been shown that the percentage of employees in firms that do click on such messages is higher than it would be had they been trained. The same is true for employees that use the phone. Training and auditing has been confirmed to decrease the number of employees in organizations that will hand out their password if a fictitious IT person calls them and uses social engineering to solicit it.
Another way to combat it is to educate executives about the whole range of social engineering exploits in order to drive individual company change from the top down. One Irish company is noted for doing this by arranging data breach forums for executives and by executives at Irish consulates overseas.

5 July

Digiweb outage

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Lots of calls today from new customers looking to move from Digiweb massive complaints from many users slow websites, emails being slow to send and receive and just a very generic email from Digiweb.
We have been customer of Digiwebs for last 5 years with not a day of bother very quick response but not much help over past 2 months of issues. We have been quite lucky having almost none of our present customers using email on digiweb, another reason to move to Google Apps.
Digiweb you might try communicate your outage a bit more to your customers
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