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How Not to Communicate -- Sam Goodner, CEO of Catapult Systems , posted this entertaining and short video highlighting the "old" ways of communicating in business. Enjoy.
What is UC -- not to be confused with unified messaging, which provides useful features like email transcripts of voice mail messages; unified communications (UC) integrates all your forms of business communication - phone, video, e-mail, voicemail, fax, instant messaging, web conferencing, presence, and desktop sharing -- into a single user experience. As I'm learning about the real power of this technology it reminds me of the same excitement I felt when I first witnessed the ability to seamlessly move data across various software programs - only now you can transfer messages or activities between people seamlessly.
Five Lessons About UC -- Goodner has written a concise blog about the power of UC , providing several concrete examples and five key lessons. Technology that is affordable and streamlines communication is critical to businesses that want to outmaneuver the competition and respond quickly to customers. Thanks Sam for keeping us informed on the leading edge tools that power our businesses.
Free Blackberry (and soon iPhone) App -- Rather than keeping track of loose receipts every time you go out for dinner, park your car or get a taxi, use your Blackberry, take a picture of the receipt... and that's it. The receipt is automatically uploaded to your secure justthebill.com account. You can toss the paper receipt in the garbage. Your accountant can now review the receipt and export it directly to any accounting software, saving thousands in dollars from otherwise lost receipts.
Rembrandts in the Attic -- Mike Jagger, CEO of Provident Security, repurposed his alarm response software for security guards to provide this super simple way for entrepreneurs (or anyone) to track their expenses -- and he would love for you to test it out. The idea came from a talk he attended at MIT given by Andrew Sherman, Intellectual Property lawyer called "Rembrandts in the Attic" - where Sherman encourages entrepreneurs to look for hidden assets in your company.
Solving His Own Problems -- "In my case," notes Jagger, "it wasn't so much a hidden asset as one that was in plain sight and just needed a little re-purposing. It dawned on me that our alarm response system could also solve another big problem that I have... submitting receipts. We quickly re-built a working version for Provident and started using it as our own expense tracking system for all of our employees."
Used Twitter Exclusively to Promote -- proving the power of Twitter, Jagger has more than 400 users after just 45 days sending out messages. "We're really interested in hearing from entrepreneurs in other countries (Jagger is in Canada) to learn about any specific details that would make their lives easier that we could incorporate into the service." justthebill.com .
HEADLINES: (technologies)
How Not to Communicate -- Sam Goodner, CEO of Catapult Systems , posted this entertaining and short video highlighting the "old" ways of communicating in business. Enjoy.
What is UC -- not to be confused with unified messaging, which provides useful features like email transcripts of voice mail messages; unified communications (UC) integrates all your forms of business communication - phone, video, e-mail, voicemail, fax, instant messaging, web conferencing, presence, and desktop sharing -- into a single user experience. As I'm learning about the real power of this technology it reminds me of the same excitement I felt when I first witnessed the ability to seamlessly move data across various software programs - only now you can transfer messages or activities between people seamlessly.
Five Lessons About UC -- Goodner has written a concise blog about the power of UC , providing several concrete examples and five key lessons. Technology that is affordable and streamlines communication is critical to businesses that want to outmaneuver the competition and respond quickly to customers. Thanks Sam for keeping us informed on the leading edge tools that power our businesses.
Free Blackberry (and soon iPhone) App -- Rather than keeping track of loose receipts every time you go out for dinner, park your car or get a taxi, use your Blackberry, take a picture of the receipt... and that's it. The receipt is automatically uploaded to your secure justthebill.com account. You can toss the paper receipt in the garbage. Your accountant can now review the receipt and export it directly to any accounting software, saving thousands in dollars from otherwise lost receipts.
Rembrandts in the Attic -- Mike Jagger, CEO of Provident Security, repurposed his alarm response software for security guards to provide this super simple way for entrepreneurs (or anyone) to track their expenses -- and he would love for you to test it out. The idea came from a talk he attended at MIT given by Andrew Sherman, Intellectual Property lawyer called "Rembrandts in the Attic" - where Sherman encourages entrepreneurs to look for hidden assets in your company.
Solving His Own Problems -- "In my case," notes Jagger, "it wasn't so much a hidden asset as one that was in plain sight and just needed a little re-purposing. It dawned on me that our alarm response system could also solve another big problem that I have... submitting receipts. We quickly re-built a working version for Provident and started using it as our own expense tracking system for all of our employees."
Used Twitter Exclusively to Promote -- proving the power of Twitter, Jagger has more than 400 users after just 45 days sending out messages. "We're really interested in hearing from entrepreneurs in other countries (Jagger is in Canada) to learn about any specific details that would make their lives easier that we could incorporate into the service." justthebill.com .