Category Archives: Web/Tech

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The Mobility Hub – Will Kelly – Choose DaaS for BYOD

Living near Washington, DC, I get exposure to BYOD thinking from both the federal government and the commercial sector, making me more partial to flexible yet secure BYOD solutions. Lately, I’ve become partial to desktop-as-a-service.

DaaS works well for BYOD, telework programs, and even continuity of operations. It exists at the intersection of cloud hosting and mobile devices and provides a secure, remotely hosted Windows desktop for applications and data that is accessible from tablets, smartphones, notebooks, and even older PCs.

via The Mobility Hub – Will Kelly – Choose DaaS for BYOD.

 
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Rolling Out Social SharePoint To The Enterprise

In a new series of articles, I am going to explain a Social Computing Deployment Process. As the roll out of SharePoint My Sites and social computing tools progresses, a certain maturity needs to happen for the business and end user community to realize the benefits of social computing within the enterprise. This Social Computing Deployment Process includes the following phases:

  • Rollout Phase
  • Connection & Discovery Phase
  • Business User Productivity Phase
  • Product Innovation Phase

In this article, I will walk you through a potential rollout phase for moving an organization to a more social SharePoint.

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Cloud Telephony

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and research about telephony lately and came across and liking the developments I am finding on the mobile and cloud fronts. Cloud telephony is worth checking out if yourorganization that still depends on their old-school telephone Ma Bell telephone system in the the dusty old PBX closet  for conducting customer and other important business calls. Even if you’ve taken the extra step of putting VoiP system onsite, cloud telephony can help save you money and offer a lot of flexibility while improving your customer facing communications. Let’s look at some reasons why you need to pay attention to cloud telephony:

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Book Reviews Books Web/Tech

Book Review: Using Drupal (O’Reilly Press)

Using Drupal by Angela Byron, Addison Berry, and Bruno De Bondt is a comprehensive introduction to Drupal that can help get your first Drupal project off the ground.

Learning Drupal is a personal project of mine of mine this year, so reading this book was definitely part of my education. I compliment the authors on the friendly and warm writing style in the book. The book provides a solid introduction into the world of Drupal including starting with a history of content management on the web, and then delving into how Drupal works.

Some notable parts of this book (for me at least) are:

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Book Review: Take Control of BBEdit

I rank BBEdit as one of those applications that few mortals ever get to make really hum. It has many features under the hood that go underutilized or completely forgotten. Take Control of BBEdit  by Glenn Fleishman dives into this complex application.

Fleishman’s approach in the book is to take the reader through install, setup, and working with the various BBEdit features, working with documents, writing more efficiently with BBEdit’s tools, editing text, wrangling text (automating reusable text elements), search and replace, and then through working with web pages and sites. He does a great job of putting together how BBEdit users had to put together working with text, managing web sites, and managing projects to maximize BBEdit.

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5 Ways To Save On Endpoint Security

Endpoint security may seem like a daunting task if you are a Small to Medium Business (SMB) with the accompanying specters of expensive equipment and big dollar consultants made even worse in light of malware and the other online security issues facing organizations today. However, when you get down to it, endpoint security is more accessible today than ever before.

Here are five ways to save time and reduce your investment on endpoint security:

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Projects Web/Tech

Drupal Install Lessons Learned

I had been getting a little bit bored (and frustrated) with my professional technical writer site, willkelly.com over the past few years. The continued rocky period on my employer’s federal government contract and an endless cycle of halfhearted Dreamweaver templates got me on the road to migrate willkelly.com to the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). It has been a rather mixed experience.  I tore it all down the other weekend and started over, not as much out of disappointment, but to knock the kinks out of my first deployment.

Here are some lessons I learned:

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10 Reasons Why Klout Has No Clout With Me

Despite being a technology early adopter and writer, I’ve only kept a slow and steady clip with my social media presence. My social media presence is focused on LinkedIn and Twitter with a little Facebook and Google+ thrown in for good measure. Somehow along the way, Klout seemed to think I should have an account with them and just signed me up. Not cool. Here are the 10 reasons why Klout has no clout with me:

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Managing Offsite Technical Writing Projects With Do.com

I previously wrote about Do.com, gave it high marks, and then got to thinking about how it could work for managing offsite technical writing projects. I’ve had mixed experiences myself with offsite technical writing projects and while I still think some organizations are more equipped to deal with remote workers than others. However, I haven’t given up the hope that putting a management tool layer between the remote writer and those involved in the project at the mother ship couldn’t help improve communications and create an audit trail.

With a little bit of setup, Do.com can serve as a task management and communications broker between a remote writer and the rest of the project team.

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Job Hunting Web/Tech

3 Things People Forget About When Posting Resumes Online

Having your resume online is the nice bond paper of twenty years ago now that so many companies have an online first approach to recruiting employees. However, the state of network security in some organizations might be directly at odds with the tools job hunters use to post their resumes online.

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