June 2011
In this issue
►Letter from the President
►Ricky's Corner
►Remote Workforce
►Embracing Social Networking
►Skills for a Successful Life
►How Well Do You Know Your Network?
►Business Continuity Tip
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How Well Do You
Know Your Network?
by Blake Britton, VP of Axxys Technologies
New client engagements are an exciting venture as they pose new challenges that our team is always ready to take on. Over the many years we have been serving the business community there continues to be a common theme among companies that view IT as nothing more than a necessary toolset for accomplishing various business tasks, a lack of technology records and maintenance. Here are a few of the first items we look at when assessing the use of IT within any business: documentation, data/server room, and age of computers.
Documentation
Do you have access to a basic network diagram of your infrastructure?
Do you a diagram of all the equipment and their role in the server room/data closet?
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Business Continuity Tip
Safety is Key
A disaster can strike at any time. You and your coworkers should know what to grab and where to go if an emergency happens.
Does your company have an emergency plan in place? Ask around, and if no plan is in place, help create one.
Employee safety should be THE top priority when disaster strikes. When an emergency happens it is important for employees to react quickly and with purpose. Knowledge and practice are paramount.
Click herefor employee safety tips from Ready.gov.
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Laugh a Little
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Choose to focus on not what has happened but what we can do.
- Ellen Pompeo
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Letter from the President
Tim Rettig
Is Your Business Continuity Desirable?
Recently, while lying in bed with my wife late at night I discovered something of hers that I desired for the first time in our nearly 16 years of marriage. It was her Business Continuity Team, or BCT.
You see, she was on a conference call with her team because the power had been out at her office for the past 3 hours, and it was looking like it wasn’t going to be restored until later the next day. The team was reviewing contingency plans and assigning responsibilities and determining at what time they would need to start notifying the 2,000 employees to either work at home or report to an alternate location.
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Ricky's Corner
Ricky Phipps
Managers of INTRUST GROUP:
Gabi Meszaros – Service Manager
Let’s get it straight up front. It’s pronounced, “Gubby”.
Gabi is dialed into people as individuals as good as anyone I know. Occasionally, he demonstrates this with uncanny imitations. He brought me to tears with an imitation of George McFly from Back to the Future, "Hey you! Get your damn hands off her!" I am certain that he gets the staff laughing with an imitation of me when I am out of the office.
It’s hard to know where to begin with Gabi. It’s easy to say that he has a lot to offer our company and our customers, and he brings it all full-force, every day. I recently asked one of the other managers, “Who would you say is our company MVP?” Out of 45 people, he only needed a couple seconds of consideration to reply, “Gabi. Hands down.”
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Is a Remote Workforce the Right Solution for Your Business?
used with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Site
Ask yourself the following questions to evaluate whether a remote workforce suits your business.
1. Are you in a client-service business?
2. Do your employees spend more than 50 percent of their time at client locations?
3. Do most of your employees have laptop computers?
4. Do you have employees who travel frequently as part of their jobs?
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What You Need to Know Before Embracing Social Networking
used with permission from Symantec
Summary: Begin with a formal and well-understood policy for employees’ use of public sites like Facebook and Twitter. Then follow the five recommendations in this article for balancing the risks and opportunities presented by social networking.
When Adam Savage, the tech-savvy host of the popular TV show “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his Toyota Land Cruiser, he was sharing a lot more information than he realized. As The New York Times reported last August: “Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of data providing the longitude and latitude of where the photo was taken. Hence, he revealed exactly where he lived. And since the accompanying text was “Now it’s off to work,” potential thieves knew he would not be at home.”
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5 Skills for a Successful Life
by Marlene Chism
 From my experience as a speaker and consultant, it seems that striving for success creates much unnecessary drama. The image that comes to mind for me is rowing with all of your might to get to an island that never appears. When do I get there? How do I get there faster? What if someone else gets there first? If there is drama in the boat, getting to the island isn’t going to be much better.
With that in mind, here are five skills that will make your success journey one worth savoring.
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