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Cost effective technology for your organization - Part 1

eBusiness Team - Friday, September 11, 2009
Microsoft Office Communications Online delivers robust instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality that enables real-time person-to-person communication via text, voice and video, across an organization. Through presence awareness, staff can quickly detect a colleague's availability for a time-sensitive consult or business-critical decision—and then connect rapidly using a reliable, security-enhanced IM solution. 
 
The purpose of this article to highlight some of these features, in order to increase the adoption rate of this cost efficient alternative to long distance calling, quick-click video conferencing, and article threads that can be cut down to quick IM conversations.
 
OCS can be used as a standalone application, on your mobile device or on the web. It provides real-time collaboration capabilities within Microsoft Office programs.
 
All these applications are part of the technology suite available to your entire staff with Managed Company Business Suite
 
OCS Features
Click-to-call (voice) feature prerequisites:
OCS Voice How-to
This is a quick video on how to utilize the talk/video functions of OCS http://screencast.com/t/ZZBLXBY3W 
 
Resources
Access OCS on your browser (recommended for Mac users):
In addition to MS Office Communicator client installed locally on your machine, you can access OCS using Communicator Web Access specifying your email address and password to login.
 
Download Office Communicator on your Blackberry Device: http://www.managedcompany.com/products/ocs-mobile
 
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Marketing vs. Money & The Brain vs. The Brawn

eBusiness Team - Thursday, December 18, 2008
I was thinking today about the uphill battle that many small business owners face. They're fighting for business against larger, better funded competitors. How can you win?

In war, you can amass the biggest army and throw your soldiers at the enemy. The bigger the enemy is, the more soldiers you'll need - but hey, it works. Mostly.

In business, if you want to solve a problem, you can throw money at it. The bigger the problem, the more money you'll need to throw - but hey, it works. Mostly.

Big companies tend to throw money at problems, just like big guys are more likely to muscle their way through conflict. Little guys prefer to talk their way out of conflicts, like little companies attack their competitors with smart and efficient marketing.

When I say "marketing" I'm not talking about advertising and spending money on billboards. I'm talking about having a conversation with your customers; about making deals with like minded companies; about letting your customers spread the word for you; about making your product that much better than anyone elses; about making your service shine and delight.

History shows us that the biggest armies can fall to superior strategy and tactics; think Henry V and the battle of Agincourt. History also shows us that diplomacy and negotiation can achieve better outcomes than any war, and hence the saying that "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Well, I say Marketing is mightier than Money.

Right now, times are tough. And I've heard many business owners wish that they had more funding, or the resources of their larger competitors, so that they could weather the storm more comfortably.

That's fair. But the true winners out of this are going to be the smart, little companies who figure out that this a storm that they can talk themselves out of.

In this climate, smart marketing is a thousand times better than deep pockets.
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Silence the noise

eBusiness Team - Saturday, February 23, 2008

Not sure what project you should work on next? The All About Agile weblog's got a pragmatic method for setting priorities: by charting your projects on an importance/difficulty matrix, pictured above.
Once you've got all your things on the grid, think about the four quadrants. Things in the top left are "No-Brainers". These things are clear priorities. Things in the bottom right are potentially for the bin, as these things are of the least value.

How do you get your priorities straight? Let us know in the comments.

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