Archive for January, 2009
IM Client Selection
So, you’ve seen the light. You understand that your staff can be incredibly more productive if they have access to an IM Client. After all, instant messaging can allow for the fast exchange of documents, ideas, and answers. But where do you start? Should you use any old IM client?
Best IM Client
About.com – a New York Times company, not relevant to the post but something I find interesting – has opened up the nominations for best Instant Messenger client. If you believe, as we do, that Brosix deserves to be nominated please follow the link and fill out the form: About.com Best IM Client Contest! I [...]
Business and Pleasure: The Case for Separate IM’s
Keeping business and pleasure separate has become something of a lost art for the modern worker in this constantly on the go digital age. It used to be that when you left the office that was it. The workday was over, you could get a dry martini and relax, but with the onslaught of technology [...]
Brosix Public v. Corporate Brosix
There are many parts to the Brosix website that many of you may not know about. Brosix is broken into 2 parts- there is a Brosix public, which provides the instant messenger program to anyone free of charge (http://www.brosix.org) and the Brosix Secure Corporate IM for private companies (http://www.brosix.com). Both of these choices provide the [...]
Instant Messaging versus Email
I am a “power email-er”. I love to jot down quick notes to my friends and shoot them an email, send links to articles I find worth reading, and sometimes write out a long message updating them on life and hoping for an in depth message in return. For work I find email to be [...]
The Three Best Things about Office Instant Messaging
What is it about office instant messaging that has made this so popular over the past few years? If you don’t use an IM application within your office one thing is for sure: you are behind the times. That being said, it doesn’t take much to get started. In fact, any office, big or small, [...]
Populating Your Contacts List: A Guide For Independant and Telecommuting Professionals
When you work for someone else they have an IT department to decide who should and should not be able to put on your contact list. When you have the luxury of working at home often have to do without that guidance. So today we are going to take a look at who you should, [...]
Brosix Vs…
If you have been reading this blog regularly then no doubt you know about all of the advantages that you can have by switching over to the Brosix IM, but have we really given you any reasons to give up your old messenger. Sure, the idea of Brosix is interesting but if you are going [...]
Zero.
One of the hurdles that companies – especially smaller companies – must cross when it comes to enterprise email (and instant messanger, etc) servers is the work, complexity, and time that must be invested in setting one up. Of course, over time, this has become an easier task out of neccessity and out of improvements [...]
Instant Messaging Etiquette for the Office
Do you use instant messaging to communicate with co-workers? This is a great way to save time and to stay on the same page with everybody on your team. That being said, you need to realize that you can get yourself into trouble using an instant messaging program if you are not aware of proper [...]
