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Posts Tagged ‘productivity’

Latest Research and 5 Tips for Managing Web 2.0 in the Workplace

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Clearswift (network security vendor and WebSpy technology partner) recently released their first report, in a series of three, on the use of social media and web 2.0 in the workplace.

From not wanting to touch social media with a ten foot pole, employers are these days increasingly aware of the benefits of social media and web 2.0 in the workplace. Clearswift used an independent market research firm and interviewed approximately 250 online office workers and 150 managers across the UK, US, Australia and Germany.

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Twitter Evolution Infographic and Amazing Usage Statistics

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

As it’s always been pretty difficult getting accurate figures on Twitter demographics and usage I was pretty chuffed to come across below statistics and facts.

If you are, or considering, blocking Twitter at your workplace please have a look through these amazing numbers and think again. Seems like Twitter is here to stay doesn’t it? The distinction between personal and professional Twitter usage is diminishing as it is being adopted by the masses as an every day tool to communicate with friends, provide networking opportunities, locate critical contacts, leads and receive timely industry news. Blocking access to Twitter, or other social media sites, means blocking an online revolution and depriving the needs of a professional workforce. This in turn can cause resentment, increase costly turnovers and reduce productivity by complicating or delaying accomplishment of tasks.

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Movie Quote Conversation – Some Leisure Browsing to Increase Productivity

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

An evening not too long ago, one of our developers had nothing better to do than compiling movie quotes from Jack Nicholson and Arnold Schwarzenegger into a very amusing conversation.

I wanted to share this clip with the rest of you to brighten up your day AND provide you with a short an unobtrusive break, enabling your mind to rest, leading to a higher total net concentration, and as a result, increased productivity.

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Security Threats Increase with Growth in Social Networking – Blocking still not the Answer

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

IT security firm Trend Micro recently released results from their latest study surveying 1,600 end-users in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. The study focused on employees’ use of corporate computers while on corporate LANs.

Trend Micro found that the use of social networking sites grew globally from 19% in 2008 to 24% in 2010.The fact that the use of social networks is growing, and will most likely continue to grow, probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but it is always interesting to attach real figures to this trend.

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Website Categorization – Assessing Productivity

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Security and Threat Management solutions, such as Microsoft Forefront TMG, IronPort and Blue Coat, use predefined URL categorization to simplify blocking and filtering management. Different security vendors have different ways of categorizing websites but it generally involves referring to a gigantic, regularly updated database of millions of websites sorted into 50-100 relevant categories.

Majority of security vendors will give you a high level overview of the categories, such as Sports, Shopping, Online Community, Streaming Media, Employment and Gambling, but rarely provides intuitive ways to further investigate the traffic going to the sites within these categories. The nifty thing about WebSpy’s solutions is that, as long as categories are logged, you can use WebSpy to analyze web browsing in relation to these categories and get a much clearer overview of your organization’s web usage.

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Annual Cost Calculator for Unproductive Internet Usage

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Ever so often new reports and findings on organizational cost of employees’ unproductive Internet usage are published. As a developer of Internet reporting software, that assists in reducing these costs, we naturally highlight the findings whenever we can. Simply to make companies aware that the cost of a WebSpy license is marginal in relation to the cost savings that can be achieved from using our software.
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8 Reasons NOT to Use Microsoft Forefront TMG’s Reporting

Monday, February 8th, 2010

I’ve been having a look through the reporting functionality included in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway to find that not much has changed from ISA Server 2006. There is some new information regarding the newly implemented URL categorization and threat management technology, but there is very little flexibility or customization for those with reporting requirements beyond general overviews cluttered with irrelevant information. (more…)