| January 2008 In this issue
√ Remote
Monitoring |
How to Unleash the Power of E-mail
Signatures
By Joanna L. Krotz
Reprinted with permission from
Microsoft Small Business Center
Every time you send an e-mail message, you have an opportunity to share something personal or powerful or playful in an "e-mail signature." Yet few people realize its potential.
E-mail signatures are the wise or funny sayings and quotations, artwork or animated gifs that appear at the bottom of messages, following your name. You don't need to type in words or attach signature files for each outgoing message, of course. You automate the process with a few simple selections in your e-mail program .(See below for how to include signatures in Microsoft Outlook.)
Why make the effort? Frankly, it's fun. Personal signatures add spice and individuality to the cold salad of e-mail.
And business signatures can boost profits, too. Consider a signature of your company's marketing tag line or a special sales offer or a direct link to the company Web site or to a registration page so customers can sign up to get news or offers. These are all extremely cost-effective ways to build business. Even sending signatures of quotations or sayings in business e-mail is a way to make you stand out amid the clutter.
The bottom line on this bottom line: You'll be noticed, remembered and appreciated — if, that is, you go about adding signatures in the right way.
Electronic
expressions
Signatures are a snap to swap, either daily or every few days,
depending on how often you send e-mail to the same recipients.
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Enjoy the
Benefits of Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind -- Enjoy the Benefits of Remote Network Monitoring Without The IT Burden
Today’s remote network monitoring applications — such as Cisco Works, HP OpenView, Ipswitch and Netarx — can help us generate valuable information about your network health and performance. This data, pulled from firewall and VPN logs, helps our network administrators quickly determine which of your network components are overburdened, underutilized or at risk. And by hiring out this service, you can gain all the information you need to make critical decisions, without placing an additional burden on your busy IT personnel. If you are an SMB with numerous PCs, servers and a Web site — but a small IT staff — remote network monitoring may prove to be an ideal solution. |
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Office Hours: How Bill Gates Uses
Office Written by William (Bill) H. Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation. Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Office.
I spend the majority of my time communicating with colleagues, customers, and partners. As a result, Outlook is the application that I use the most. I receive about 100 e-mail messages per day from Microsoft employees, and many more from customers and partners. It's very important that I hear what people think about our products and our company. Yet I need to balance that against the very real risk of information overload from all the e-mail that I receive. The advances we made in Outlook 2007 for filtering, rules, and search folders have made it much easier to manage my e-mail than before, especially because so much happens automatically once I've set everything up. A great thing is that all my voice mail, faxes, and even instant messages are sent to my Outlook Inbox using our unified communications technology. Another important feature of unified communications that we have integrated into Office applications is presence and identity. That means I can always tell at a glance whether the person I need to get in touch with is available or not. One change to Outlook that I appreciate is tasks are now integrated with how I view my calendar. Before the 2007 Office release, I never used the Outlook task feature, but now that tasks are automatically added to my calendar, it makes it much easier to stay on top of the important things I need to do. |
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If
you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have
three large flat screen displays that sit together and are synchronized
so they work like a single very wide display. The large display area
enables me to work very efficiently. I keep my Outlook 2007 Inbox open
on the screen to the left so I can see new messages as they come in. I
usually have the message or document that I'm currently reading or
writing in the center screen. The screen on the right is where I have
room to open up a browser or look at a document that someone has sent me
in e-mail.
Microsoft
Windows Vista and the 2007
Office system
— better together
The first time you see the 2007 Microsoft Office release running on the Windows Vista operating system with the Windows Aero user experience, you'll notice a difference. And what you see on the surface is just the beginning. Microsoft conducted extensive research to find ways to make it quicker, easier, safer, and more fun to get your work done.
From more search options and enhanced file browsing to great visual cues for finding what you need, you'll find a lot of changes — for the better — in how you work every day.
Watch this demo to see how the 2007 Office system and Windows Vista perform together to improve your work experience.
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