July, 2010

Google Wave, ideal fit for light weight project management?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 11:26

In essence project management  is all about making sure that different tasks are being done by different co-workers within time and budget. This sounds pretty simple, but every organization has problems delivering projects in a successful way. Barely one third of all projects are deemed to be a success.

Methodologies such as PMBOK and PRINCE2 are intended to keep projects under better control, but with a huge overhead in paper work and structured meeting moments. For today’s rapidly changing (business) world, a more ‘agile’ approach is often more appropriate.

Google Wave is being announced with the motto ‘Get stuff done with groups of people’. But does it?

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Summer time, reading up and experimenting.

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:26

Summer time is a great time to read up on things. I have started reading ‘User Adaption Strategies‘ by Michael Sampson. Great intro for the book: “What is is the #1 complaint about new collaboration technology? No one uses them!”.

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What Google doesn’t understand: disaster recovery doesn’t eliminate backups

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 15:47

During presentations Google people keep referring to their disaster recovery measures. They keep saying that backups are no longer needed. But is that so? Hello Google, never heard of the ‘dummy user’?

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How to add a Postini admin in Google Apps

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 12:59

Do you use Postini combined with Google Apps Premier Edition and are you dying to know how to have more then one sysadmin in Postini?
Easy, if you know how.

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Want to know why Postini quarantined an email?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:00

Also wondering why Postini, part of Google Apps, sometimes tags specific emails as spam?

Postini Message Security verifies every incoming email based on a number of rules. Some of them have been configured by your administrator. Some of them you can change. Some of them are part of the black box service that Postini is and are only known to them.

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Adding graphics to email signatures: Microsoft BPOS 1 – Google Apps 1

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 11:30

Almost all our clients migrating from Outlook to Google Apps ask us how to add graphics images –typically company logos– to their email signatures in Google Apps.
Earlier we already posted a blog post on our simple answer: you CANNOT!

But as is often the case with Google Apps, now the answer is: pretty SIMPLE.

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Backups or archiving email is not the same thing

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:53

Do you know the difference between doing email backups or archiving them? When disputes start, mail archives can avoid a lot of discussions. Most likely with mere backups you would end up empty handed.

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