Comments for GoBeyond IT http://www.gobeyondit.com Worry-Free IT Solutions Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:04:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on How to Make the Most of a “Snow Day” by Chris Stone http://www.gobeyondit.com/blog/is-your-business-ready-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Chris Stone Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:04:54 +0000 http://www.gobeyondit.com/?p=687#comment-9 Snow has never had significant impact on our operations until the last few weeks. We viewed it in the same fashion that Ethan did, as a vacation day. With the recent weather though, we haven't been running at full staff for 4 working days now. A good portion of our interoffice collaboration takes place over the Internet. It's easy to shoot off a quick IM to a coworker to check something out instead of walking over to their desk. All of this grinds to a halt with everyone at remote locations and not physically in the office. Telecommuting plans will be worked out soon enough to avoid the slow down in the future. Snow has never had significant impact on our operations until the last few weeks. We viewed it in the same fashion that Ethan did, as a vacation day. With the recent weather though, we haven’t been running at full staff for 4 working days now.

A good portion of our interoffice collaboration takes place over the Internet. It’s easy to shoot off a quick IM to a coworker to check something out instead of walking over to their desk. All of this grinds to a halt with everyone at remote locations and not physically in the office. Telecommuting plans will be worked out soon enough to avoid the slow down in the future.

]]> Comment on How to Make the Most of a “Snow Day” by Ethan Giffin http://www.gobeyondit.com/blog/is-your-business-ready-for-a-snow-day/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Ethan Giffin Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:08 +0000 http://www.gobeyondit.com/?p=687#comment-7 I can tell you that this has made us begin to reevaluate our process and procedures for both disasters and disaster recovery. For a three year old company we may have missed a day or two in the past, which we pretty much treated like a vacation day. Many positives and negatives have come to light over the last week - Can everyone connect? Do they have the proper equipment to work from home? What would happen if people could not come in for a week? What if the office would burn down? What are new ways to connect and collaborate? All things that never get addressed until it was too late. I can tell you that this has made us begin to reevaluate our process and procedures for both disasters and disaster recovery. For a three year old company we may have missed a day or two in the past, which we pretty much treated like a vacation day.

Many positives and negatives have come to light over the last week – Can everyone connect? Do they have the proper equipment to work from home? What would happen if people could not come in for a week? What if the office would burn down? What are new ways to connect and collaborate? All things that never get addressed until it was too late.

]]> Comment on Have you had your Jimmy Johns lately? by Kevin Frew http://www.gobeyondit.com/blog/have-you-had-your-jimmy-johns-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Kevin Frew Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:55:09 +0000 http://www.gobeyondit.com/?p=552#comment-2 Wow!!!! You have got to be kidding me! I went broke in Chapel Hill getting the Garganchuan twice a day. Lets get lunch next week. Wow!!!! You have got to be kidding me! I went broke in Chapel Hill getting the Garganchuan twice a day. Lets get lunch next week.

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