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Articles by Steve Smith
Email is the beloved and bane of corporate life in the digital era. It enhances real-time internal and external communication, but its simplicity and low learning curve make it the natural place for all employees to dump and distribute every kind of material. Email attachments become unregulated publishing systems; collaborations become confusing round-robin message loops with countless revised versions of the same documents; while critical communications with partners and clients are dispersed across multiple employee inboxes with no hope of tracking back important message and document exchanges.
For all these reasons and more, Austin-based information security and remote access provider Permeo sought an intranet solution that could help discipline internal and external communications as well as centralize document storage and distribution for sales and marketing departments. Rather than build its own, which the company estimates could have taken more than two years, it opted for a hosted content-storage solution from Minnesota-based iCentera that turns documents and communication exchanges into custom portals for both employees and partners.
If you dismiss podcasting as over-hyped, hip tech of the week, too niche or geeky for your buttoned-down stick-to-business intranet, then pop in a set of earbuds and listen up! These downloadable audio shows for playback on remote devices (or any desktop media player, for that matter) are little more than a year old, but key corporations already rave about their effectiveness for internal communications.
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