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Every day a flow of sensitive information and otherwise leaves your company via the internet. Once out the door there is no turning back. You have contracts, agenda points, financial forecasts, tutorials, private podcasts and all kinds of private communications heading into the wild blue yonder. Your company may mark it as private but forwarded emails can take on a life of their own. Your private company information could have the dubious honor of ending up on wikileaks.org!

In the conference call industry hundreds of our customers send out meeting agendas, briefing points, and background materials. And then afterwards post a podcast online.  To provide security we will launch a new digital rights management service to protect your confidential information. For example, your company wants to send out a confidential financial report to 50 people. With a subscription to our service you would upload it to a secure encrypted server. From the server you would send out an email to all 50 people. You have the option of them viewing it on the site, giving them a certain number of times to view and protecting the information from being copied via screen sharing or printing. If downloaded you have the options of the document “disintegrating” after a certain period of time. Also CCU’s digital rights management solutions blocks printing copies and forwarding the attachment to other parties.

In summary our digital rights management solution will provide enterprise customers with a cost effective way to securely encrypt, apply a wide array of rights management security controls and track and report all of your proprietary and confidential content in an easy to use application tool.

Michael O’Malley in his The Wisdom of Bees writes the following:

Bees have honed an exceptionally complex system of information exchange by which they monitor internal and external conditions, convey hive status and needs to one another and direct activities . . . perhaps could take what the bees do so well and apply it to our institutions so we do better.

These tools to integrate an organization include conference calling, web conferencing, wikis,  shared documents. Everyone uses conference calling these days. Its one of de facto tools of an organization. Surprisingly Baseline Magazine reports that 61% of organizations now use web conferencing in the armory of increased integration.

Baseline Magazine has an in depth report on the beehiving phenomenon that has started to grow and evolve in companies using social networking tools.

Enterprise Networking in the Age of the Internet has become critical for developing business contacts; establishing company and personal brands; identifying potential employees and employers; gaining business intelligence; and finding resources. LinkedIn is the most popular purely business networking site. It has 60 million users that include a high percentage of CEO’s, senior management, and college graduates who work for Fortune 500 companies.

This Conference Calls Unlimited white paper contains a quick guide to gaining mastery of LinkedIn basics. Download this pdf here:    LinkedIn

Last spring when H1N1 influenza was big news we advised our readers to prepare for the 2009-2010 flu season with back up plans.  This included work from home options and using teleconferencing/webconferencing options to keep your business operating as efficiently as possible.

Affiliated Physicians will give a complimentary webinar on June 9th at 2:00pm EST.  It includes an assessment of the past flu season along with the lessons learned from that event. It also will give you an overview of the 2010-2011 flu season.

This video  may resonate with your own experience of what sometimes goes on behind the scenes on a conference call.

Growing our businesses requires a good first impression. That includes choosing the right conference call provider. Relying on a free conference call service looks like a good business decision, because well…it’s free. If you have ever had dropped calls, static on the line, background noise you want solutions now. Or at the very least technical support that can track down and help you to prevent it from happening again.

So put that pencil to the paper and figure out whether free is best or a paid full service provider is best for you.

This is the third article in a three part series on Cloud Computing. This white paper provides a critical checklist of issues that managers must evaluate before moving confidential company data from their own data centers into The Cloud: availability, security, privacy, auditing, dependency, regulation, authorization, interoperability, and communication.

Download this white paper pdf:  Cloud Computing 3

This article is the second in a three part series on Cloud Computing. This white paper shows how the three largest Cloud vendors are providing HaaS, PaaS, and Saas. It also shows examples of how customers are typically using these services.

Download this white paper pdf:  Cloud Computing 2

Cloud Computing is the biggest trend in data storage and processing these days. This white paper is the first in a three part series examining the history, major players and risks of Cloud Computing. Part 1 looks at what innovations lead us from data centers to The Cloud.

Download this white paper pdf:  Cloud 1

Airlines are adding wi-fi connectivity for computers and cell phones. What are the companies installing these services? How do their wi-fi services differ? Will travelers want to remain connected to the internet while flying?

Download this white paper pdf:  Inflight Wi-Fi