IT Site Presence – New Game for 2009-10
We believe that getting the IT staff out into the businesses is really helpful – we have been measuring this ‘onsite presence’ for a few years now and regularly adjusting the rules to make it more effective. It’s time for another change!
Compelling Reasons for Onsite presence addresses three [...]

We’ve adopted the Action Priority Matrix in our approach to projects, measuring impact against effort.  Tom at Mail Order found it, I think from MindTools, showed it to Elph; Elph shared it with us and other heads at ZingNet; now M&G teaches it in their class.  It’s a simple diagramming technique that helps you choose [...]

Elph spent time over the holidays running new patch cables in our server room at Mail Order.  It used to look like a technicolor octopus of CAT5 with 10-20 ft. tentacles.  Now it’s uniformly purple and decidedly better.

Al the Octopus

Many thanks to Billie for making our blog a mobile-friendly site.  Peep us from your smartphone,  ZingIT everywhere!

Elph came across dry-erase paint and magnetic primer from Rust-Oleum. Coating a wall in these products creates a giant magnetic whiteboard that can be written on and erased like any other whiteboard. Of course IT had to try it.
I chose a wall in our front office roughtly 9ft x 12ft. [...]

Using a tip from Josh at the Creamery, which directed me to the resources at Bikely, I created the Tour de Food bike map based my intimate experience of cyling across the ZCoB.