Coming Soon

As I mentioned in our recent newsletter, we are very excited about the new hosting services we can now deliver to our clients. Our goal is to be your single phone call for all your IT needs. These new services are another step to meet that goal.

Over the coming weeks, we will continue to expand our mail server offerings. Through our partnership with Own Web Now, we will be able to offer expanded mail server support on the Exchange Defender TM platform. The new product updates will deliver benefits to your most critical business function, email, including:

• Spam blocking eliminates spam before it reaches your mail server
  
• Individual management of your spam filters so each user can decide what they want blocked or delivered
  
• Scan of outgoing email for potential viruses
  
• Protection from Real Time Blacklists mean your mail will be delivered
  
• Live Archive Feature allowing you access to your exchange email even if your server goes down
  

Email has become the most critical application for small businesses. Protecting your email is the most critical component of your security and disaster recovery plan. For only pennies/ day you can protect your most important business application and sleep safe knowing your email is protected both in your mailbox and as it travels around the globe.

Another example of how we support your business with best-in-show IT solutions.

New Tools to Manage your Inbox

Email has become the most crucial tool in the business world, regardless of your size. We all have huge mail folders we try to manage. Everyone has a different approach for organizing and managing email. Some create folders by client or subject. Some create rules to automatically move messages to the right folder. Personally I prefer a flat approach. I just keep it all in my inbox and use search tools to find that email I have not gotten a response on, or need to follow up.

Experts say the knowledge workers will soon be spending up to 40% of their work day just managing email. That’s how important this has become. I found a new tool to help manage my inbox. It’s called xobni. It’s an simple outlook plugin, and it’s simply awesome. It gives a lot of great information about your email. Who do you email with the most? What time of day are they most likely to reply? How fast do they reply? Search by person and find attachments you have been sharing. Link to appointments and phone numbers. Even view their Linked In profile.

It’s pretty powerful stuff. As a new product, it is still available as a free download, but who knows how long that will last. Check it out here.