Classification & Retention
Organizations must have the ability to preserve messaging for the appropriate length of time, in the right form and in a manner that makes it easy to access over the long term. To accomplish this, messaging classification and retention policy creation is becoming increasingly critical.
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Spam: Bigger, Faster, and More Dangerous
With spam continuing to rise and placing organizations at risk, it is more important than ever to identify and block unwanted email traffic.
Bad Behavior and Today's Reputation Analysis
IP-based DNS blacklists have been useful in the past to help separate legitimate email from spam, but today's analysis techniques can track reputation data more effectively.
The Changing Locus of Collaboration
New collaboration tools are emerging that have a broader focus than supporting the activities of teams working on explicit shared outcomes.
Serving Up Managed and Hosted Messaging Solutions
Managed and hosted messaging options about. Historically it has been SMBs taking advantage, but now larger organizations find outsourcing appealing as messaging continues to grow in complexity.
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Link roundup for 6/24/08
June 24, 2008
E-Discovery Leads to Arrest of Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Managers: The Wall Street & Technology Blog covers the depressingly evergreen story of senior management who send messages from their personal accounts about company actions that are illegal. This email about Bear Sterns acknowledged that a senior manager knew the fund was collapsing even though [...]
Link roundup for 6/16/08
June 16, 2008
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast: Matt Richtel at the New York Times writes about corporate recognition of the costs of interruption and distraction caused by email and other messaging technologies. Richtel now says that many of the companies that are also the largest messaging providers are working together to develop new tools [...]
Link roundup for 6/13/08
June 13, 2008
Man accused of using LinkedIn to steal clients: The Register covers a lawsuit regarding a former employee of a recruitment firm who allegedly used his LinkedIn account to essentially export his contacts from the firm so he could use them to start a new competing firm. This is interesting for several reasons particularly with regard [...]
Link roundup for 6/7/08
June 7, 2008
Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password: Jeff Atwood has a nice point outlining the unfortunately still too common practice of web services that request a user’s login and password from the major web services (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) in order to extract address book information. Not only is this an obviously bad idea, [...]
Link roundup for 5/31/08
May 31, 2008
Coding Horror: Designing For Evil: Jeff Atwood discusses some of the problems Craigslist has with spammers, some of the automated tools people can buy to spam Craiglist and some of the protections Craiglist has put in place to defended its community from spammers. Many of the problems and solutions apply to other community messaging systems. Email [...]
Link roundup for 5/28/08
May 28, 2008
Choosing the right email listserv: David Strom’s Web Informant provides a brief overview of free and inexpensive mailing list management tools suitable for individuals, groups, and small businesses. These services are often great improvements over attempting to manage a list directly from an email client. Strom is using Listserv in the generic sense as he [...]
DNS Made Easy Review
May 27, 2008
I have been hosting my own DNS for at least a decade. I recently switched to DNS Made Easy and have been happy with the service. I have also used EveryDNS as a no-frills secondary DNS service for years and recommend it. I began evaluating commercial DNS services and found DNS Made Easy. The management interface [...]
Privacy, spam, and anti-social networking
May 26, 2008
New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends: The Wall Street Journal has a piece on services and social network tools that can be used and abused to discover and extract information about individuals that would often be difficult to obtain otherwise. The Dark Side of Social Networking: Questions for Brant Walker: The Voice [...]