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    Video conferencing: The business case

    It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. At the push of a button, we are chatting to colleagues in Toronto, Canada, speaking to each other as if we were seated across the table. We see the nuances of facial expressions, hand gestures and presentations, full-size, clear and uninterrupted.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 07 Aug. 10 09:00

  • Monash eyes video conferencing for collaboration boost

    Monash University is upping its use of next generation, high definition video conferencing in an effort to foster greater collaboration between students, lecturers and researchers.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 27 May 09 13:28

  • What CIOs Need To Know about Desktop Video Conferencing

    Practical advice from Purdue Pharma CIO Larry Pickett.

    Written by Jarina D'Auria • 12 May 09 04:41

  • Telepresence Promises Productive Meetings

    The travel budget needs cutting, says the CFO. The corporate -social responsibility people say we have to take this green agenda seriously. HR reports that the latest polls have executives bleating about how much time they're spending on planes. Smaller local subsidiaries think they're not getting enough face time with company leaders. What are you going to do? For some CIOs, the answer lies in a relatively new concept called telepresence.

    Written by Martin Veitch • 01 Sept. 08 15:09

  • Greener IT Means Benchmarking

    Green IT is about retooling business processes and the ICT environment to reduce energy consumption and the organisation's carbon footprint. Happily, this coincides with increasing pressure to improve operational efficiencies and reduce processing costs. Thus, an improvement at the bottom line can also enhance a company's green credentials - a development that is becoming both a legislative requirement and a competitive differentiator.

    Written by Robert Saxby • 19 May 08 08:40

  • Struggling to Support Remote Workers? It's Only Going to Get Worse

    Your IT department will soon need to support more remote workers than ever before. Both technology changes - such as video adoption - and cultural issues - such as user expectation - will require that your company embrace telecommuting. Doesn't that just cheer up your day?

    Written by Esther Schindler • 18 April 08 12:33

  • Government Urged to Move on Telework

    The Facilitator of the Australian Telework Awareness initiative says telework is a very good idea, which Australian government CIOs should be promoting far more vigorously

    Written by Sue Bushell • 20 March 08 12:38

  • Running an Effective Teleconference or Virtual Meeting

    Meetings are hard enough to run when the participants are all in the same room, fighting over the last chocolate doughnut. But any meeting you call, nowadays, probably has at least one person attending who works in a remote location. In some cases, everyone in the teleconference is dialing in. You may be great at orchestrating an in-person meeting, but running an effective teleconference requires new skills.

    Written by Esther Schindler • 18 Feb. 08 11:13

  • Telecommuters Need to Develop Special Skills

    Whether you telecommute personally or you work with telecommuters, you should be aware of the pitfalls - and the solutions - so you can deal with them before they become problems in which a manager does need to get involved

    Written by Esther Schindler • 05 June 07 11:13

  • The Art of Directing a Virtual Workforce

    IT managers and CIOs trying to decide what level of telecommuting is appropriate for their employees might be asking the wrong question, according to one management expert.

    Written by Mari-Len De Guzman • 02 May 07 16:33

  • Telecommute. Kill a Career?

    Employees who frequently telecommute may damage or kill their chances to advance within a particular career.

    Written by Michael Cooney • 02 May 07 11:43

  • Teleworking Nursing Care

    Whether nurses work in hospitals, private practice or dispense medical advice over the phone, they are social animals, caregivers. At the call centers of McKesson Health Solutions, nurse-agents are quick to celebrate birthdays and organize potluck dinners -- developing strong bonds with colleagues.

    Written by Toni Kistner • 24 April 07 16:31

  • Teleworking Falls Victim to Archaic Attitudes and Change Phobia

    Archaic attitudes and a widespread resistance by management to change in the workplace is stalling the teleworking trend.

    Written by Michael Crawford • 24 April 07 16:20
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    Teleworking a Hidden Fix In Disaster Recovery Plans

    One of the best kept disaster recovery and business continuity secrets in the industry is not even on companies' radar: that's the failure to push teleworking for staff as an ideal fallback measure.

    Written by Michael Crawford • 24 April 07 16:17

  • Striving to Keep Teleworkers Happy

    IBM's efforts to create a flexible work environment have been so successful that 40 percent of its 330,000 employees work from home, on the road, or at a client location on any given day. But a few years ago, the company realized that as its staff became more distributed, employee morale was weakening.

    Written by Ann Bednarz • 24 April 07 16:09

  • Security a Top Issue As Teleworking Grows

    Security continues to dominate as IT's most pressing concern when it comes to supporting a large telecommuting workforce. But while security is a concern, teleworking, especially in the government realm, continues to grow at an impressive clip according to a study released by the CDW Government consultancy.

    Written by Michael Cooney • 24 April 07 16:02

  • Enterprise Mobility Is Nascent Reality

    The concept of enterprise mobility has been maturing for years, but large companies are only just beginning to get their hands around wireless technologies, according to the latest report from Forrester Research.

    Written by Matt Hines • 24 April 07 11:05

  • A Few Tips for Staying Healthy in a Stressful Job

    Australia is getting larger — not in land mass, but in body mass. Everyday we're starting to look more and more like our US cousins, which is a worry (more than two-thirds of Americans are overweight, according to a study conducted last year by the International Labour Office of the United Nations).

    Written by Katherine Walsh • 07 Feb. 07 13:57
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    Remote Control

    Google should shoulder some responsibility for remote access to corporate information systems. Its Internet engines suggest it is possible to access anything anywhere anytime. If Google can do it, executives argue, why not rip down the walls on corporate information systems and let employees access them anytime anywhere too?

    Written by Beverley Head • 09 Oct. 06 12:05
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