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Tag: communications (page 6)
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Assemble Your Communications Dream Team
According to a Towers Watson study, companies with highly effective communicators show an average of 47 percent higher total returns to shareholders. While communication skills have always been valued, tested in interviews, and sought out by workers in many departments, we now have quantitative evidence to justify this pursuit.
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Why It's Time to Abandon the Hybrid Cloud Model
Hybrid cloud computing and communications has been increasingly top of mind for companies of all sizes. Cloud is often a strategic business initiative, and many see hybrid as a safe stepping stone to solutions that are 100 percent cloud-based.
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6 Ways to Have Better Video Conferences
Video webcasting will become a core part of enterprise communications strategy for everything from internal training, sales calls and interaction with customers. That's the conclusion of a survey last month of 230 US employees from Chicago-based West Unified Communications, which provides video conferencing solutions.
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Tech News To Use: Understanding Video Conference Fears
It's hard being camera shy or afraid of public speaking in an era of video conferencing. But a lot of people are — and many of them also worry about minor but common issues such as poor Internet connections and how lighting affects appearance. That's the conclusion of Chicago-based West Unified Communications,
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US Defense Secretary: Backdoor Surveillance is ‘Unrealistic’ #RSAC
Only nine months before his job will very likely come to an end, the man overseeing much of the nation’s intelligence admits you can’t achieve intelligence in secret.
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ExpressRoute Welcomes Office 365 to the Private Cloud
With the release of its long-awaited Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 this past Wednesday, Microsoft now allows organizations to extend its ExpressRoute secure connectivity to Azure cloud services to enterprise usage of Office 365.
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Unify Square Gets $4M for Skype for Business
Unify Square, a startup that helps businesses implement Skype for Business, secured another $4 million in funding in a round led by Microsoft. This brings the total of an extended Series B round that started in February to $12.2 million.
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How Title II Led to the Charter + TWC Merger
The three-way merger between Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks, announced this morning, was rendered inevitable by the US Government’s reluctance to sanction a previous agreement between Time Warner and Comcast, citing its re-re-redefinition of Internet service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
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Alcatel-Lucent Helps You Add a 'Phone' to Salesforce
A funny thing happened on Alcatel-Lucent’s way to breaking ground on its Rapport Communications-as-a-Service platform. To the surprise of many, even within the organization, it completed its under-the-radar negotiations with Nokia, in a deal which may bring the caretaker of Bell Labs under the wing of a newly
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Unify Wants You to Call Customers with Your Browsers
A new round of competition has ignited a field that many considered all but dead just last year. Microsoft’s extension of Skype communications into the enterprise, replacing the Lync brand, and Cisco’s formal unveiling of Spark put unified communications (UC) back in the spotlight.
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Media Trainer Jim Cameron: How to Handle a PR Crisis
New York City area commuters are still feeling aftershocks from the deadliest train accident in the history of the Metro-North Railroad.
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Forrester Ranks Kaltura, 6 Others Leaders in Enterprise Video
Knock us over with a feather: Video has gone mainstream in the enterprise. In a Wave released yesterday for Enterprise Video Platforms and Webcasting, Forrester Research describes video as an increasingly common channel for both internal communication with other employees and external communication with customers and partners.
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Microsoft Lync Can Spy on Enterprise BYOD Use
Microsoft claims it has a solution to some of the most common bring your own device (BYOD) concerns: A way to spy on enterprise workers. Through its Lync app, it's giving enterprises a way to monitor what devices workers are using to communicate. Lync Reporting According to Yanzhao Zhang, a program manager on the Lync
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Lessons from Brazil Soccer: How to Manage a PR Crisis
Brazil lost to Germany 7-1 in the World Cup soccer semifinals Tuesday in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. That's like everyone getting food poisoning simultaneously at a convention to promote celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse's pasta sauce. It's the worst PR crisis you can imagine. Right on your home turf.
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