Briscoe Network Solutions

How cloudy is it?

Phill Briscoe — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:53:08 +0000

Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get several emails relating to cloud computing; the market is rife with new tools and rebranded old tools for our cloud technology tool box. Quite often the approach regarding these tools is on the same level of selling new cars. “Be the first on your block”, be [...]

How are you using Office 365?

Phill Briscoe — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:11:13 +0000

I get a lot of things in my inbox, most of which is insignificant (I won’t say junk since most of it is legitimate) but last week I got a couple of You Tube examples which I thought I share. Although this is an article about a real estate agency and I have mentioned working [...]

Yes, I said, how’s your insurance?

Phill Briscoe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:36 +0000

It’s been twelve years since I’ve been a property and casualty insurance agent but when a client contacted me about replacing or repairing a damaged newly purchased laptop I found that my insurance cap still fit. In short, off site a staff person had somehow damaged the screen on a three week old laptop and [...]

Conversations for Collaboration: Red Wire Services

Phill Briscoe — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:35:55 +0000

Quite often when I ask a crowd “When was the last time you backed up?” all of the hands go up but I’m always taken back by the furtive glances and occasional snickers. For a business loss of critical information can be fatal. Losses can come from many different sources ranging from hard drive and [...]

Conversations for Collaboration: Quick and Easy Accounting

Phill Briscoe — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:30:08 +0000

Are you networking or collaborating? All too often small businesses participate in networking events only to increase their stack of business cards or add more names for the next newsletter mailing. With all of the networking we do how many relationships do we create? If you are only looking for possible referrals then networking can [...]

Transitioning with Office 365 and SharePoint

Phill Briscoe — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:30:07 +0000

The last couple of years as I learned more about BPOS and SharePoint, I began encouraging small businesses to test and experiment with SharePoint as a document management/collaboration system. To this effort, I’ve posted several notes and “How to videos” illustrating simple uses of SharePoint. As a collaboration tool, SharePoint has many facets which were [...]

Google + and the Small Business: A Relationship Doomed to Failure?

CoreyY — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:10:10 +0000

I’m sure by now everyone that is involved with promoting their business through social media has heard about Google+, Google’s social media offering. Naturally, with every new social media movement, you have savvy business owners looking to leverage their brand. (Usually for free.) So far, however, there has been a snag for those early adopters [...]

Are You Upholding Your Digital Rep? “10 Easy” Steps for Reputation Management

CoreyY — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:23:23 +0000

Reputation management is one of the fastest growing parts of online marketing and that’s most apparent by the number of specialists and companies cropping up claiming to be experts. What they don’t want you to know, however, is that reputation management is no more difficult than the normal PR any small business needs, only done [...]

Office 365, now what?

Phill Briscoe — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:40:53 +0000

Narrative. I’m finally up and running with Office 365 but before I get a little more technical and describe my process, I think I need to remind everyone why we are looking at cloud technologies. For small businesses there are only two real reasons for cloud technologies: Simplify and reduce reliance on the ever changing [...]

OK, Let’s move to Office 365!

Phill Briscoe — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:51:08 +0000

I’m a traditionalist! My view of a networked office always focuses on a server for centralized management supporting a network of 3 or more workstations. The key for me is management centricity for the system, providing centralized shared file access, managed file security, network antivirus monitoring and control, file storage, housing for specialty lines of [...]