Effective Project Management with Lync

A project manager is required to possess focus, organizational skills, a positive attitude, and most importantly, impeccable communication skills.  We use several tools to help us effectively manage the projects that we lead or are directly involved in.  Tools such as Microsoft Project help us to track milestones and tasks...

Uncomfortable But Necessary: Updating Processes by Utilizing Technology

I can’t even remember a time before I used DropBox; what did I do! And for that matter, a time before using email and smart phones. Years ago I worked for a commercial real estate firm. I was assisting in a property management take over of several prominent buildings. These...

Overview of On-Premises Lync vs Top Lync Hosting Offerings with Office 365

For a fully integrated enterprise voice solution utilizing Microsoft Lync, there are two options: self-hosted or vendor hosted. This overview will focus on the integration between Office 365 and Lync, comparing the self-hosted option with two of the top partners in the Lync hosting market (Workspace and OBT). The current...

Improvements in Lync 2013

Lync 2010 was Microsoft’s software for unified communication.  It was a robust product and had tons of great features but you could tell this was their first edition at this type of software. The interface was good but it was lacking a lot of key features.   One of my biggest...