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- Digital Surveillance: Software or Hardware?
If you are considering installing a surveillance system in your organization, you are probably deciding between the two types of solutions: hardware or software. With each approach having its pros and contras what will you choose? This article is about to help you make a weighted decision.
If you are managing a condominium and want a video camera on the front door, or when you need a garage monitoring system for an underground parkade you are pretty much forced to use a set of recording video cameras.But do you want a video surveillance system in your office?
While video surveillance may increase the performance and discipline of your employees, it can also have negative impact on the psychological climate among employees. Hardware-based video surveillance is easy to abuse, and you must know and comply with the appropriate laws and legislations. Hidden video surveillance is illegal pretty much everywhere, you you're losing an opportunity to catch a dishonest employee selling off your trade secrets or telling your competitors about your plans. Finally, hardware-based surveillance can't record anything meaningful from the computer screens. You'll see dark and bright spots at best, and will never know what programs were opened, what Web sites were visited and what was typed in that chat window.
Software surveillance, on the other hand, is still unregulated by the governments and can be used without making your employees aware. Surveillance software disciplines your employees without causing the negative reaction to video surveillance and apparent video cameras. Finally, it is virtually impossible to abuse software surveillance because it works only on the employees' computers that are supposed to be used for only one thing: work. Consider surveillance software a performance control tool and not a system to monitor employees.
Besides the legal and psychological benefits the importance of which is hard to evaluate, software surveillance provides a number of direct benefits. With computer surveillance software you can record your employees' activities down to the last keystroke and mouse click. This low-level control is there if you need it, but if you don't you can always revert to the more convenient, higher level control. Good surveillance software recognizes popular chats and instant messengers such as AIM, ICQ or MSN and logs the conversations, allowing you to access formatted chat logs that are easy to go through.
If you decided on software surveillance against a video monitoring system, there's only one thing left: what surveillance software to chose from the many offerings? While there is no lack of software surveillance solutions, KGB Spy http://www.refog.com/ conveniently integrates the things that are most important to corporate users: security, convenience and features. Being a fully featured software surveillance system, KGB Spy offers all the usual gimmicks such as keystroke capturing, application logging and Web site monitoring. However, being a corporate-oriented product, KGB Spy goes even further, providing features such as remote access to logs via email or FTP, instant remote alerts on pre-defined events such as certain key phrases, and complete environmental control. KGB Spy makes periodic captures of the computer screen, showing you detailed snapshots instead of the blurred spots you would see on a video camera. Finally, KGB Spy is virtually undetectable and practically impossible to remove without knowing the administrative password.
And here's one last yet most important feature of software surveillance: you can download, install and evaluate a complete surveillance system for absolutely free! Get your copy of KGB Spy from http://www.refog.com/ and get comfortable with the advanced surveillance features before paying.About the Author
Professional IT security consultant. During my career I have worked on engagements at clients in a wide range of industry sectors, from a variety of financial institutions, to entertainment and media organisations.
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- Philosophy of successful time management or how to start working with LeaderTask?
Introduction. LeaderTask what is it?
Before you start using the LeaderTask organizer, you should learn about its features, i.e. find out what it can do and what it cannot do. First of all, LeaderTask is a personal organizer for everyday activities whose main features are:
* Task Scheduler (http://www.leadertask.com/content/view/49/53/)
* Calendar
* Personal Information Manager
* Contact Manager
* Project Manager
The organizer has a portable version, i.e. it is completely autonomous = mobile. LeaderTask depends neither on the computer, nor on Windows registry, it can easily exist on your flash drive and travel with you!
Getting started.
Important issues you should know about:
First - LeaderTask is a unique organizer. It is not an advertising slogan, it is a new concept for managing tasks, projects, time and human activities. You can see it for yourself. So what is unique about it? It is the following things: tasks have a set of parameters (tags) you can use to quickly get answers to your questions. For example, you can get the following to-do lists in one mouse click: "My today tasks", "IMPORTANT", "URGENT", "Monthly Sales", "Project XYZ in September", "Monitoring delegated tasks", "Bank", "To buy", "To read", "Meeting issues", "Overdue tasks", "Year goals"...
Second - LeaderTask is very flexible. Anyone can customize LeaderTask and implement his own usual methodology for managing his activities. It is also possible to successfully use David Allen's GTD (Getting Things Done) system in LeaderTask.
Third - it is possible to associate tasks in LeaderTask with any context you find suitable. Any thing can be used as context - place (home, office, bank, store...), contact (boss, subordinate, spouse...), category, project... Speaking the language of time management, any task can be associated with its kairos (context), i.e. the circumstances that suit the task best. For example, if you need to do it in a bank, it is better to add it to the "Bank" section, if another person should do some task in a project, it should be added to the corresponding project and assigned to this person, if a task is important, you should give it the corresponding priority, etc.
Entering initial data.
To start using LeaderTask, you should enter some minimum initial data without which it will be difficult to understand how LeaderTask works. For your convenience, you can use the predefined initial data you are offered in the Quick Start wizard when you start the program for the first time.
Contacts. Add your contact groups and the contacts you need. Make sure you add information about yourself - the very first contact (set the Favorite property)
Categories. Define the categories of your activities. To make planning convenient, create types of your professional activities, hobbies and also places you visit most often in the Categories section. Sample categories: "Calls", "Meetings", "Reading", "Watching", "Buying", "Thinking", "Family", "Rest", "Health", "Office","Bank", "Store". Set the Favorite property for the main categories.
Projects. Define the projects you work on. Do not mix up categories with projects and tasks. Remember that a project is what you can do. A project has time limits, and its aim is to produce something unique. It is convenient to divide projects into meaningful groups. Set the Favorite property for the main projects.
Calendar. Use the calendar to define periods of time that are most suitable for planning your time. For example: Today, Tomorrow, Current Week, Month, Year, 1st quarter 2007, 2nd quarter 2007... Also, set the Favorite property for the main periods.
The Favorite property makes the item to be shown in the drop-down menu on the Filter bar.
How it works.
The main areas in LeaderTask - Navigator, Filter bar and Task pane. The task pane (displayed as a calendar here) shows only those tasks that meet the filtering criteria. I.e. if you select "Project -YZ" in the filter, all tasks related to project XYZ will be displayed. You can filter tasks by projects, contacts, categories, date. There can be several filtering parameters at a time, but there can be none at all, i.e. no filtering (all tasks present in the LeaderTask database will shown in this case). For your convenience, you can save a set of filtering parameters as a ready-made filter. You can make such a filter favorite and enable it from the quick menu.
Quick favorite filter selection menu.
When you select a filter, tasks with the necessary parameters are shown. For example, when you select the "Mine for today" filter, your tasks for the current day will be shown. The "Site activities in November" filter will show tasks related to the "Site"