River Trent at Gainsborough
It was an early start this morning to be with a client, as they opened their office, to solve a network issue that stopped them working at the end of the business day yesterday.
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Remote Working – My office today…
I have come away this weekend as Octagon has a number of weekend projects scheduled over the coming weeks; but I also have some presentations to work on. So for today this is my office.
Remote Working
Not only does remote working mean that our team can work from home, or client sites, or from the local wifi cafe. But especially for Diana and myself we can access our systems and information whilst we are away on holiday.
On my agenda today:
- Email and team scheduling using our secure hosted exchange
- Collecting photos and other information for the presentations
- Preparing the slides on my iPad using Microsoft PowerPoint connected to our OneDrive whilst writing my speaking notes using OneNote on my iPod
- Phone meetings with both Kamila and Martin
- A walk along the river into St Neots to find a good tea shop
Whilst remote working to keep everything charged I have a USB charge plug in my MX-5 that supplies both 1A, for my phone and iPod and 2.1A for my iPad.
When the phone is in this bracket it is easy to use it as a personal hotspot so my wifi enabled devices can get on the Internet, this saves multiple SIM card costs.
Add to these my collection of tech gadgets, cables, brackets and chargers, a multi-coloured pen and a hard cover A5 notebook and I have everything with me to work away from home.
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Octagon at Work
Today’s photo is for a blog post Kamila is writing for Octagon Technology about remote working and IT systems.
Martin is fixing an issue for a client, remotely over the Internet. Kamila is updating our Twitter account and it is Connor’s turn to pour the tea!
We had all met up for our weekly staff meeting at The Food Bar, in Lincoln. Good coffee, sausage in a bap and wifi. The meeting notes and agenda had been distributed beforehand using our hosted exchange and OneNote.
Watch out for the full article tomorrow on the Octagon blog.
The article has been produced in association with B&G HR.
Tea – Remote Working – OneNote
Today’s photo is for an article Kamila is writing for Octagon about the way we are a company that fully embraces remote and home working.
The shot was not staged. I had stopped off in Octagon’s current favourite wifi cafe to write up some notes in Microsoft OneNote on my iPod Touch. Once synchronised other members of the Octagon team can quickly be using my notes.
Being able to work where ever I am is good for my time management. I can work on and share files in the cloud between meetings and appointments without wasting time travelling back to a fixed office.
Battery life
When working on the road, keeping things charged is always a priority. By using my iPod Touch it saves the battery life of my iPhone and iPad. The owners of this cafe have allowed me charge my phone whilst having lunch.
At Octagon we are helping our clients to take advantage of the benefits of home and remote working, saving money and creating a happy teams.
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Hosted exchange server
I shot this photo for an article Kamila is writing for the Octagon Technology website.
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IT Support today
With some of our team on annual leave today I had to cover the support:
I also met with a client to finalise a project to replace a Windows 2003 server.
Website updates
I bought an Apple iPod Touch yesterday.
This will be a useful bit of kit and supplement my smartphone when I am walking, backpacking or camping.
Read about this and other updates to my backpacking and camping gear for 2015
