Owner: Richard Butler's Environmental Business Blog URL:http://www.technilink.co.uk/dmblog.htm Join Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:35:21 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Business and environmentalism must learn to work hand in hand. Web conferencing is a way to increase a company's profitability whilst reducing its Carbon Footprint.
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An article on Web Conferencing. 2007-03-28 17:04:00 I've been searching around the web for sites and blogs about web conferencing in general, and have found an article which is very relevant.I welcome any comments you have on this article and this subject in general.Benefits of Web-Based Conferencing
I recently graduated from college, and instead of taking a corporate programming job, my friend and I started our own web development company. Everything was going great…we were both working from home and enjoying small successes. However, we soon realized that text messaging could only go so far, especially when we hired several employees. Text messaging was slow, and was “noisy” when several people were in a chatroom. We quickly needed a solution.Fortunately, we discovered web-based conferencing. Web-based conferencing has several flavors, including peer-to-peer direct conferencing, remote server hosting, and shared remote hosting. They all have their own benefits and disadvantages, which will be explained. First, general web-based
Test Page of DigitalMeeting Blog 2006-12-13 18:18:00 Hi Everyone,Just the first note to see it's all working. I will be writing about the benefits of all types of conferencing for business to business communication.Richard
A moving experience. 2007-04-04 17:54:00 Hello All!So that's it- we have finally moved into our new office in Southgate Chambers.A very nice room it is too- plenty of space and a cracking view of the church just across the road.This is a much better working environment, unfortunately this comes at a price... four floors of stairs every day, up and down- just think of all the carbon dioxide we'll be puffing out climbing them! Still, should keep the fitness levels topped up! Read more:experience
So how do we know how much carbon we are producing? 2007-04-03 11:41:00 A tonne of CO2 is emitted when you: fly 2,000 miles in an aeroplane.drive 1,300 miles in a large SUV.drive 1,900 miles in a mid-sized car.drive 6,000 miles in a hybrid car.run an average US household for 60 days.run your computer for 10,600 hours.graze a Ugandan dairy cow for eight months. Average CO2 emissions per year: 4.5 tonnes for the average US car.4.5 tonnes for the average global citizen.6.2 tonnes for electricity use of the average US household.21 tonnes for the average US resident.1.5 million tonnes for a 500MW gas power plant.8.3 million tonnes for an older 1,000MW coal power plant.6 billion tonnes for the US as a whole.25 billion tonnes for the planet as a whole. Source: A Consumer's Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers, Clean Air-Cool Planet, 2006 Read more:producing
Every businesses environmental policy affects another... 2007-04-11 16:53:00 Transcript This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio. Small businesses
urged to minimise energy expenditure PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY The World Today - Wednesday, 11 April , 2007 12:20:00 Reporter: Samantha Donovan ELEANOR HALL: Australia's small businesses are being urged to minimise their impact on the environment if they want to remain competitive.A former adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair says many multinational companies are looking to impress customers with their "green credentials" and that means suppliers right along the chain need to improve their performance.But a recent survey of Victorian small businesses shows that half of them don't even know how much energy they're using.In Melbourne, Samantha Donovan reports.SAMANTHA DONOVAN: The survey conducted by the Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that cost and time are preventing small businesses from saving w Read more:environmental
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A steak-out in Winchester 2007-04-13 11:21:00 On Thursday after work, I got one of those feelings- you know the type, when you think "The one thing I really could do with is a huge chunk of dead cow". Now Winchester is a strange place to get a decent bite to eat mid-evening: It goes from REALLY high class and expensive to simple mass produced pub grub and kebabs with not a great lot of quality affordable restaurants in-between. I really was struggling to find a decent steak anywhere until I walked past one our Italian restaurants and saw a T-bone on the menu in the window (always a good sign).Two glasses of wine, a starter of calamaris which were just to die for and said steak later, I was fully sated and totally satisfied. Which led me to think...why don't we do a restaurant guide for businesspeople visiting Winchester?So, No 1 on my list is PappagalloAs it was a weeknight and ,as expected because of that, the restaurant was not full, the waiting staff were polite and attentive and, once the food was ordered, it arrived in a
Feeling guilty about business travel?You're not alone! 2007-04-17 17:38:00 UK drivers suffer ‘green guilt’17 April 2007 Despite a heightened awareness of the green agenda in recent months, three-quarters of drivers climb behind the wheel every single day. But according to research from Prudential Car Insurance, this is beginning to play on our conscience with one-in-five admitting they feel guilty about driving in cities because of the potential environmental damage.The younger generation of 18-24 year olds (14 per cent) is far less bothered about their urban driving habits compared to 35-44 year olds (22 per cent). Also, more men (20 per cent) are wracked with guilt than women (18 per cent). But if we feel this bad about it – why are we still driving each and every day?Prudential’s survey reveals that six-in-ten drivers (57 per cent) reluctantly view driving in the city as a necessary evil, despite having access to a plethora of public transport links. According to drivers, the dependability of public transport is at the heart o Read more:Feeling
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DigitalMeeting short listed for business award. 2007-04-19 11:57:00 We've just had some great news which we thought we would share with you all.Newslink 19th April 2007 technilink short listed
for the Winchester 2007 Business Excellence Awards technilink iT Ltd are proud to announce that we have been short listed for the 2007 eHampshire award for e-commerce. As part of the Winchester Business Excellence Awards, technilink have been short listed in the e-commerce category which means that we have demonstrated “the use of e-commerce to deliver business objectives and have shown the positive impact of e-commerce and improved business performance as a result.” CEO Richard Butler says “This is fantastic for technilink as recognition that DigitalMeeting is a powerful product, both in terms of using the internet as a business tool in the ‘real world’ and as an easy and cost effective way for a company to reduce its carbon footprint by cutting down on the emissions caused by unnecessary travel.” The competition entry was in the fo
Newslink April 2007 -Thanks! 2007-04-20 14:16:00 Many thanks to all of those who have sent us such positive emails. We really appreciate you taking the time to read our news items and to comment on them.What would be really great is if you could get in touch with us by posting comments in this blog.We'll constantly monitor it and enter into any conversation you want to start... The great thing about this is that you can reply to each other's comments too- so feel free to use our blogspace as a free networking area and let's get everybody talking to each other.You never know who you might make a good contact with!This is one of our ways of showing that the internet can be used in many aspects of business, not just for ordering and payment. Communication is what we are all about, so let's all get talking to each other.In your comments you can leave embedded links back to your own sites, and get an internet network up and running too... believe me, this does amazing things to the hit-rate on your website!If anybody wants to see w Read more:April
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technilink stay on the right side of the law(yers). 2007-05-01 17:23:00 Excerpt from...Press Release Technilink iT Ltd 27.04.07 DigitalMeeting helps solicitors embrace the modern world. Bonallack and Bishop is a legal firm with a difference. The Wiltshire based solicitors have three offices, in Salisbury, Amesbury and Andover (Hants). Between them, they have shown massive expansion over the last few years and are now using a new business tool to ensure that they stay at the forefront of the legal profession. Technilink iT Ltd, working from Winchester, are the providers of DigitalMeeting. This is an audio/web conferencing system which allows for the showing and sharing of documents over the computer screen. The images and applications on the ‘chairperson’s’ screen can be seen by all other invitees to the conference, whilst the telephone handles the audio communication. When required, the applications can be ‘handed over’ to the other participants, allowing live, real time collaboration whi
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum... 2007-05-11 11:16:00 The people at eHampshire have just set up what we hope will become a popular part of their web service.An open forum is now available for any Hampshire business person to discuss particular events, debate business matters, get a general opinion about things or just have a good chatter.Why not have a look and join in with the forum- and that's just what it was set up for!You can shortcut to the forum by clicking here. Read more:Forum
Happy National Work from Home day. 2007-05-18 14:07:00 So, how many of you are taking the initiative to work from home today? National
Work from Home day is an initiative by Work Wise UK to encourage businesses to see the advantages of the use of flexible and home working patterns. It's not dissimilar to MATISSE (who in fact are heavily featured on the Work Wise site). I sent a quick email out yesterday to all of our Newslink members just to bring to their attention that Work from Home day is happening.Also Google Alerts fed me this article, which I feel ties in very nicely with the spirit of the day...Oxford University report reveals that homeworking can reduce global warming 17/05/2007An Oxford University report has revealed that working from home can help reduce the emission of the gases that cause global warming.The study, which pulls together research from around the world, demonstrates conclusively, that the reduction in commuting time resulting from people working at home will mean less carbon dioxide is released into the atmosph Read more:Happy
Newslink, May 2007. 2007-05-22 08:05:00 By now, our newslink club members should have received the May edition, which has invited them to engage in some good clean lively debate the issues we have raised.So to those of you who have come here directly from the newslink, feel free to talk things over between yourselves within this post, almost as a forum.To those of you who are wondering what the fuss is all about, all you need to do to read the original articles is to join our newslink club by registering here.Now, to get thing started...Global warming- threat to our existence or a conspiracy forged by people who can see potentially untold riches by using carbon credits, offsetting and environmental commodity trading as a cash cow?
Bonallack and Bishop webinar. 2007-05-31 08:49:00 Newslink 1st June 2007 Online Webinar for you via DigitalMeeting Our friends at Bonallack & Bishop
Solicitors are hosting a Free Webinar using DigitalMeeting, about "Internet and Distance Selling Regulations". I thought this would be of interest for you, so please find their invitation below. To book a place for the 6th of June please contact Liz at liz.granville-sharp@bishopslaw.comFor further details of this webinar event, please read the rest of the newslink by clicking here.
Training doesn't have to be done by train... 2007-05-30 04:39:00 Those Google Alerts I requested using the keywords 'business', 'environment' and 'carbon footprint' have turned up a gem of an article about training and the most ecologically viable ways to go about it. This is a very well balanced article, paying off the environmental side against the practicalities and can be read here. Read more:Training
Computer companies aim for emission reduction targets. 2007-06-25 07:21:00 It seems that Silicon Valley is helping to lead a drive to make computers more energy efficient, cutting down on their energy usage and therefore their carbon footprint.Please enjoy this article below. Intel and Google have joined with Dell, EDS, the Environmental Protection Agency, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, PG&E, World Wildlife Fund and more than 25 additional organizations have launched the Climate Savers Computing Initiative with the goal of saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emission
s by setting aggressive new targets
for energy-efficient computers and components. The group has set a 90 percent efficiency target for power supplies which the group says could save more than $5.5 billion in energy costs. Urs Holzle, a Google senior vice president, estimated that most PC power supplies currently operate at about 65 percent efficiency. The Energy Star guidelines seek to raise that level to 80 percent efficiency, but the new initiative sets targets to reach 90 percent efficie Read more:Computer
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Mapping Britain's Emissions. 2007-07-05 04:53:00 This is an article I came across in today's TimesOnline, written by Lewis Smith, their environment reporter. I've cut it down and brought out some salient points, however the map speaks for itself.The first carbon emissions map of Britain
is released today to show which part of the country are responsible for pumping out the most pollution. It was put together by the carbon trust to encourage homes and businesses to cut their carbon consumption.Emissions from businesses were singled out by the trust, which believes that the sector could do more to reduce the carbon variations between towns and cities.In Brighton and Southend, the business sector is responsible for 33% of emissions, whereas in Leicester,Norwich and Sheffield that figure is 55%.Tom Delaney, The Carbon Trust's chief executive said: "Business has a critical role to play in tackling climate change as it is responsible for 40% of the CO2 emissions in the UK..."Hugh Jones, project director at the trust added: "Business h Read more:Mapping
DigitalMeeting Podcast 2007-11-15 13:34:06 DigitalMeeting’s up to the minute Newslink, Events and announcements. Keeping you up to date with the innovations in New Digital media, bringing new fresh and exiting audio visual broadcasts direct to our customers present and future. www.digitalmeeting.co.uk Powered by technilink Read more:Podcast
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