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Data Processing For Efficient And Effective Mailing Services By: mailmbs

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One of the most important services required in mailing services is data processing. Mailway Services provides a range of versatile data processing services that include computer analysis, National Change of Address (NCOA,) postal presorting automation, CR discounts, drop shipments, live mail data tracking, and intelligent barcode.

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For the last thirty years, Mailway Services, based in Monsey, New York, has been providing integrated and comprehensive mailing services. The company offers a complete service package that includes concept, design, web, sheet, and envelope printing. Small business and organizations scattered around USA and other countries make use of efficient and effective mailing services provided by Mailway Services to improve their businesses.

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Update on 6/28 – I did a Thirsty Developer interview with Doc List, about Open Spaces and the unmeeting that we held.  Check out the Episode Page or Listen to the show.  I also made a minor change to the text below (moved one of the titles down a paragraph).

I think pretty much everyone has heard of the concept of the Open Spaces (or its close cousin the unconference) Open Spaces are:

A facilitated participant-driven face-to-face conference around a theme or purpose. (according to the unconference blog) 

Recently some of my teammates gathered together to talk about planning our direction for the next year (the Microsoft fiscal year runs from July to June).  We had a day together and a lot of items to cover, as you can imagine planning the direction for a large team for a full year will give you a lot to talk about. 

I got the task of putting together the agenda, which is a tough when you have limited time and lots of material.  Brian Prince, my friend and colleague from Ohio, put out the suggestion that we should try to apply the Open Spaces Technology to our planning meeting.  Our boss, Brian Moore, is always willing to let us try things that are unconventional (with a few caveats that I will mention later).  So eight of us set about having a meeting that used some of the Open Spaces principals or what I am dubbing an unmeeting.

Applying the Open Spaces Principles

With open spaces, there are 4 principles that guide the event.  They are very Zen like, which is why you generally have a professional facilitator to help guide you through the application of the principles.  The principles are:

1. Whoever comes is the right people
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
3. Whenever it starts is the right time
4. When it’s over, it’s over

I got to serve in the role of facilitator for our “unmeeting”.  We did a number of things to apply the Zen like principles.  Our plan was to have 6 attendees at the event, but we discovered that we needed more “right people” there.  So we recruited a couple more people (including one that we picked up at a happy hour the night before).

The majority of our agenda was driven by a combination voting / consensus process (we used post in notes on the whiteboard with tick marks).  We also modified the conversation throughout the day, which was important because there were a couple of topics that did not fit into nice hour long segments.  And of course was not problem with everyone knowing that the meeting was over, after a long day of planning, it was obvious it was over. 

In addition to the 4 principles of Open Spaces, there is one law…..

Another key difference between the unmeeting that we held and the traditional Open Spaces is that the “Law of two feet” was somewhat modified for our purposes.  The law of two feet can be summed up as:

If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet. Go to some other place where you may learn and contribute.

No voting with your feet at our unmeeting

The law of two feet is great when you have choices of the activities to participate in; many Open Spaces events will have multiple sessions going on at the same time.  If you are not getting something out of your current session, it is great to be able to leave without you or the other people feeling awkward.

Our unmeeting did not have breakouts, so the only option was to leave the room for a while (which we encouraged if you needed a mental or physical break) or to lose focus on the proceedings by getting lost in your e-mail.  We tried to discourage non-topical use of your laptop during our proceedings (I as the facilitator used some creative techniques as you can see from the photo).  This was somewhat a violation of the law of two feet, but part of this was driven by our culture as a company. 

Most of you have probably never been to an internal Microsoft meeting (unless you work there).  The great majority of the meeting has the Microsoft folks all affixed to their laptop screens dealing with the avalanche of e-mail we get on a daily basis (we try to behave ourselves better when we are at a meeting with customers and partners).

The boss is still the boss

One of the things that was different about our unmeeting was that it was commissioned by our boss and he did have a specific set of outcomes that he needed to accomplish at the conclusion of the meeting.  As a result, he did dictate that we cover a few agenda items. 

If it was a true Open Spaces, the participants could have chosen to ignore topics that they did not want to cover, but this was an unmeeting.  We accommodated the “mandatory” sessions by putting them on a different colored sticky from the other topics during the voting/consensus process.  The participants still got to choose when in the agenda that we covered the mandatory sessions, but we had to work them into the day.  Other than that, our boss did not really rule the meeting with an iron fist (despite the picture).  He did serve in the role of the “expert” as we would have questions about the outcomes that we were trying to accomplish.

Overall I think we had a positive experience applying the Open Spaces Technology to an internal meeting.  I would encourage considering how you could apply the principles and law at your work.

Don’t limit your PC to running bread and butter tasks as it’s not too dissimilar from buying a Ferrari and driving it to the corner shop.

1. Make cash with live PC support

You may be used to helping people solve their PC problems, so why not use your knowledge to earn a little extra cash? You’ll need a website with FTP access and MySQL support. Install LiveZilla to add live chat, where site visitors can click a button to open a chat window on your PC. Then sign up at PayPal, go to the Merchant Services tab and create a ‘Buy Now’ button with your charges. Integrate this with the LiveZilla button and people will only be able to chat if they pay first.

2. Create your own wireless hotspot

Sharing your broadband is easy thanks to a little-known Windows 7 feature called Virtual Wi-Fi. It turns your internet connection into a software-based wireless router. Once set up, any nearby friend with a laptop, iPod Touch or other Wi-Fi-enabled device will be able to see your system, connect to it and access the internet.

It’s an impressive feature, but there’s a problem – you need compatible drivers for your wireless device, and right now they’re hard to find. Check with your manufacturer to see what’s available. Or, if you know your chipset, take a look at the small print for Intel’s latest 32-bit and 64-bit drivers to see what might work for you.

If you’re in luck and you find a driver that supports virtual Wi-Fi, you should be able to start your hotspot manually. Click Start, type cmd, right-click ‘cmd.exe’ and select ‘Run As Administrator’. Then enter the command netsh wlan set hostednetworkmode=allow ssid=private key=passphrase, replacing ‘private’ and ‘passphrase’ with your own choices, and making sure that the passphrase is easy to remember yet impossible for anybody else to guess.

Activating the hotspot

Next, enter the command netsh wlan start hostednetwork to fire up your hotspot. Finally, click ‘Control Panel | Network and Internet | Network and Sharing Centre | Change Adaptor Settings’, right-click your internet connection and select ‘Properties’. Click the Sharing tab, check the ‘Allow other network users to connect…’ box and choose your virtual Wi-Fi adaptor. Anyone nearby should now be able to see the virtual router you’ve just detected and connect to it once they’ve entered your passphrase.

Virtual Wi-Fi encrypts your new hotspot with WPA2 for the best possible security.

Too much like hard work? You could create a batch file to run the netsh commands, but there’s an even simpler alternative: install Virtual Router and the entire set-up process will be automated for you.

3. Read the classics

When you’re stuck for some reading material and don’t want to pay to download ebooks to your reader, why not settle down with one of those classics you’ve always meant to read? You can do so for free at the Project Gutenberg.

If you already know the surname of the author of the book you’re interested in, simply enter it into the ‘Author’ input box at the top left of the main page and hit [Enter] to see the list of works included in the archive. You can also click the ‘Browse Catalogue’ link to select an author or title by its initial letter.

If you don’t know what to read, click the ‘Bookshelf’ link to sort the archive by subject. Click ona bookshelf to access several sub-bookshelves and fi nally the books themselves. Now click on a book to download it.

4. Control your apps with mouse gestures

Mouse gestures are productivity-
boosting shortcuts. Instead of clicking a button or using the keyboard, just hold down a mouse button and move the cursor in a certain way to get the job done. Your apps don’t support them? Not a problem: install StrokeIt and it’ll give you time-saving gestures for the desktop (minimise or restore all windows), Media Player (zoom, play, stop), Explorer (back, forward) and more.

Other gestures work just about everywhere – for instance, drawing a U-shape with the mouse sends an Undo command to the foreground application, whatever it is. And if you can’t find a gesture for the action you’re after anywhere, simply click ‘File | New Action’ and create it for yourself.

5. Remote control your PC via Twitter

Twitter can be useful. No, really. Install TweetMyPC and you’ll be able to lock, shut down or reboot your PC, download a file, send a file on your PC to a Gmail address and more just by tweeting.

First, create a Twitter account. Turn off public access to this so that people can’t see what you’re doing (click ‘Settings | Account’ and then check the ‘Protect my tweets’ box). Don’t follow anyone on this account.

Next, download TweetMyPC, enter your log-in details and click ‘Save And Close’. To see if it works, type a tweet like Screenshot. All being well, TweetMyPC will take a screenshot of your PC, post it online and send a link to your Gmail address.

6. Share a mouse and keyboard

Synergy is far better than using a KVM switch. It enables you to control multiple PCs with one keyboard and mouse – even if they’re running different operating systems. First, decide which machine to use as the controller and download Synergy to it. The others will be clients. In the app, click ‘Share this computer’s keyboard and mouse’ and then select ‘Configure’. Now add each PC and that’s pretty much it, bar setting up rules for screen size scaling. When you’re done with the dominant PC, install Synergy on the others, select ‘Use another computer’s shared keyboard and mouse’ and enter the hostname of your main PC.

7. Make a Wi-Fi CCTV system

With the right software, your PC could become a powerful home security system, monitoring several areas simultaneously and alerting you at the first sign of any intruders. All you need is a collection of webcams and some know-how.

Vuse Active Webcam to create a CCTV system for your home.

Firstly, install the trial version of Active WebCam. It displays a ‘Trial version’ logo but won’t time out, so it’s good enough for us. Launch the program, set up a camera and select ‘Settings | Motion Detection’. Make sure motion detection is turned on, with the sensitivity you need it to be (turn it down if there’s a pet wandering around to reduce the chance of accidental alerts) and tell the program to alert you via email should it detect something.

Now click ‘File | New Camera’ to add each new camera, using the Motion tab to define how it’s treated. That’s just about it. Test Active WebCam by sending someone into each area and confirming that you’re notified, then just leave the program to watch over your home.

8. Change the world

Distributed computing is a way of combining the spare computing power of numerous PCs to help analyse complex scientific data, allowing scientists to speed up their research. This method is famously used by SETI, who exploit it to analyse the skies for signs of extra-terrestrial life, but there are many other projects that could use your computer’s help.

Your spare runtime can be funnelled off to help people who are really trying to make a difference – and all you need to do is download a small program onto your PC. Forget searching for little green men: distributed computing projects cover everything from modelling drugs in the fight against AIDS to monitoring climate change, researching different ways to end our reliance on fossil fuels and probing the limits of our knowledge about the universe.

Lending a hand

World Community Grid has a list of projects that you can join. Among their number are those trying to model drugs to fight muscular dystrophy and various forms of cancer. There are also groups discovering new drugs by studying how proteins fold, and even people trying to find ways to make eco-friendly fuels and more productive rice strains to feed the world more efficiently.

Change the world the easy way by adding your PC to distributed computing projects like this one trying to find new treatments for AIDS.

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) also has a list of groups who want your help to push back the boundaries of research. It includes projects trying to model climate change, attempting to stop the spread of malaria and trying to create artificial intelligence by reverse engineering the brain. If you fancy looking out into the cosmos you can even get involved with tracking asteroids that could harm the Earth or trying to detect gravitational waves.

9. Access your to-do list anywhere

Although there are many online tools out there offering to-do lists and reminder services, Remember The Milk stands out because of the number of sites and services that you can add it to – making checking your to-do list easy no matter what you’re doing. You can receive Remember The Milk reminders via email, SMS and various instant messenger services, and you can add them to (and even edit them from) your Google calendar. You can even add a Remember The Milk to-do list to the right-hand side of your Gmail homepage, giving you a visual reminder of what you need to do next each time that you sign in to check your email.

10. Get classic movies free

Many films from the golden age of cinema have fallen out of copyright. This means that it’s now legal to download and watch many films and short features in your home. To make sure that you stay on the right side of the law, however, it’s best to download them from a legal cinema archive.

One such archive is Public Domain Torrents, which provides content as torrents. You’ll have to install a torrent client such as Vuze to download the files, but once done you’ll have access to a large number of classics including Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and some surprisingly good forgotten gems.