Blog Policy , IT Service Management, and Disaster Planning Templates

Blog Template

With the advent of blogs, there is a need to set rules of the road for the use of blogs by employees, contractors, agents, supplies and others. This sample blog policy template contains specific policy statements on what can and can not be done via blogs. There are 13 specific guidelines defined as specific guidelines for personal web sites and blogs which are on your enterprise's domains and those on are on domains outside of your enterprise's control..

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

Disaster Planning template can used for any enterprise. The template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. The Disaster Planning Template comes as a Word document and includes:

Disaster Recovery Plan Template
Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
Work Plan

IT Service Management Policy Template (ITISM / ITIL)

The IT Service Management Policy Template contains policies, standards, procedures and metrics that comply with the ITIL Standard. Chapters of the template include:

Service Requests Policy

Service Request Standard

Help Desk Policy

Help Desk Standards

Help Desk Procedures

Help Desk Service Level Agreement

Change Control Standard

Change Control Quality Assurance Standard

Change Control Management Workbook

Documentation Standard

Application Version Control Standard

Version Control Standard

Internet, e-Mail and Electronic Communication Policy

Travel and Off-Site Meeting

Blogs and personal web sites

In addition, the ITSM template includes the Business and IT Impact Questionnaire, a Change Control Request Form and an Internet Use Approval Form. It conforms with ITIL.

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There is No Bandwidth Crisis

There is no bandwidth crisis. At our highest usage, we are using less than 50% of the available bandwidth worldwide. WORLDWIDE.

So why is it we need usage caps in the first place? Presumably, according to the telcos and cable companies, we are quickly using up available bandwidth and when it's gone it's gone. That's what they are telling us.

But even at the current growth rate, we won't use up the world's available bandwidth for many years. And simple infrastructure upgrades will continue to make more bandwidth available over time, always keeping us well ahead of the game.

I wish there was a way to call the telcos and cable companies on their blatent lying about bandwidth capability, and the fact that they are using that argument to apply caps to people's usage. Boycotts are all well and good but sometimes you don't have any choice in provider and have to take what is handed to you. How do we communicate to the telcos and cable companies, call their bluff, and make them change their tune and being to serve the customer?

And, I'm still looking for a bandwidth meter...if anyone knows of a good one, I need to see what kind of traffic we're using here in my house.

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Did dinosaurs die from malaria?

Science daily has an article discussing a new book, "What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous," by George and Roberta Poinar. In it they discuss the effect that insect born disease and parasites possibly had on the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Modern technigues have shown that diseases like malaria existed during the Cretaceous and were present in blood taken from parasites preserved in Amber.

I love the new information we can discover from materials that are so old, and build such complex pictures of what was essentially a completely different world. Well worth the time to read the full article. It sort of puts a damper on the Jurasic Park idea though, if there are parasitic organisms mixed up in the dino blood samples there is even less chance of sequencing dinosaur DNA than ever.

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