[ZendTo] Re: How do you market ZendTo service to your internal staff?

Tony D'Amato tdamato at odu.edu
Fri Jan 13 20:22:15 GMT 2012


We use 'lfs.domain.com' - lfs = Large File System, as opposed to email 
which is Small File System (^_^)
--
Tony D'Amato, SCSA
Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
Server Support Group
Office of Computing and Communications Services
Old Dominion University


Marlon R Deerr wrote:
>
> files.domain.com makes sense (even simpler that fileshare.domain.com).
>
> What about how you promote this services to your users.  Do you 
> actually say you are running ZendTo or would you let your users know 
> that you are now running a new "file sharing service" for your company 
> etc...
>
> I guess I'm curious as to how everyone else is actually branding this 
> service.
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On 
> Behalf Of *Joshua F. Withrow
> *Sent:* January-13-12 1:50 PM
> *To:* zendto at zend.to
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: How do you market ZendTo service to your 
> internal staff?
>
> We use files.Domain.Com
>
> /Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless/
>
>
>
> -----Original message-----
>
> *From: *Brian Ott <Brian.Ott at oicr.on.ca <mailto:Brian.Ott at oicr.on.ca>>*
> To: *ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>>*
> Sent: *Fri, Jan 13, 2012 15:38:48 GMT+00:00*
> Subject: *[ZendTo] Re: How do you market ZendTo service to your 
> internal staff?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0500, Marlon R Deerr wrote:
> >    I'm curious what most people are using for their public DNS name 
> for your
> >    ZendTo service and how you actually market/promote this service to 
> your
> >    employees. Are you using zendto.yourdomain.com for your service.  
> Do you
> >    employees know you are using ZendTo or are you marketing this as 
> some sort
> >    of file sharing services (i.e. fileshare.yourdomain.com).  The 
> reason I
> >    ask is because I always like to keep things simple for my end 
> users.  I am
> >    pretty sure they will remember something like fileshare.mydomain.com
> >    easier than zendto.mydomain.com.
> >
> Hey,
>
> I agree with keeping things simple so we named it by service not
> software. This also allows us to change software in the future (not
> saying we will change from zendto). Also it won't confuse users not so
> tech-savvy, they may forget that 'zendto' is to share files. However
> you can't really forget fileshare.domain is to share files.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Cheers,
>
> >
> >
> >    I'm curious to see what others are doing out there.
> >
> >
>
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>
> -- 
> Brian Ott
> Unix System Administrator
>
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