We're Doing What Now?

Cyber Hygiene  Kristen Stewart University of Findlay The Cloud.  Lately it is everywhere. My company has started to unroll various "cloud" upgrades. We access our programs from online and have access to programs other departments use, all in one singular location. It has made cross-department discussions a lot easier because not everyone looks at you blankly, having no idea what program you're referring. I might not use it, but hey I have seen it on the homepage, so talk to me.  Something happened at work a few weeks ago, and I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it, until I started reading about the Cloud in our textbook, Using MIS (Kroenke, Boyle 2016).  Not only have I learned more about what my own company is doing, I have learned that I need to practice better cyber hygiene.  Yes, cyber hygiene. It is a thing. A big thing.  A mass email shoots out from corporate 2 weeks ago and all hell broke loose. We were attacked w...

Trying new things can be exhausting. When I am forced to try them, I tend to whine instead of learn. The forceful change usually doesn't happen in our comfortable bubbles at home and our social life. The stretching and innovation is forced on us by work and, occasionally, our social media outlets (who didn't hate the "new" Facebook at first?)  Or school.  A new class begins online and the tried and true, Blackboard, is not being used. Instead, we must learn to use Sharepoint. My initial reaction was not positive. Like I said, I like to whine in these situations. I would put off logging on to the site because I was scared. I didn't (still completely don't) know how to use the site. And I got anxious navigating through it. Anxious I was going to do something so "techy" stupid that everyone in class would soon know I was lost. (It reminds me of when the new Facebook feature started the thread of ALL my photos on the top of my news feed and I frea...