Cloud Presence 2-3-11

My cloud presence is actually very heavy at work, but not so much in my personal life.  At work, nearly everything I do is saved to a server "out there" somewhere, but also in a very protected area set by my employer.  I recently created a "sharepoint" site for the program that I am responsible for.  A sharepoint site is basically a place on the web to which I give people permissions to enter.  It holds information such as research items, work tools, shared documents, etc. that everyone can use and share.  I am responsible for its maintenance and its content. 

Five years ago, my employer wasn't nearly as cloud-oriented as it is now.  We were still filling out paper forms to apply for jobs, do our time sheets, make benefits changes, and for many internal communications.  It's been amazing how the technological changes have increased our productivity and improved our record-keeping ability!  But there is still much to do to get all divisions within my agency to be able to share data.

One of the improvements that is coming will take care of trying to juggle all of the passwords I have for each of the systems I use.  They've already provided us with a badge that will hold a password assigned to each particular employee in preparation of having just one password for all the systems.  I can't wait for that new feature to be in place!