Blog Policy Tempate Released

Park City, UT - Janco Associates, Inc. announced the release of its Blog and Personal Web Site Policy. Victor Janulaitis the CEO of Janco said, “In a recent AMA survey it was found that only 9 percent have policies governing personal blogging on company time, 7 percent have policies on business blogging and appropriate content, and even fewer (3 percent) retain blog content.” He added, “The risks faced by enterprises of all sizes include copyright infringement, sexual harassment and trade secret theft - not to mention the drain on employee productivity.”

The Blog and Personal Web Site Template includes a detailed Policy statement with specific guidelines for blog and web site participation, security standards, and Blog Policy Compliance Agreement form which all employee's, contractors, sub-contractors and affiliates should complete. This template can be purchased on its own and is included it the IT Service Management Template.

IT Service Management (ITSM) is defined as part of a rapidly accepted standard of best practices known as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). The IT Service Management template joins the IT Productivity Center's CIO and IT Productivity series of tools and templates which include their popular Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Resource Kit and Disaster Recovery Plan Template. The ITSM update can be found at http://www.e-janco.com/itsm.htm

Janulaitis said "IT infrastructure productivity is the core of our firm's practice. We have created a set of tools to improve the productivity and quality of service provided by the IT function. With the IT Service Management Template and our Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Resource Kit enterprises of all sizes can quickly implement best practices." In addition he said. "… the IT Service Management template is now included in the CIO Productivity Bundle." The CIO Productivity Bundle, which is Sarbanes-Oxley compliant, can be found at http://www.e-janco.com/offer_cio.htm.

The IT Service Management Template contains policies, standards, procedures and metrics for Change Control, Help Desk and Service Request processing. The ITSM Template also contains the IT Productivity Center's Business and IT Impact Questionnaire, a Change Control Request Form and an Internet Use Approval Form. The template comes as a word document which can be used as a template to create customized procedures for any size enterprise.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Resource Kit (http://www.e-janco.com/SOX.htm) which was released in January now has a Platinum Edition which contains the IT Service Management Template.

Janco also announced the activation of its new promotional web site www.cto-toolkits.com. The site provides special offers for productivity tools for the Chief Technology Officer.