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- Second Life: the Second Coming for Project Failure?
- Recently, I wrote about Second Life's lack of usefulness in business. Since then, Craig Cmehil described how SAP uses Second Life, which has opened my thinking on the entire subject of virtual worlds. Now, I've come across a Second Life application that's relevant to avoiding IT project failures.MIT Researcher, Drew...
- Tags: Tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Data Visualization for Project Failures
- The Information Aesthetics blog presents a nice way for visualizing certain kinds of data. As you can see from the image below, the chart displays three kinds of data simultaneously: X-axis data, such as time series Y-axis data, such as a set of scores Size data, governing magnitude for the data being representedIn...
- Tags: Tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Project Management Dashboard
- I love user interfaces that communicate complex information clearly.The Dashboard Spy seeks out enterprise dashboards and showcases them on his very excellent blog. Dashboard Spy recently showed a screen that lets users quickly determine status across a project portfolio, using color as the main visual identifier. Here is this clever...
- Tags: Tools, Project management
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- BloggerCon: Tools for new media mavens
- Phil Torrone, senior editor at Make, led the first discussion at BloggerCon IV this morning, focused mostly on tools for blogging and podcasting. Here is the Docnography (Doc Searls is live note taking as the discussion flows) of the Tools discussion. Quote of the session: "No one knows what a...
- Tags: tool, Tools
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- In an Emergency...
- The Dashboard Spy offers a post describing emergency management information software. I researched these issues in-depth several years ago (conducted lots of interviews with government and industry leaders), to learn about emergency management processes and software. Anyone seriously looking at project failures can learn from these systems.Mr. Spy points out...
- Tags: Tools
- Blog posts 2006-04-30
Additional Resources
- Network Magic simplifies tasks for home users
- Network Magic from Pure Networks isn't a new product, but it's new to me. I've been playing around with this home-network manager for a week or so, and I think it's a great solution for those who are unfamiliar with networking. Its clean design and easy-to-understand interface helps you perform...
- Tags: Network, Network Magic, Network Map, Network Advisor, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle
- This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- A brief summary
- A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also (essentially) the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Troubleshoot and resolve Windows Vista problems
- Tracking down the cause of problems with Windows Vista requires systematic troubleshooting, but at least you can take advantage of some new diagnostic tools. This sample chapter from Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed, 2nd Edition describes these tools (the Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure) and then looks at how to get your system...
- Tags: Sams Publishing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2008-05-09
- ICS Free Financial Toolbar (exe)
- The ICS Free Financial Toolbar puts financial search, stock quotes, charts, SEC filings, stock news, and financial audio commentary at your fingertips! It installs in Microsoft Internet Explorer in seconds and includes a free popup blocker, Google and Yahoo Search engines. You'll have instant access to the finest charts and...
- Tags: Financial, Stock, Ice Cold Stocks, ICS Free Financial Toolbar, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- TomTom One 130S
- The TomTom One 130 and TomTom One 130S mark a new beginning for the company's line of basic GPS. You still get TomTom's hallmark ease of use and community features, but the portable navigation systems now boast more compact designs as well as a new vehicle mount that can be...
- Tags: GPS, Keyboards, TomTom
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- Seeking the iPhone in Adobe's annual analyst briefings
- Even if you're not an analyst, Adobe's 2008 financial briefings available online make interesting viewing, from its showcase of new AIR tools to the "soul" of Adobe, Google and Microsoft. And then there's the iPhone. The recordings cover the morning and afternoon sessions...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- HP Officejet J6480
- The Officejet J6480 is Hewlett-Packard's newest all-in-one printer with a host of features designed to appeal to small-to-midsize businesses that want a low-cost, feature-rich device capable of handling projects across the board. This $200 multifunction printer certainly delivers everything you want in an AIO: Autoduplexing, photo finishing, one-touch faxing, a...
- Tags: Printers, Fax, Officejet J6480, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking
- With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now was as good a time as ever to cover KinetiCast, a company in the online presentation space that I chatted with a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that mkes KenitCast unique is that they very...
- Tags: Presentation, Presentation Creator, Productivity, AJAX, Web 2.0, Microsoft Office, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthlessSomething is worth exactllywhat someone else is willing to pay for it.Couldn't be because they stink?Their revenue shortfall and lack of growth could just as likely be traced to their notorious right wing bias. As the neocons fall...
- Tags: MySpace, social media, advertiser, social networking, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
- Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Virtualization discussion with Oracle
- I recently had a chance to chat with Oracle's vice president of Linux engineering, Wim Coekaerts, and senior director of product marketing, Monica Kumar, about Oracles virtualization efforts and a bit about the philosophy behind the company's efforts. In summary, Oracle sees virtualization technology as just another tool organizations can...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Argile (exe)
- Retouching, modeling, painting, directing and rendering, Argile is a complete 3D artist workshop that will make you forget the technical constraints, the unclear user interfaces and other fuzzy tools. Import your 3D objects and characters to sculpt and retouch them in details. Play with the brushes of the real time...
- Tags: 3D, Tool, N-Sided, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
- Database Schema Designer (exe)
- Database Schema Designer's intuitive user interface has been crafted to provide the most natural methods for creating, maintaining, and organizing your database components. Database Schema Designer has several key features and tools built in to provide fast, accurate, and consistent Database Modeling. DBSD offers a simple and intuitive user interface....
- Tags: eGlop, Database Schema Designer, DBSD, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
- MAXA Text2EXE (exe)
- MAXA Text-2-EXE allows you to save text encrypted as executable file. It looks like a normal text editor but can save your text encrypted in the executable itself. If you want to secretly distribute the text, you only have to send the file and the recipient will be able to...
- Tags: Phone, Password, Text, MAXA Research, MAXA Text-2-EXE, SecureEdit, Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
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