Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- In IL patronage scandal, guv's office tries to suppress emails
- Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who campaigned on an anti-corruption platform, is in the middle of a political maelstrom over accusations that his employees manipulated who gets state jobs - in violation of a Supreme Court ruling. ZDNet previously reported that the administration rolled out a Web-based employment system aimed at stopping...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, applicant, e-mail, Michael Casey
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Potential employers lurk on MySpace, Facebook
- With the explosive popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace comes the risk of a future employer finding out what a job applicant does in his or her spare time. More and more employers are using these sites, along with Google and Yahoo to screen potential applicants,...
- Tags: social networking site, applicant, Facebook, MySpace, social networking, networking
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
Additional Resources
- UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
- The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...
- Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Second Life appoints new CEO with "rare and unusual passion for Second Life"
- Linden Lab, the makers of virtual world Second Life, have announced the appointment of a new CEO. Mark Kingdon, whose current post is CEO of online creative/marketing agency Organic of dot com bubble fame, will take over from former CEO and current chairman Philip Rosedale as of May 15th to...
- Tags: Second Life, Leadership, Branding, Management, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- PowerPay statement on Psystar
- I received the following statement from Steven Goodrich, CEO and president of PowerPay, Psystar's former credit card processor: Psystar applied to PowerPay for a merchant account, which is vernacular for an account that allows businesses to accept credit cards for products/services. It might not be...
- Tags: Credit Card, Merchant, PowerPay, Psystar, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales Strategy, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollars
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollarsLet them playBeing "fair" is much more difficult to achieve than most everything else. First off, only P-types think in terms of fairness (whilst J-types think in terms of morals (right/wrong,black/white)). Most management types are J-types - because of their aptitude to organizing....
- Tags: Strategy, J-type, P-type
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML winLong live the Microsoft Zimbabwe standardIn recognition of ISO adoption of IS 29500 it will hence forth be formally known ans the Zimbabwe stand.Microsoft vote riggers sorry I mean keen standards followers were quoted as saying "we learnt all about ballot...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Sanity, Microsoft Corp., OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- The Make it Your Own Awards
- The Case Foundation has sponsored an initiative to bring often fractured communities together around a project or set of projects, calling it the "Make it Your Own Awards." From an applicant pool of nearly 5000, they have chosen 20 outstanding projects and left the voting on the top 4...
- Tags: Project, Community, Case Foundation, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Personal information of Harvard grad students compromised
- Harvard's graduate school of arts and sciences said that roughly 10,000 individuals may have had their personal information compromised by a security breach. The intrusion was discovered in February, according to a Harvard statement released Wednesday. Of the 10,000 affected, 6,600 got a year's worth of free...
- Tags: Personal Information, Social Security Number, Harvard, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Security, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent app
- BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent appHybrid Blackberry Patent App not newsAside from the trackball, hasn't this been done already?RE: BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent appDid anyone notice the date this was originally filed - August 28, 2006??It appears this was only Published recently, but...
- Tags: Keyboards, patent, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., new Patent app, Patent App, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spat
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spatRare winStill leads me to be that MS support for software patents is misguided, though, even in terms of MS' own interests.Patenting software seems strange...Software patents seem strange because a developer can come up with hundreds of ways under the hood to make a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PATENT Process, Patenting software, patent, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Interviewing in SecondLife
- Interviewing in SecondLifeVRWorkplaceI am an attorney, HR Consultant, former IT outsourcing executive and now a virtual worlds entrepreneur. I advise companies on using virtual worlds technology to bring people together as if in person, despite geography. Consider a term I coined, the "global hallway." We know that...
- Tags: virtual world, avatar, SecondLife
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- CPS Profiler (zip)
- Pre-employment personality profiling software for employers, recruiters, HR professionals and team builders. The CPS PROFILER is a computer based method of obtaining a personality profile of a job applicant. The candidate does not need to be present at the analysis and does not need to know that the analysis is...
- Tags: Job, Team, Analysis, CPS PROFILER, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-05
- What if you lose your job?
- What if you lose your job?The thing is, with open source, you can get a job with a different company,or do consulting, based on the same project. You will be valuable, as you know the code, and can get in and add features, hooks, etc. With a proprietary project, that...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, open source, OSS, What-If
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Four questions for the week ahead in security
- Here's what I'm pondering for the week ahead. 1. When are those Mac patches coming? We have Macworld next week and while everyone is looking at those cool ultra portable notebooks don't be surprised if Apple launches a software update. With any luck Apple can address the latest QuickTime...
- Tags: Card, Oracle Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Fraud, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Government supplies SSNs to identity thefts
- Government supplies SSNs to identity theftsThe problem isthat the SSN was never intended to serve any kind of identification role whatsoever. But as the nannystate grew, the government began to require it on more and more pieces of paper until it has become a de facto national ID card.RE: Government...
- Tags: SSN, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- What does Microsoft's IPTV reorg have to do with 'Fiji'?
- I've been thinking about Microsoft's quiet reorg, via which the company unified the IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD initiatives into a single organization, known as the Microsoft Connected TV business group. Just munging these three teams together doesn't necessarily mean a cohesive set of Microsoft TV...
- Tags: Media Center PC, IP Television, Microsoft Corp., Fiji, Media Center PCs, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- Mipsis Recruitment Management Software (exe)
- Recruiting, applicant tracking software program for human resource HR departments, staffing agencies, and personnel recruiting and placement agencies. Mipsis "Recruiting Manager" software program helps corporate recruiters keep track of and select the most qualified job candidates rapidly, efficiently, electronically. "Recruiting Manager" software and electronic applicant tracking system supports complete job...
- Tags: Software, Job, Recruiting, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- Strike another blow to Education IT
- Strike another blow to Education ITAnd...What's the likelihood of a veto override? That can happen can't it?RE: Strike another blow to Education ITMr. Wagner, You are absolutely right. We need to shift our focus and soon. American's are falling behind other nations fast in the education sector, and our students...
- Tags: Government, Benefits, Education IT, Ed IT, salary
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Halloween XII: What's really behind those Microsoft licenses?
- Last night I stayed up late to watch a scary movie called The Grudge. It's a remake of a Japanese film, set in Japan, with English actors including Sarah Michelle Geller. It's not gory but it sure gave me the creeps. Tonight after all the trick-or-treating is done and the...
- Tags: License, Microsoft Corp., Ms-RL, Nelson, Corporate Governance, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
Designed specifically to address the concerns of senior IT managers at organizations with more than 100 employees, the Intel Premier IT Professional Program provides best practices via local and e-Seminars and a members-only Web site.
The Cisco Mobility Resource Center offers FREE videos, downloads, podcasts and more, all designed to help small and medium businesses get mobile connectivity solutions, improve productivity and drive sales and revenue.
