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Manage Work Forces During the Labor Shortage: Recent studies warn that the U.S. economy might soon experience widespread job vacancies that can't be filled due to a shortfall of workers. Do these arguments have merit, and if so, what are the implications for HR managers? The demographic phenomenon behind these predictions is the "Baby bust" cohort, the...; Tags: Cohort, Baby, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-12-01

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How much will Microsoft's Sandcastle boo-boo hurt?: How much will Microsoft's Sandcastle boo-boo hurt?You only tell half the story[i]There remain a large cohort of programmers, partners, and simple fans who will stay with Microsoft and what it chooses to call open source no matter what.[/i]And there remains a large cohort of programmers, partners, and simple fans who...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sandcastle, foul, TripleII; Discussion threads 2008-06-09
How much will Microsoft's Sandcastle boo-boo hurt?: Microsoft admits it goofed. Posting a project under an open source license without including the code is bad form. The question is how much this might hurt Microsot. In the open source community it's already as popular as George W. Bush at an Obama rally. How much...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Iraq War gives assistive technology a permanent boost: For years assistive technology has been a minor niche. (Pictured is Jonathan Kuniholm, from his story at the Microsoft Web site. Microsoft has long been the industry leader in assistive technology.) I know. I first proposed this as an assistive technology blog, but the editors here felt...; Tags: Iraq, Technology, Gender And Diversity, Web Site Development, Blogging, Leadership, Human Resources, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-03
23andme presents its consumer strategy: It's research, and the tentative name for it is 23andwe, although the company has yet to buy a separate domain name. The phrase was first used by co-founder Linda Avey at a Bio-IT World Expo keynote earlier this month. The idea was fleshed out...; Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Survey, Marketing Research, Domain Names, Marketing, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-29

I hate eigenvectors: I'm only a couple months from wrapping up a masters degree in math. The program has been great and has catered to a cohort of educators who are all seeking to drastically improve math education in our respective schools and communities. However, every time I hear the prefix...; Tags: Google Inc., Eigenvalue, Search, Engineering, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Running naked (with hard drives): Earlier in the week my cohort here at The Apple Core, David Morgenstern, wrote about living a bare drive lifestyle where "professional Mac users often use hard disk mechanisms like floppies." Count me in that group. I keep a lot of (non-traveling) hard drives in my office, most in silver...; Tags: Hard Drive, WiebeTech LLC., Enclosure, SJ, DriveDock, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-02-29
Heart health is easy: Heart health is easyGood habits cause cancerCheck it out: as people get more heart-healthy, the cancer rates go up.Say what?Hey, we're all gonna die of [b]something[/b] -- just a matter of what gets the bid. One of the favorite health factoids is that the deaths from heart disease, stroke,...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, heart health, food; Discussion threads 2008-02-12
To nothing less than the Whole Earth: "We are as gods": Stewart Brand from his own website. Green Tech is about to observe a crucial anniversary. The first Whole Earth Catalog was published in 1968. Nearly forty years ago. Already the commemorations begin. The "New York Times" just published a book review...; Tags: Desktop, Earth, Brand, Green Technology, Tool, Wikipedia, WEC, Productivity, Government, Wiki, Desktops, Branding, Online Communications, Hardware, Marketing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-13
Leapblogging: The Salesforce.com Ecosystem Debate, Round II: Dan Farber's rebuttal to my most recent post on Salesforce.com seems to miss the main point of my blog, and instead goes into an extensive discussion about a broader comparison between the two companies than I ever intended to make. I never claimed that the two...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Partnership, Ecosystem, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Dan, Business Structures, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2007-11-30
University Automates CRM, Improves Business Productivity, Customer Relationships: Nanyang Technological University NTU is a Singapore-based university delivering science and engineering courses to more than 27,000 students. Its Centre for Continuing Education CCE links the university with its alumni and the wider community by providing continuing education courses. As a result of increasing enrolment, CCE was looking for a...; Tags: QoS, Business Productivity, University, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software; Case studies 2007-10-08
Microsoft offers second sneak peek at Office 2008 for Mac: In an post on 18 September my cohort here at The Apple Core offered a glimpse at what Microsoft is promising will be the best version of Office for the Mac ever. Well, they're at it again. The kids over at the Mac BU...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2007-10-02
Parsing search marketing, the 'content pyramid' and RSS strategies with Sam Whitmore: Read a transcript of the discussion.In my work covering enterprise application development and deployment strategies, I often find myself also witnessing a sea-change in how software providers market their values. Software has always been a challenge to market, and many of the most innovative thinking in online marketing has come...; Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, Podcasts, Internet, Enterprise 2.0; Blog posts 2007-07-11
To go online or not to go online.: Im referring here to web-enabling courses. Whether in a K-12 or university setting it is becoming increasingly easy to post course content online. Notes, homework, contact information, collaboration tools...You name it, theyre all available. These systems are not only getting cheaper many are free and open source, but...; Tags: Education Technology; Blog posts 2006-12-07
Workday begins its work day: PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and team officially unwrapped his new company Workdays strategy and first product this morning. Duffield called his companys Enterprise Business Services a new breed of on-demand ERP solutions. During the conference call, according to Aneel Bhusri, co-founder of Workday and a long time cohort of...; Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Workday, Workday Designed; Blog posts 2006-11-06
LOL: Digital social networking 101: In "MySpace - Facebook $200 billion ‘Digital Millennials’ I present new insights on “decoding” the “born at the keyboard,” “perpetually connected,” 14-24 year old demographic cohort expected to top 100 million soon and deemed to influence $200 billion in annual spending now!RU READY? For the Digital Millennials? Kelly Mooney, President...; Tags: Digital, Facebook; Blog posts 2006-10-23
MySpace - Facebook $200 billion 'Digital Millennials': RU READY? For the Digital Millennials? Kelly Mooney, President & Chief Experience Officer, Resource Interactive, wants you to know you better be.Mooney presented a first look at exclusive eight week field research her firm conducted on “Decoding the Digital Millennials” at this morning’s Shop.org keynote in New York City.Who are...; Tags: digitaL; Blog posts 2006-10-11
Teachers leave NASA program with new skills: This year's crop of K-12 students have 22 new reasons to get excited about space exploration. Twenty-two award-winning teachers have attended NASA's newly created Airspace Systems Education Cohort ASEC and will impart their newly gained scientific knowledge scientific on fields from electrical engineering to complex aeronautics, reports eSchool News. ...; Tags: teacher, NASA; Blog posts 2006-08-01
Gates funds cervical cancer shots for poor: Gates funds cervical cancer shots for poorRobin Hood Gates, take from the rich, give to the poorI do appreciate that Bill Gates has the money and time to put into finding cures for diseases etc but frankly this is much like Robin Hood, taking from the rich USA consumers and...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Bill Gates; Discussion threads 2006-06-06
Yahoo, Microsoft and Rich Internet Applications: It seems that people on the outside looking in not always the best source think that Microsoft is quickly becoming a fiasco of a company. Microsoft has delayed Vista, done a drastic reorganization of its management structure, announced it is going to spend heavily to compete with...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2006-05-03