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Conflict Resolution and the Project Manager

Project managers deal with conflict. If you are a project manager, and you have not yet experienced conflict in your project, don't be overly concerned - you will soon enough. At some point in your career, you will be called upon to resolve some type of conflict. At times this...

Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Conflict Resolution, Project Manager, Communication Skills, Professional Development, Productivity, Career

White papers 2008-04-25

Jon gets his Face(book) back

Remember Jon Swift's problem with Facebook? I just received a personal email from Jon Swift where he shared the following email: Hi Jon, Upon further review, we have decided to reactivate your account. Our Terms of Use, to which all users agree when they first sign up for...

Tags: Facebook, Cheer, Jon, Communication Skills, E-mail, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Career, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-11-01

PocketMirror Standard (Palm/Outlook Sync) (exe)

PocketMirror Standard is designed exclusively to synchronize Microsoft Outlook Calendar, Contacts, Task and Note items with the built in Palm and Palm OS PIM applications. Now supports Microsoft Outlook 2007. Key Features of PocketMirror Standard Include: simple, convenient, and Reliable Synchronization Free, friendly, knowledgeable and responsive Technical Support. No outsourcing...

Tags: Folder, Palm Inc., Chapura Inc., PocketMirror Standard, Microsoft Outlook, Communication Skills, Palm OS, Outsourcing, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Career, Operating Systems, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2007-05-18

Round Robin Scheduler (zip)

The Round Robin Scheduler has been designed to help you quickly create round-robin schedules for your sports organization. Some of the features include multi-division scheduling, prioritized field usage, prioritized day and time usage, field sharing, automatic schedule generation, standings support, sophisticated conflict resolution for rescheduling games, contact and sponsor management,...

Tags: Usage, Round Robin Scheduler, Communication Skills, Games, Career, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-10-07

Team Sports Scheduling System (zip)

The Team Sports Scheduling System has been designed to help you quickly create league schedules for your sport organization. With it you can create tournament, round-robin, official, and practice schedules for nearly any sport. Some of the features include multi-division scheduling, prioritized field usage, prioritized day and time usage, field...

Tags: Team, Usage, Sport, Team Sports Scheduling System, Communication Skills, Team Management, Career, Management

Software downloads 2005-10-07

Effective People Skills for the Project Manager: A Requirement for Project Success and Career Advancement

Projects are always technical problems with significant human dimensions. As projects increase in complexity (virtual teams, involving cross cultural variables and the need to achieve more with less), increasing emphasis is being placed upon the need for the technical professional to develop competencies in specific, tangible "People skills." Importantly, people...

Tags: Career Advancement, People Skill, Professional Development, Communication Skills, Career

White papers 2004-04-14

Efficient Implementation of Java Interfaces: Invokeinterface Considered Harmless

Single superclass inheritance enables simple and efficient table-driven virtual method dispatch. However, virtual method table dispatch does not handle multiple inheritance and interfaces. This complication has led to a widespread misimpression that interface method dispatch is inherently inefficient. This paper argues that with proper implementation techniques, Java interfaces need not...

Tags: Method, Communication Skills, Programming Languages, Java, Productivity, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Has IT public relations arrived?

Has IT public relations arrived?Oh my....This is quite disturbing...Is there are other discipline where hiring someone with the official purpose of saying good things about you would be considered reasonable enough to even mention?That being said, I think many projects could use a PR team. Large enterprises create communication...

Tags: IT public relation, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Dell repair adventure, day 4

Dell repair adventure, day 4Litigation"The expectation is that a person will arrive on site the next day having 1) the skills to diagnose and repair the problem, 2) the parts necessary to repair problem and 3) the tools necessary to do the work."1. Litigate: misleading advertising.2. Where is ZDNET's legal...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Fourth quarter IT hiring outlook: The helpdesk is hot

Eleven percent of CIOs plan to add IT workers in the fourth quarter, 3 percent plan cuts and help desk and technical support are the hot categories as customer and user support trumps projects focused on growth. Those are a few of the notable takeaways in an...

Tags: Hiring, CIO, Information Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Help Desk, Call Centers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Dell repair adventure, day 4, with updates

Here's today's update in the continuing saga of our hero's attempt to get his Dell laptop back up and running after it died an ignominious death while he was on the road last week. For those who haven't been following his adventures, posts Dell adventure begins again, day 1 and...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Can Google not do evil?

Can Google not do evil?So happy"We are so, so happy with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. "That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on this statement." - http://notnews.today.com/?p=57RE: Can Google not do evil?Your vision of Microsoft being the dark side and...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Free trade, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Where are my class lists?

Where are my class lists?Madness i tell ya. People dont get it.. old people especiallyALOT of people here still print out EMAILS! THEY PRINT OUT EMAILS! i about fell over the first time i saw it happen. I then questioned the user who said she could...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, class list, SiS

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Hollow Ground (exe)

Hollow Ground is a 3rd-person shooter that emphasizes action, observation and tactical skills. The gameplay is old-school but the graphics are fully revamped to take advantage of modern hardware. One or two players guide four mercenaries through the grimy ruins of a post-apocalyptic bunker through traps and boss monsters to...

Tags: Blackwight, Gameplay

Software downloads 2008-09-02

GXSerial (msi)

GXSerial offers an easy way to build multithreaded, serial communication applications. GXSerial is made on the Windows API interface, is very efficient and does not require external libraries or DLL files to operate. Can control any serial device connected to serial port. The component is easy to use with different...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Gurux, GXSerial, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-01

GXGPRS (msi)

GXGPRS offers an easy way to build multithreaded, GPRS communication applications. GXGPRS is made on the Windows API interface, is very efficient and does not require external libraries or DLL files to operate. The component is easy to use with different development tools (such as Access, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java,...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Gurux, GXGPRS, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-01

GXNet (msi)

GXNet offers an easy way to build multithreaded, Internet communication applications. GXNet is made on the Windows API interface, is very efficient and does not require external libraries or DLL files to operate. The component is easy to use with different development tools (such as Access, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java,...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Gurux, GXNet, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-01

GXSNMP (msi)

GXSNMP offers an easy way to build multithreaded, SNMP communication applications. GXSNMP is made on the Windows API interface, is very efficient and does not require external libraries or DLL files to operate. The component is easy to use with different development tools (such as Access, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java,...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Gurux, GXSNMP, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-01