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- Celebrating 10 years of TechRepublic
- ZDNet sister site TechRepublic is celebrating its 10th anniversary and, today, the TR family out in Louisville, Kentucky -Â the same city where the site has been based since its inception - is hosting a community event to celebrate the occasion. Editor-in-Chief Jason Hiner, who also posts...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., IT Professional, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- How to make technology conferences suck less
- How to make technology conferences suck lessNice postJoe,Thanks for sharing this information. I attended ClueCon last year and it was great- for some of the very reasons you mention. I enjoyed it so much that I'm volunteering this year to help out. I think community-organized is important. I also think...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, ClueCon, network, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- Human-Centered Business Process Management
- The paper presents a business process development method that considers human actions and skills up front and then fills in information technology functions to support them. This approach is suitable for business processes identified as "Facilitator processes", in which people inherently play parts that cannot be easily replaced by automation.
- Tags: Business Process, Fujitsu Ltd., Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Nationwide Rollout and Global Technology Deployment Internal Resources Requirements
- Nationwide rollouts and global technology deployments are complex projects that require expert management of people and technology. A project's success is as dependent on the internal resources that deploy it as the technology installed. An inexperienced Project Facilitator or overburdened Project Manager can easily become overwhelmed - which can cause...
- Tags: Concert Technologies
- White papers 2009-03-27
- Pirate Bay
- Pirate BayThe name says it allThe "business" was created to "pirate" copyrighted material. Even their website bragged about how many movies and songs you could get with their services.Not All Torrents Are IllegalAlthough you will be able to obtain many copyrighted materials on Pirate Bay, A large amount of torrents...
- Tags: Piracy, Pirate Bay
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Judy Estrin: my choice for CTO USA
- Judy Estrin: my choice for CTO USABut what does she know about government IT?The US government is a very large, bureaucratic entity composed of many different agencies, all of which manage their own computers; some of them for over 50 years. She has to understand the beast if she's...
- Tags: Judy Estrin, Judy
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- The SDLC strikes back
- OK, so it doesn't have the same ring as The Empire Strikes Back, but it is really important. I've talked about the SDLC, or the Systems Development Lifecycle, before, but I was at a conference the other day when I was reminded of its importance. For...
- Tags: SDLC, Teacher, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- The Great Facilitator 3 (Windows)
- The Great Facilitator is an interactive learning and business support program for planning and preparing successful business meetings. The program uses the latest interactive multimedia technologies to provide users with a Self-Managed Interactive Learning Environment. The program includes: Lectures, Library of Example Phrase and Example Facilitation Skits, Interactive Quiz, Techniques,...
- Tags: Program, Multimedia, GLOBALINX, Great Facilitator, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- A Balanced Scorecard in 16 Weeks, Not 16 Months
- The speaker of this webcast will help to circumnavigate the common pitfalls of balanced scorecard development. He will talk about 11 lessons that will make a difference: appoint an external project facilitator; begin with senior management team commitment and education; start off with a six-perspective balanced scorecard template; focus on...
- Tags: Team, Balanced Scorecard, Team Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- Webcasts 2008-05-07
- Where's the money in open source?
- Where's the money in open source?The comparison is not vaildMass production is a concept. Software is a work product. Those who mass produced still had to buy the work product of others to implement the concept assembly line components are not free of cost. The people that provided those parts...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social mediaMaybe the root problem is......The seemingly total inability to spell or proof read? This blog is unreadable on its face apart from the blather of whatever the argument might be -- "argingerging," "ligs anogs," "chaineasinleasing hhuge," "Onoblem. Onlat can retrocan." Is this insider...
- Tags: poverty, social media, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, incoherence, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- The CIO's innovation dilemma
- The CIO's innovation dilemmaHolistic approach vs Google or MicrosoftGreat stuff, Dennis.A lot of companies treat the enterprise like medical specialists. They love the kidney and that's all they worry about. Google is explicit that they want to work around IT. And Microsoft clearly focuses 100% on IT at the exclusion...
- Tags: Benefits, IT IS, innovation dilemma, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- OnState Unified Messaging for Skype debuts today
- Contact center solutions provider OnState Communications has just announced OnState Unified Messaging for Skype. This is a single-platform, subscription-based Skype messaging solution that integrates email; voicemail; business chat; and customer contact messaging and recording systems. With a starting price as ...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Pity the fools at Time-Warner
- Pity the fools at Time-WarnerBitTorrent and DivXSeems [url=http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=286]Sony[/url] and [url=http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=287]AMD[/url] have taken an keen interest in using DivX.The interesting part about DivX is that it is portable across many devices, and the compression is excellent resulting in relatively small video files without sacrificing video/audio quality.My money is on DivX and...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, DivXNetworks, Time-Warner
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Financing Options to Improve IT Acquisition and Long-Term Management Strategies
- IT network infrastructure has emerged as the critical communication, collaboration, and information facilitator of the modern enterprise, broadly enabling most business processes, decision making, practices, and innovation initiatives. To deliver these capabilities, the IT organization has evolved its role beyond supporting a collection of servers and software into managing a...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Financing, International Data Group, IT Network Infrastructure, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Successful Workplace Communication
- View Available Dates and Locations This course features activities and role-playing exercise that will help you improve your oral interpersonal and small group communication skills in a workplace environment. Determine your communication style to help you capitalize on your strengths and improve your weaknesses. Have more...
- Tags: Technique, Workplace, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Productivity, Leadership, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Training 2008-01-01
- Get Started With Project-Based Learning
- Project-based learning emphasizes long-term, multidisciplinary assignments and activities that are student centered and focus on real-world problems and issues. The teacher serves more as a facilitator and assigns students tasks that need to be solved by conducting independent or group research. Project-based learning encourages students to think analytically and incorporate...
- Tags: Student
- White papers 2007-12-01
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