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Young adults are actually using libraries

Just when you thought us aging Gen-Xers and our Generation iPod successors had given up on anything other than Google and Sparknotes, a new study was featured on CNN.com suggesting three things: Young adults actually use libraries, The role of libraries is evolving in an increasingly digital world,...

Tags: Library, Internet, Job Training, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-01

Google financials show it is shifting revenue from its partner media sites

Google financials show it is shifting revenue from its partner media sitesThe reason it is shifting is......that the authenticity of the traffic is lousy from the partner sites. With the exception of a very few, very large partner sites (such as NYT, as you mentioned), the performance of the...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, SiliconValleyWatcher.com, advertisement, Google Inc., job training, advertiser, CPM, partnership

Discussion threads 2006-01-31

Utah Case Study

When Utah became an early implementing state under the Workforce Investment Act WIA in July 1999, it was well positioned to do so. Utah has a long history of commitment to effective job training programs. From 1983 to 1998, Utah organized more along the lines of other states, with nine...

Tags: Utah, Workforce, Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Case studies

United Way "Gets It Done" With Advantage and Rainbow

In addition to identifying and funding key needs in the community, United Way supports welfare-to-work initiatives, youth taskforces and job training and placement services, seeking to remove barriers to employment for youths and adults. The 80-year old organization faced its own barriers to efficiency and growth in the form of...

Tags: United Way, Job Training, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Services, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies

El Paso Empowerment Zone: Empowering Residents Through Creative Education, job training, Affordable Housing, and Transportation

With unemployment in El Paso almost double the national average, the need for a proper job training initiative became critical. Project ARRIBA Advanced Retraining Redevelopment Initiative Border Areas has demonstrated a model for success by graduating 60 participants into high demand occupations that were conventionally filled by people outside of...

Tags: Education, Job, El Paso Corp., Transportation, U.S. Department Of Housing, Project ARRIBA, Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations

Case studies

Additional Resources

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case

In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...

Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

What open source teaches publishers

I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...

Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)

Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Digital Camera (exe)

All data recovery software, data recovery services for hard drive/disk recovery and remove bad sector from hard disk/drive. Password recovery utility from tally. NTFS/FAT partitions recovery. We provide physical data recovery training, cyber forensic training, tracking e-mail accounts, IP tracing, recovering deleted evidence. This version is the first release on...

Tags: Data Recovery, Digital Camera, Camera, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Workday lands big Flextronics deal

Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta

Palo Alto-based travel meta-search site UpTake formerly Kango entered a new phase this morning, emerging from a private beta programme that began in December to give a clear indication of how they've been spending the $4million secured from Shasta Ventures last year. For...

Tags: Hotel, San Diego, Site, UpTake, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts

IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of other network traffic on a converged infrastructure....

Tags: Deployment, QoS, Telephony, Performance, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts 2008-05-14

Veil (exe)

Have you ever thought that you can hide a file or a folder behind another file? If you have thought about it before but you don't know how to work that up, Veil will do the job for you. Veil not just only hide your file or folder, it also...

Tags: File, HideIT, Recruitment & Selection, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Navicat Free MySQL GUI (exe)

Navicat MySQL Manager version 8.x is a MySQL database management tool, which can convert XML, CSV, MS Excel, MS Access, and popular data formats to MySQL databases, eliminating time-consuming data entry and the errors that accompany it. Other useful major features include Import and Export wizard, Unicode support, HTTP/SSH Tunnel,...

Tags: MySQL, GUI, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-05-14

GymGoal Lite (zip)

GymGoal Lite puts over 200 weight training exercises at your fingertips. Every exercise comes with detailed instructions. Most of exercises are illustrated by drawings. The software makes it easy to find exercises by worked muscles, type, equipment, level of difficulty, and other parameters. GymGoal Lite also offers ready-to-use workout routines,...

Tags: Exercise, Smaltek, GymGoal Lite, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today

Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from todayI wonder...Would you spend so much time on each bug that Apple fixes? What was the last count? A total of 85 in one go or something like that.Then again, that would take too many multi-part blogs. Better to...

Tags: Microsoft Flaws, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?

InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13

UK education agency nixes OOXML

Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-13