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- Why IT doesn't meet expectations
- I got asked, the other day, why big systems projects usually fail - and asked a question in response: "why does it take so long to walk to Calgary?" (About 200 KM). The key reason IT is often a source of cost and frustration is that senior managers...
- Tags: IT IS, Joes, Joes career
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
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- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- sBOOKs - Robert Louis Stevenson (exe)
- See 15 ebooks from R. L. Stevevson in one easy to use application. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. He studied at Edinburgh University and also qualified as a lawyer. He travelled extensively in Europe and began his writing career during these years. He...
- Tags: SmartSolutions, E-books, Professional Development, Personal Technology, Career
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Cooking Dash (exe)
- In Cooking Dash, Flo returns to cook dishes instead of serve them. When Cookie the Chef leaves Flo`s Diner to pursue a career on a popular reality cooking TV show, there is a shortage of chefs in DinerTown as Cookie invites them all to appear as guest stars. Flo, with...
- Tags: Cookie, SpinTop Games
- Software downloads 2008-10-06
- Churchill Club podcast: From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia's CEO
- Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, sat down with Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to discuss the mobile market. Kallasvuo has led the company for the past two years, but has held a variety of positions in his 28-year Nokia career, including heading its North American unit in the late...
- Tags: Software, Phone, Nokia Corp., Cell Phone, Kallasvuo, Smart Phones, Podcasts, Cellular Phones, Professional Development, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Career, masaokad
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Perens new crusade is patent law
- Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...
- Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- Obama releases iPhone campaign toolSay what you will about his politics but this manis on the ball. His fund raising via the web has been a smashing success. Now this tool for the iPhone. He knows what he's doing. He's not arrogant he's confident.Pagan jimDoes it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, McCains, Obama, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...
- Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Video: What's the difference between CIO and CTO?
- When you talk about IT leadership career tracks, the question that almost always comes up is, "What's the difference between the CIO and the CTO?" Though the two roles sound similar, there are some clear distinctions between them. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives explains the differences in...
- Tags: Video, Difference, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Congress opens Pandora Box of mental health parity
- Congress opens Pandora Box of mental health parityIsn't that what actuaries are for?Assuming that mental health issues are illnesses, isn't is possible to do statistical analyses on various mental health illnesses to figure out their probability of occurring and costs of treatments. That's how other things are insured including...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Professional development, Mental Illness, health care, health parity, Pandora, depression, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- 10 ways to survive office politics
- Friction, deceit, gossip, rivalry, power plays -- fine for movies and TV, but potentially disastrous in the workplace. Calvin Sun looks at strategies for steering clear of issues that can unravel company culture and hurt your career.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Tags: Office Politics, Calvin Sun, Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet
- Download resources 2008-09-25
- Defense-in-depth in practice
- A long portion of my career in information security was spent as a security consultant. I would come into an engagement and either analyze data or an architecture and provide recommendations to the client on improvements they could make in their security posture. Maybe 9 times out of...
- Tags: Layer, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- As legislators struggle with a $1 trillion bailout (including the $300 billion already spent on Bear Stearns and AIG) for Wall Street, John McCain called for the details of the proposal to be put online, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. "The American people have the right to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., John McCain, McCain, Obama, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Top site categories in Japan in June 2008
- Site Category May-2008 Jun-2008 % Change Total Internet 55,705 56,220 1 Health - Information 4,750 5,623 18 Financial Information/Advice 4,222 4,918 16 Retail - Movies 5,412 6,295 16 Career Services 10,203 11,818 16 Business to Business 2,528 2,893...
- Tags: Category, Professional Development, Internet, B2B, Career, E-business/E-Commerce, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Taking a Bott beating
- My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...
- Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?How is the curriculum ...... the responsibility of the IT director? Shouldn't you stick to supporting what the educators determine is the appropriate curriculum.RE: CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?A bug in a drawing is going to be more obvious than a bug in...
- Tags: Development tools, CAD, programming
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- SIP is the future of telecommunications
- SIP is the future of telecommunicationsahhh no mention of IAX(2)?IAX(2) is better than SIP... they just want to focus on what they have and not what they should be using.I cisco, but at times like this... it makes me wonder.RE: SIP is the future of telecommunicationsYep, you can buy a...
- Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IAX2, telecommunications, SIP, Asterisk, IAX
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Are certifications worth the money?
- Are certifications worth the money?agreedI've been working in IT for over 10 years, professionally, which spawned from my early love of computers. I have to agree that in many cases you'll find hands on experience will trump a degree or cert. I've been hired over degree and cert holders a...
- Tags: Quality, training and certification, Project Management certification, certification
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
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