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America's blocked labor policies

America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...

Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

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Facebook freezes deceased person's profiles

Depends on cost to FacebookThere is some labor involved in converting the pages. There is, of course, the storage cost.And by removal of advertising links on those pages, a loss of revenue.On the other hand, if Facebook were to offer the families a "perpetual memorial page" similar to a...

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Now the fun starts on health reform

Tyranny wrapped up in compassionand you're a willing advocate. News flash for you. You won't get to be one of the rulers. Your life will wind up sucking just as badly as everyone else under the new system.A move to Canada is looking better and better every day. nt:-(Health Care...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, province, federal government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Web, Virtualization, Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, E-books, Open Source, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

ClockIt: Easy Schedule Creator 6.8.2 (Windows)

ClockIt is an employee & labor planning software. The user-friendly interface and powerful query features make it the ideal tool for creating your schedules. Spending too much time on scheduling your employees. Use our Automatic Scheduling tool and ClockIt will do the planning for you. This schedule maker allows you...

Tags: Software, Es-software, Microsoft Windows, Tool, ClockIt, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Microsoft and their Photoshop diversity policy

Wow!Looking forward to hearing the PR claw back for this one. This is just in-excusable, regardless of local politics. It's not even well done!World's shortest neckCould have lifted the head a bit higher.Also, not necessarily any sinister motive. When budgets are enormous, you pay for focus groups to determine...

Tags: Public relations, Marketing research, iGeneration, Photoshop diversity policy, Microsoft Corp., diversity policy, Adobe PhotoShop

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

IT Security: Context is King

One of the big blockers for enterprise collaboration uptake is ediscovery and compliance - and depending on the business entity the familiarity, processes and confidence in dealing with legal issues. This is a broad topic, but you can simplify it down into two broad camps: companies that are set up...

Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Strategy, Security, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from KindlesDTPALet's hope somebody decides to sue their butts off under a state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act -- claiming that an item sold has qualities, characteristics, source, certification, approval or etc., which in fact it does not have (e.g., claiming non-kosher products are kosher)....

Tags: E-books, Amazon.com Inc., e-book

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on orderRock on Maine! [nt][b][/b]RE: Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order"Imagine going to a job where the company provides you with a laptop for 3 years and then switching jobs, only to find that...

Tags: Desktops, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Macintosh, job

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Good Technology adds iPhone support to its enterprise suite

Good Technology on Wednesday rolled out iPhone support in its enterprise management suite at the CTIA Wireless conference. Good Technology, which is now owned by Visto, said it was adding iPhone security and device management tools to its Good for Enterprise 6.0 suite. In a nutshell, Good...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Good Technology Inc., E-mail, Utility Computing, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-01

The Utah way of health reform

The Utah way of health reformUtah NetCare PlanThanks for writing this article. I am kind of tired of blogs just copying the news articles. You have some original content in here. Thanks for that! I have a site about the Utah NetCare plan. It's purpose...

Tags: payroll solutions, Regulations, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, ERISA, health care, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

Why U.S. Visa policies are like Microsoft Windows

Inventory of H-1B Visa Woes & What’s Needed for Positive Change U.S. immigration and visa policies are like the Windows operating system. After decades of usage and many repairs to its code/policies, they both still need more patching and enhancements. Both of these institutions start off with...

Tags: U.S., Visa Inc., Visa, H-1B Visa, Window, Arbitrage, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-18

What goes around comes around

What goes around comes aroundThe picture is wrong.It should be a group photo of Congress, with Barny and Nancy front and center holding up their book called "How to Destroy an economy in 9 short years"Chapter 1 starts with the Community Reinvestment Act. Introduce an enforced social program where...

Tags: Financial services, Chapter 4, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, bank, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Password stealing malware masquerades as Firefox add-on

Password stealing malware masquerades as Firefox add-onAll it takes is will, of which there is none.ISPs don't care, and won't take any steps to simply cut them off for fear or anyone complaining. TripleIICut them off from the worldHow long would these sites last if we told the hosting...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), password, Internet Service Provider, TripleII, malware, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Obama won the election - not social media

Obama won the election - not social mediaSocial Media DID WinSocial media certainly did win last night. The part it played in Barack Obama's win may have been overblown by some, but the social media presences both candidates had played a huge part in communicating the issues to a...

Tags: Obama, social media

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Google: Evil or just overworked?

According to some pundits, Google has replaced Microsoft as the leading "evil" empire. As long as Google is top dog in the search market, there's little they can do to avoid the sour grapes from competitors, but with a little effort they could satisfy some of their critics and improve...

Tags: Google Inc., Google AdSense, Fredric Paul, Litigation, Business Operations, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-20

ClockIt Easy Schedule Creator 6.2 (Windows)

ClockIt: Easy Schedule Creator is a fast and easy to use employee & labor planning software. The user friendly interface and powerful query features make it the ideal tool for creating custom schedules. Spending to much time on scheduling your employees? Use our Automatic Scheduling tool and ClockIt: Easy Schedule...

Tags: Employee, Microsoft Windows, Tool, ClockIt, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-10-01

Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth

USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last decade or so. And in the process America’s newspaper debunks some stupid policy issues on the subject...

Tags: Oil, Enterprise Software, NAM, Manufacturing, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-12