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Volunteer Management System V2000B0061 (Windows)

Volunteer Management System VMS auto-matches volunteers to positions according to skill and availability with scheduling accomplished with a mouse click. Scheduling changes are auto tracked so the volunteer manager can re-email schedules from withing VMS to affected volunteers and position supervisors. VMS handles groups of volunteers as easily as it...

Tags: Volunteer, Wright Information Technology Solutions, Volunteer Management System, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-12-03

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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

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

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureGNUI had always heard that "GNU" was a recursive acronym for "Gnu's Not Unix". It wasn't just me who thought that. For example, Eric Smith used the same naming scheme for his Atari ST OS, called MiNT Mint is Not Tos, and...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, GNU, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?

The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?Non-competes typically are enforced for......company executives. Clearly Mr. Papermaster was an executive of IBM and therefore the non-compete is applicable. IMO he does have a strong argument that his new role is materially different enough where the non-compete is not applicable.To work...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Utility computing, Blade servers, Papermaster, IBM Corp., IBM-Apple-Papermaster, IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle, triangle, NDA

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

So what can Sun do?

So what can Sun do?I have a couple of suggestions.Now doubt you wont like them, Murph, but here they are anyway:- Work with Microsoft to get Windows Server running on SPARC. Why? There are a lot of small businesses on Windows servers for whom the migration to Sun hardware is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Murph

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Fedora 9 ships, openSuse 11 due June 19

Red Hat's Fedora project yesterday quietly released version 9, an upgrade of its open source Linux operating system with support for live USB bootup, OpenJDK6 , KDE 4 and the ext4 file system. Fedora 9, code-named Sulphur, was developed by more than 2,000 volunteer developers, said Paul...

Tags: Fedora Project, KDE, Fedora 9, KDE 4, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-14

If you don't like it, fork it

One of the big concerns arising from the pending Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, and of proprietary open source in general, is the fear that a project's owner will abuse its power, even kill a worthwhile project. Well, fork that. (Picture from a YoLinux tutorial on the fork...

Tags: Project, Fork, Eclipse, Foundation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-01

A free Roadmaster Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit goes to the ZDNet reader who...

A free Roadmaster Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit goes to the ZDNet reader who...In need of bluetooth in my car.I *need* they kit, okay, thats not true.. I could really use it though. I bought my car Dodge Magnum a year and a half ago, the dealer I was at ...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Roadmaster Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

Corporate Computer Naming Policy

Not having a corporate computer-naming policy can make computer farms harder to manage, because there are no logical groupings. Implementing a logical, intuitive convention will allow precise targeting of specific computers based on certain system characteristics reflected. Adherence to the following corporate computer-naming convention plays a critical role in optimizing...

Tags: Computer, Productivity

Download resources 2006-11-06

Voting electronically? Be very afraid!

Voting electronically? Be very afraid!Guess you haven't seen this yethttp://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/09/video_testimony_of_v.htmlHere's video of Clint Curtis, a former programmer for Yang Enterprises YEI in Florida, testifying under oath that Representative Tom Feeney asked him to write a voting machine program to rig elections. Feeney is Republican Congressman who was the Speaker...

Tags: Corporate communications, Databases, Database Security, Representative Tom Feeney, Windley, voter, database

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

Traditional development and open source

Traditional development and open sourceAnswers . . . and questions[As part of that process, Netscape, the company, gained "adult supervision" - and those supervisors insisted on formalising development processes. So what happened? progress stopped, Microsoft gained three years in which to respond, and the combination of easy cash on the...

Tags: open source, OSS, OSS developer, software, developer

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

Diebold promises total fix in MD just weeks before election

Diebold promises total fix in MD just weeks before electionWorst fears.It is five weeks before the election. The power is in the hands of the companies with proprietary software. There is no way of rechecking the votes. Why not simply let Diebold and the rest appoint our...

Tags: Diebold Inc., voter

Discussion threads 2006-10-02

Windows Vista inches forward

Windows Vista inches forwardWindows Vista inches forwardForward march says Microsoft to Vista! With each new beta it just keeps getting better and better. January is going to be a great month for the computing industry.[i]The new test version does not include any new features, but a representative for the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, security industry, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

Story about Apple's crackdown on 'pod' usage getting lots of pickup

Story about Apple's crackdown on 'pod' usage getting lots of pickupYour post is oddYou seem to be lending defence to Apples position under the guise of the ‘right of defence'. While under the law they certainly have a right to assert such an attack under the ‘guise' of defending...

Tags: Apple Inc., common term, patent

Discussion threads 2006-08-15

Open source won't doom traditional enterprise software

Open source won't doom traditional enterprise softwareThe Irregulars en masse...Dan,Thanks for the mention. As you know, many of us have posted more elaborate responses (the piece at Sandhill was a condensed version of all 10 viewpoints) on our own blogs. Best,JasonRed Hat a service company?Company management recognizes that service companies...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Company Management, open source, Red Hat Inc., enterprise software

Discussion threads 2006-08-08

Too important to be open source?

Too important to be open source?Yet encryption xan be open sourced ???The idea seems right until you consider the best encrytpion programme on the planet is open source. Is not the code base, but the encryption key that secures it that really matters. Open source programmes in my experience, get...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

I use .Mac, do you?

I use .Mac, do you?Message has been deleted.No interestI just can't see paying for another e-mail address. I've already got one through work, and can have as many free GMail or Yahoo accounts as I want, not to mention the 9 mailboxes my home ISP provides.The one thing .Mac...

Tags: Desktops, Backups, Apple Macintosh, dot-Mac, backup, Apple iLife

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Web 2.0? Who's got time for that?

We all know Nick Carr is very hard to please when it comes to demonstrating the value of information technology, and shows no mercy as he picks apart the enterprise-readiness of emerging Web 2.0 applications. Which is to say, Web 2.0 may be ready for the enterprise, but the enterprise...

Tags: knowledge, Nick Carr, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-04-20