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States use GPS-enabled devices to enhance social worker safety

In spite of the high demand for social workers, state welfare agencies are seeing a shortage of skilled workers replenishing the industry. With baby-boom retirements, high turnover rates and relatively low salaries, not to mention the occasional dangerous situation, some states are equipping their frontline caseworkers with Global Positioning System...

Tags: workers compensation, worker, social worker, GPS

Blog posts 2007-03-21

White Paper on Data Quality

This paper is intended to identify challenges and opportunities that present themselves with respect to maintaining and improving the quality of workers compensation data. It will explain the value and nature of workers compensation data commonly collected and used by The Workers Compensation Insurance Organizations WCIO members. The paper presents...

Tags: Data Quality, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation Data, Benefits, Databases, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-07-01

Additional Resources

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Do college degrees get you anywhere?

Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

NY gov signs game bill into law

New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...

Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-23

Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?

Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?Greed is the problem with our systemYes we are capitolists but greed is problem when it comes to affecting the lives of millions.People sue for malpractice and receive millions. Laywers make a bunch a money from the cases. Insurers make money...

Tags: Insurance, insurance company

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

The evolution of search over traditional BI

Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...

Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio

News items 2008-07-22

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...

Tags: Coffee, Starbucks Corp., Modems, Retail, Wireless LANs, DSL, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Offshore outsourcers turn cautious

Offshore outsourcers turn cautiousCautious? Or gone?I lost my job in a Wipro outsourcing...Fortunately I had five other offers from other organizations who were happy to have me. My previous employer is struggling with issues and helpdesk tickets behind schedule as well. Make sure your contracts and SLAs...

Tags: outsourcing

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone

General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in the world. I was able to see Dr Sukh Grewal, Manager of GE's 'SupportCentral' collaboration...

Tags: Backbone, General Electric Co., SupportCentral, Collaboration, Groupware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-17

In America money is life

In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...

Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

78% of US employees feel burned out on the job

78% of American workers told CareerBuilder they feel burned out. 46% feel their workload has increased over the last six months. 45% described their current workload as heavy or too heavy. 23% said they are dissatisfied with their current work/life balance. 54% of workers said their companies offer some sort...

Tags: Job, Workload, Worker, AM

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book

Following on from my previous post about AIIM's upcoming 'Findability' report, Daniela Barbosa of Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions, has created a colorful free ebook called 'The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the right recipe for organizing enterprise metadata' Designed in the style...

Tags: Folksonomy, River, Tool, Productivity, Social Networking, E-books, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-15

What your boss hates about telecommuting

What your boss hates about telecommutingsince 1994....since 1994 I've been a full time telecommuter. It works very well for me and my family. I can see it NOT working for many people and many careers. Lower auto insurance rates, no commuting costs.. but your home electric bill may creep up....

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

The full cost of ADHD includes ignorance

The full cost of ADHD includes ignoranceare you a real doctor or like a Doctor Pepper?From your column "In females it displays differently, often as passivity, which means it often goes undiagnosed."Passivity? FYI, "passivity" is one of the symptoms of ADHD. Concentrate and try to answer the question, do you...

Tags: Games, ADHD

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source

Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open sourceQuestionYou say:"The real problem, it seems to me, is they don’t understand the nature of support in an open source world. It’s a mutual process, a matrix, combining your own efforts, those of vendors, and those of communities which may include competitors.The...

Tags: Blogging, Self-Reliance, open source, communism, benefit

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spending

CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spendingOpportunity for more OutsourcingLook for firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation (i.e. consistently screwed customers), Affiliated Computer Services always screwed customers, et al to take marketing advantage of this situation by promising to reduce those nasty IT costs salaried American workers and...

Tags: second-half

Discussion threads 2008-07-14