Resources for IT Managers
eBooks have become very popular with devices such as the Kindle and the new iPad. You can get applications for your smart phone to read PDF files and eBooks from most popular book sites. There are a large selection of eBooks and many are free. Amazon has a collection of free eBooks for their Kindle reader so be sure and check their site. You don’t have to buy a Kindle to read them. They have … [Read more...]
Have an IPad and want to use a keyboard? Are you losing your leadership mojo? Want to know the 10 fatal mistakes managers make in email? Want to know some good ways to declutter your digital life this weekend? Need to brush up on your negotiating basics? The Weekend Reading List is a collection of posts, articles and videos from around the Internet posted each Saturday. Feel free to submit your … [Read more...]
Super Bowl 2010 commercials and ad's are as anticipated as the game. As I did last year with the 2009 Super Bowl ad's I am stepping outside the niche to bring you some of the best Super Bowl commercials from Super Bowl 2010, funny ads from the past Super Bowl's and commercials banned from the 2010 Super Bowl. Come back after the game for a full lineup of the best of the 2010 Super Bowl … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs is known for giving presentations that keep his audience engaged. He has a natural talent for public speaking and he has honed it to an art form. Some would say it is nothing more than a salesman’s pitch, but are not a lot of presentations just that? While we may not have the gift for presentation that Steve Jobs has, we can learn a lot about giving good presentations by listening … [Read more...]
There are several news sites that now offer content only to paid subscribers. The Wall Street Journal is an example. If you are not a subscriber you can only read a preview of the content. To read the full article you must subscribe to the site. Fortunately there is a way around this so you can read full articles. This comes by way of the Google First Click Free program. If you use a site a lot … [Read more...]
Email has become the de facto standard for business communications. It is on our desktop, our laptop and our phone. For this reason email has become the new form of “on the record” types of communications within organizations, thus like everything else subject to politics. Office politics within an organization seems to be an unavoidable part of the job. Many have an agenda, turf to protect … [Read more...]
Doing research for another post I ran across a survey where people were asked if they had ever sent out an email message to the wrong person or copied someone by mistake. Not surprisingly seventy-eight percent of the respondents answered yes they had. I am sure we all have sent out emails by mistake. I have used the recall button more than once, but usually because I forgot to include an … [Read more...]
Speed, Ease of Integration, Global Coverage Provide Significant Customer Benefits. The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today issued a report that shows The Planet Storage Cloud outperforms similar cloud storage platforms in both read and write tests. With its benefits of on-premise storage, elastic cloud design and utility-based billing, The Planet Storage Cloud delivers transfer … [Read more...]