One of the elements you should consider when putting together your IT strategy is who your third party consultant is that maintains no ties to any of your other vendors. Sure, maybe they know them and they are friendly and such, which they should be, but there’s no financial interests in the other party. The reason [...]
Lately, there have been a lot of posts about mobile workers. It seems that many of us are on the go all the time. Whether we’re connecting via BlackBerry, smart phones, or laptop wireless cards, we’re almost always available. Personally, I get my best work done by varying where I work. Here are ten quick [...]
Our phone industry continues to change. Skype announced that it is providing free calls from Skype to any US-based landline (POTS) or mobile number through the end of the year. This is amazing. There are over 100 million people using Skype — many of whom probably would like to call the US for business or [...]
The other day, I spoke with an engineer I respect. He and I were talking about a number of issues, but one still resonates with me: Are we, as businesspeople, truly ready to pay for value instead of time? We talked about it in the aspect of a computer engineer’s time to perform tasks and [...]
Just a quick post for the people interested in protecting their rights to publish and “speak”. The EFF and a group coordinated by Stanford Law School have published two guides. The EFF guide to blogging and the law can be found here: http://www.eff.org/bloggers/. The brand new Podcasting Legal Guide can be found here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide. If [...]