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Backblog November 2007  
I Don't Think I Fully Agree ... Fishnets
November 29, 2007 By Jon Husband
Categories: Web 2.0
.. with this statement lifted from the recent Globe and Mail review of Gary Hamel's book The Future of Management. -- The End of Management As We Know It ? [ Snip ... ] We also must learn from the Internet's example of widespread, leaderless collaborative effort. "The Web has evolved faster than...

United Nations Meeting Gives Mobile Service Providers More Bandwidth
November 28, 2007 By Charlie Bess
Categories: Wireless
A UN telecoms meeting decided to give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015. The decision will give manufacturers of wireless equipment...

Using RSS to keep up with your favourite sites
November 26, 2007 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: Web 2.0
If you want to keep up with this blog but don’t want to have to remember to check back on a regular basis, one option available to you is the RSS feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or...

Infoway - Canadians' support for electronic health records increases to 88 per cent, poll finds
November 21, 2007 By Alan Brookstone
Categories: eHealth
A survey conducted by EKOS Research Associates including interviews with 2,469 Canadians in June and July 2007 and published today by Canada Health Infoway has found that there is increasing support for EMRs/EHRs, however there is significant concern regarding privacy and the need to protect...

Using wikis or blogs to manage knowledge in firms
November 16, 2007 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: Web 2.0
A recent article on WebCPA confused and inspired me: Accounting firms need to become more intelligent businesses by better leveraging the time and knowledge of their professional staff, according to a survey… […] Firms with a formal knowledge management program benefited from its implementation. ...

Google Apps is great, except for the Patriot Act and confidentiality and all that
November 13, 2007 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Software Companies Web 2.0
My editorial in the current (November 2007) issue highlights some of the significant advantages that Google Apps delivers to corporate users. (The article is here.) It prompted a letter from reader Jim Charters of Toronto, and before I go any further I want to thank Jim for writing and to encourage...

Apple taking a bite from Windows
November 12, 2007 By Ian Harvey
Categories: Software Companies
Some thoughts on my story in yesterday’s Globe and Mail about how Macs are making inroads into business user. I was a little skeptical when I was first pitched on it but the more I got into the research the more interesting it got. And the more you look at the Windows-Apple issue the more you...

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