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Location awareness -- the tip of the iceberg
February 29, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General
Last week I was talking with Vinnie Mirchandani about the impact of all the sensor information coming into the enterprise in the near future. What the effect will be on ERP systems...
This week I saw an article in information week about the same subject. As sensor use enters into the enterprise,...
Open source code...
February 28, 2008 By Charles Perez
Categories: General
Many people have heard of open source code and some will have heard of the licensing regime that follows much of that code - the essence of the regime is that if you use the open source code (ie. code that is freely distributed) you have to share your product with the rest of the coding community.
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Del.icio.us questions I can sink my teeth into
February 27, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Social Networking
My current course is covering tagging this week. As such, I posted this blog's prior del.icio.us primer to my class forum. There were two responses that offer interesting concerns about usefulness and safety of del.icio.us.
Value of del.icio.us
From S.C.:
"I used to be a information junkie and file...
Working with big companies
February 26, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General
In the past few weeks, there has been a great deal of discussion about what Microsoft or Yahoo will do. It made me think about a blog entry I'd see a while back about the inexplicable behavior of large companies. The entry is well worth reading and uses a Moby Dick metaphor to describe guidelines...
Are GP Oriented EMRs Appropriate for Specialists?
February 25, 2008 By Alan Brookstone
Categories: eHealth
This is the first posting in a new section that I have created on CanadianEMR focused specifically on specialist needs for EMR. The focus in Canada to date has been to identify EMR systems that meet the needs of GPs, the largest single group of physicians. This has also occurred at a time that...
ERP Software Practices Can Even Help Manage Girl Scout Cookies
February 21, 2008 By Rebecca Gill
Categories: General
Winter is here, cold weather abounds, and Girl Scout cookies are in plentiful supply. My daughter is a Girl Scout and much to my surprise, I am the cookie mom for the second year in a row. Last year my daughter and I were completely clueless on the process. She thought we were actually baking the...
Technical Leadership (part 2) - Communication
February 20, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General
After the blog entry the other day, I had a couple people ask me about the role of communications.
One of the issues I've always encountered with technical leadership is the ability communicate technical information to the leaders and followers (the audience). I've always had the problem myself of...
Own an HD DVD player? You've just been abandoned
February 19, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: General
Tues., Feb. 19 was a bad day if you happen to own an HD DVD player. Following a number of setbacks--including a slew of retailers and movie studios jumping ship--Toshiba officially pulled the plug on the HD DVD format. For all your high-def needs, the future is all about Blu-ray.
For most people,...
Interview for a job, get paid
February 15, 2008 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: IT Staffing Solutions Web 2.0
The site is called NotchUp and allows employers to pay to interview job candidates who otherwise wouldn’t be looking for a new job.
Associated Press has the lowdown:
How it works: You plug in your industry, job, pay and experience into a calculator on the site to help you set your pay for an...
Technical Leadership
February 14, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General
Back in the 80s, I read a book titled Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald Weinberg (I just noticed that he has a blog on his web page). This book is one I recommend to anyone who is thinking about technical leadership vs. formal leadership. Technical leadership does not seem to be something that...
Academic Research Online Is a Walled Garden
February 12, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Online Education and MBAs Web 2.0
I've been consumed for the past three weeks researching and writing papers for my Master’s program. I managed to write one paper an Internet topic (a semiotic analysis of folksonomies) and added as many Net references in the others as I could.
In the process of researching online on online topics, I...
Apple and 20th Century give buyers iTunes movie copies. Sounds good, right?
February 11, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: General
The place: a high school classroom. The time: mid 1980s. A teacher stands at the front of the room, rolls up his sleeve and shows the students his watch.
"I paid $200 for this. It's a nice watch and it came with a two-year warranty. Now, who thinks that sounds like a good warranty?"
Most of us put...
AI - meant for tasks we don't have patience for?
February 8, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General
In a recent issue of the futurist there is a set of interviews titled The AI Chaser. This article discussed a number of subtle ways that robotic capabilities are being introduced. I find it interesting that a many of the things discussed or illustrated (e.g., the robotic eaves trough cleaner) are...
The Coming of the Cloud, Networked Knowledge Work and New Business Logic
February 6, 2008 By Jon Husband
Categories: General
Here below is an excerpt from and a link to a report just published by the recent Aspen Institute’s Communications and Society program.
In a previous post I mentioned a growing awareness of the impact of the interconnected digital infrastructure and digital natives on the Enterprise 2.0 market. The...
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