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Surviving the Shakeout in Consumer Health Sites August 27, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: eHealth The folks over at Health Content Advisors talk about the business side of online consumer health firms. With big firms like Revolution Health not doing well, it’s getting a little scarier if you don’t have deep pockets to make the advertising model work. As a blogger whose been around the block and... Follow up to 'Delight' post August 25, 2008 By Paul Marshall Categories: General More and more you are starting to see super exciting roles for "Community Manager's" at exciting young tech companies. In most cases I view these roles as the Chief Delightment Officer at a company who engages with, support and befriends the community and makes the product, brand and company real to... Interview Questions for Prospective Website Managers August 22, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: IT Staffing Solutions Before I left my previous job, I was asked to come up with some questions on what would be good job interview questions to ask of a prospective website manager. This is for a jack-of-all-trades and hands-on kind of manager that needs to know a lot of things to run a website. Here's what I came up... I want a flying car, but maybe it's not a good idea August 20, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Back in 2004, we published an article on what life would be like in the year 2014. We did not predict flying cars by then--and sadly that was a prudent decision--but with any luck we may just have jet packs in the near future. That article, written by renowned Canadian sci-fi novelist Robert J.... So You Followed Proper IT Security Procedures and Still Got Burned? (Part 1 of 2) August 18, 2008 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: Security I got my laptop computer shipped back to me today and its working perfectly fine – which upsets me a great deal. You see, the computer isn’t supposed to be working. The manufacturer’s finest customer service reps assured me repeatedly that the only fix for my password-locked machine was replacing... Always bet on the Machine – the fate of software development August 14, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General If you look back forty years ago, there were hundreds of thousands of telephone operators in the US working for AT&T alone. Now the function has been almost totally automated. Before the 1950s, "computer" was a job code (usually doing actuarial work), not a device that would be recognized by... The Golden Rule for ERP Software Vendors - Use What You Sell and Sell What You Use August 12, 2008 By Rebecca Gill Categories: General A recent article prompted me to pause and sit in bewilderment. To my surprise, not all ERP vendors use their own ERP software to run their internal operations. No, I thought, it cannot be true. But it is true. And if you are as shocked as I was, well, join the club of disbelievers. Since we began... Making the Most Out of LinkedIn - For You & Me August 5, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 Now that I'm no longer employed by my former company, I have updated my LinkedIn settings. I also registered glenfarrelly.ca yesterday and thus am now qualified to join Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), so I added that to my profile as well. LinkedIn offers a lot of features that are... MyFamilyHealth is a great Web 2.0 health site August 1, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: eHealth Web 2.0 The folks at MyFamilyHealth.com have combined online genealogy, social networking, and basic personal health record management for a single and eminently useful purpose: learning more about your family’s medical history to help improve your own health by better understanding your genetic risks. It... Please select a category:
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