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Subscribe to Backblog  How Social Media Can Improve Communication and Collaboration During A Public Health Crisis May 29, 2009 By Shahid N Shah Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 My friends at Ozmosis, the Physician to Physician social network, have put together a nice presentation entitled "Health Alerts & Lessons Learned from H1N1". They’ve done a good job describing how simple social media tools can help clinicians communicate with each other during a public health... Dropbox makes USB drives obsolete May 28, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General Software Companies Well, maybe not obsolete, but definitely less integral for the mobile professional. I started using Dropbox roughly six months ago and have been consistently impressed with the service, single tweet of discontent aside. Dropbox syncs your files between computers on which you have their lightweight... Job losses feeding Tucows? Others feasting, too? May 27, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Tucows (TC:TSX) is a pretty familiar brand to many and an influential Internet pioneer. The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software (TUCOWS) was established in 1993 by Scott Swedorski, a library worker in Flint, Michigan as a way for people to easily download software at little or no cost.... The Return On Investment in Interaction (ROII) - Using Twitter for Purposeful Contextual Social Search in Social Medical Networks May 26, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking (cross-posted to the FASTForward blog) The Return on Investment (ROI) with respect to the use of social computing is a hot topic these days, as more and more organizations and business sectors are realizing social media and social computing are here to stay. Indeed, I just finished co-authoring ... The business value of projects like DeepQA May 25, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Lately, there has been quite a bit of discussion and media coverage over the project to have a computer compete on Jeopardy. Some compare this to a computer being able to play chess. To me, there is much more behind this from a business perspective. The game of 20 questions was cracked in 2004 using... Victor Cheng's Four Rules for Recession-Proofing Your Business May 22, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Victor Cheng 's four rules for recession-proofing a business, based on his analysis of the patterns behind businesses that grew during 12 recessions over the past 136 years: an opportunistic focus on growing a product or service addressing a problem that persisted, or got worse, during a... How the risk of a pandemic might affect your company May 21, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General A few days ago, probably through Twitter, I found an interesting site for auditors and other risk and compliance professionals called Compliance Week. Based in Boston, they publish a monthly magazine, a weekly email newsletter, and host several blogs and forums on the web. What led me to the site was... Invest in your company for compound interest May 20, 2009 By Paul Marshall Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 So I was talking to someone who had the following story for me as we discussed social media and it’s important role in brand building and community & employee engagement. Associate: Social media is a waste of time! I started a Facebook page for my business, I did some blogging, I twittered…heck... Trust is the Key in Long Term Contracts May 19, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing I know this has been written and spoken about umpteen times, but I feel so strongly that good and successful outsourcing arrangements are founded upon a high degree of trust in the relationship between the buy and the sell side. In my experience, most companies attempt to do a good job while writing... Being More Productive Requires Being Less Busy May 15, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Being busy is easy. It's easy to see. It's easy to achieve. With the economic slowdown, it's also a huge temptation. Everyone's being asked to do more with less. The sweat on my brow from all my hard work is proof that I'm doing more with less. But for what purpose and with what impact? Being... More on Haptic feedback for touch screens May 14, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General ICT Hardware and Infrastructure A number of years ago, former EDS Fellow, Randy wrote a blog entry about touch feedback being a problem for virtual screens. It looks like those haptic feedback are coming a bit closer to production. It's funny how adding another dimension to the user interaction experience can make it so much more... News the new way May 13, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Last night, protests that have been taking place in Toronto for the past few weeks at Queen’s Park and the US Consulate spilled onto the Gardiner Expressway, the elevated freeway that runs through downtown. It was this event that brought home to me on a personal level the way the world is changing... Stuff you should buy: Parrot Bluetooth car speakerphone May 12, 2009 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General ICT Hardware and Infrastructure Backbone magazine runs a gadget section in every issue. Those are small overview pieces; over here in blogland I am going to start highlighting notable devices with a more thorough review. First up: the Parrot Minikit Chic Bluetooth car speakerphone. Why you should buy it: excellent voice... Globalization of Outsourced Services Industry May 11, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing The outsourced services industry is morphing into a truly globalized industry – and sooner than later. This acceleration is fueled by the current recessionary conditions in the traditional markets of demand for outsourced services. I believe this is a desirable by-product of the current downturn. ... Swine flu and business continuity May 8, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Web 2.0 I sat in on some presentations by a group of seniors and grad students a week or so ago at the University of North Texas. One of the presentations was about business continuity. Unfortunately, they had a very IT-centric view that was more about data disaster recovery than real business continuity. ... Second CanadianEMR Roundtable Forum - Using IT to Support the Management of Chronic Disease May 7, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth In this second Quartery Roundtable Forum, a national group of panelists debates the role of Information Technology (IT) in the management of patients with one or more chronic disease. Topics discussed include Shared Care and the experience using Shared Care Plans in British Columbia, the experience... Security Awareness Training to Stem Data Loss from USB Drives May 6, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security USB drives are a great example of a business-enabling technology that carries an obvious security risk. Some USB drives allow you to store up to 64 GB of data, on something that easily fits into your pocket. You can pretty much swipe an entire company’s database. Whether someone is using that for... John Monoky's Take on Selling in Turbulent Times May 5, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Tech and Business Events John Monoky is an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education, Ross School of Business, UMich. He recently made a presentation to technology industry executives sponsored by the BC Technology Industry Association, BC Innovation Council + Sauder School of Business (UBC) on Selling in Turbulent Times.... Amazon offers free cloud computing services to educators and students May 4, 2009 By Shahid N Shah Categories: General Software Companies I don’t usually write out product announcements but this one really caught my eye: Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education. Here’s what they have (direct from their website): AWS in Education provides a set of programs that enable the worldwide academic community to easily leverage the benefits of... Bridgewater Systems' (BWC-TSX) Most Excellent Quarter May 1, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Today, BWC reported Q1 2009 earnings of $2.9 million or $0.12 EPS. Earnings reported for Q1 were nearly 5% higher than full-year 2008. Sales for Q1 2009 were reported at 14.0 million, a 64% increase over Q1 2008. Earnings appear to have soundly beat analyst expectations, and investors should be... Please select a category:
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