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Subscribe to Backblog  Mashup standards October 30, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I was reading SD Times the other day while riding an exercise bike at the gym (hey, you have to do something to keep your mind occupied) and I came across an article on the Open Mashup Alliance. I had quite a number of questions about the OMA. Although it is not really a standards body, OMA is... Ethics enhanced by clean smells October 29, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General I wonder if this is something businesses (including accounting firms) might want to look into: A study at Brigham Young University has found that people are “unconsciously fairer and more generous” in clean-smelling environments. 'The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with... Cloud Computing A Myth October 28, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Is all of the excitement about the advent of cloud computing all just hype? To an extent, yes. As ZDNet reporter Lori MacVittie points out, to an extent, organizations are already using the cloud in plenty of applications: "Google's Chrome OS is not the only operating system to which the cloud... Keeping Your Healthcare Sourcing Strategy Moving Forward (with Confidence!) During Turbulent Times October 27, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General eHealth Outsourcing Today’s global economic conditions are unprecedented for decision makers in healthcare. For example, every part of the United States healthcare business model is undergoing significant and unpredictable change; and we’re not even close to the finished model. Despite these turbulent times, healthcare... IT Matters to Your Health October 26, 2009 By Michael Martineau Categories: General eHealth Over the past few days I have been following articles in my local newspaper, the Ottawa Citizen, on the ballooning provincial deficit and the government’s plan to review all provincial spending. I thought to myself “I wonder if any of the eHealth budget will be cut, particularly given all the media... Technical trends from an HR perspective October 23, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General IT Staffing Solutions A few weeks ago I participated in a technical trend conversation aimed mainly at the oil and gas organizations. Last weekend I did something similar but this time talking with some individuals from various HR organizations - at an HR Roundtable Summit that SMU held in San Antonio. Their rankings came... what is that thing in the CRM punchbowl? October 22, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Not too long ago, a prospect asked us to review their sales and lead generation programs because lead flow had dropped significantly. This concerned them because they had just finished a significant new product launch with a well- known interactive marketing agency. We agreed to sniff around. Every... Access Management and Protecting the Network October 21, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security When we think about maintaining and protecting the network, we often focus on hardening the system against outsider threats. It makes sense, since the majority of attacks on a network come from the outside. But when insider attacks occur, they can do a lot more damage. That's where access management... Dealing with information overload - email October 20, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General In the October IEEE Spectrum there was an article on How to Beat Information Overload.that I found very timely since, during this past week, there were a number of cases where I saw a question go out to a distribution list asking for technical insight and numerous answers coming back using "reply... 101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital October 19, 2009 By Shahid N Shah Categories: General eHealth Social Networking Web 2.0 The LPN to RN Blog has a nice posting on 101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital. It’s worth checking out. Shahid N. Shah The Healthcare IT Guy BC Retains Commitment to Tech Sector October 16, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General As an Information Technology consulting firm in the heart of BC’s tech hub in Vancouver, we’re certainly heartened by the BC government’s commitment to critical support for our province’s knowledge economy. As BCTIA President Pascal Spothelfer has noted in the Voice, key technology sector... Governments Change Direction on Health E-records October 15, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Reported in Australian IT October 13, 2009, it appears that Australia is adopting a new ehealth national strategy. NEHTA is the Australian National eHealth Transition Authority and plays a role similar to Canada Health Infoway. Australia is moving towards a "person controlled" electronic record -... Why The IT Sector Has Outperformed the General Market YTD 2009: Licensing October 14, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment As of September 18th, the TSX Information Technology Index has increased year-to-date by 69.8% and has been the best performing sector in the market.(Global Equity Weekly - BMO). As a corollary to this, in the case that skeptics believe it to be a RIM-only measurement, the information technology... Tuesday, October 13th is 'National Face Your Fears Day' October 13, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General It even has an official site to help folks confront and overcome the fears that hold them back. There are many things that keep people (and IT organizations) from doing what they need to do to move their organization forward. One of the first is an inability to face up to what's going on around them... Growing Not Quite Ready for Enterprise Use? October 9, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security I caught an interesting snapshot of some companies' experience in moving their email from Lotus to Gmail on what seems to be a purely cost-cutting basis: "Genentech, Hamilton Beach, and Johnson Diversey are among a smattering of large companies that have turned off their e-mail servers and signed up... Participation Points October 8, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Web 2.0 Recent studies have come out that present a sobering look at celebratory claims that online activities are an effective means of participatory democracy. 1) Pew’s study this month, The Internet and Civic Engagement, finds that predominantly the people that participate in online political activity... Application portfolio assessment's many benefits October 7, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a few years ago. I've blogged in the past about the... A Bombshell for EMRs in Canada - Classification of EMRs as 'Medical Devices' October 6, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Few heard the sound of the bombshell launched by Health Canada on August 31, 2009 which hit the EMR industry right between the eyes. In addition to all of the difficulties that EMR vendors face in reaching conformance with provincial requirements in order to be 'approved applications' in a specific... Media, Arts and the Community .. an example of useful convergence October 5, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 There’s a growing number of forms of experimentation with community development and social activism that combines a wide range of artistic expression (writing, painting, sculture, participative expression, video, dance, VJ, DJ, photography, mixed media, etc) with community development. One such... Devfense Cyber Alert Goes Online October 2, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security We've just launched a new public service, Devfense Cyber Alert. The free service will help users know which websites have been flagged as vulnerable to hackers and may harm Internet surfers' computers or be used to violate their privacy. This information is published on Twitter at https://twitter... Are the drivers for a cloud data center all that different than for a traditional data center? October 1, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware running independently managed operating systems. These environments are... Please select a category:
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