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Subscribe to Backblog  CEO Series: Interview with Geoff Rotstein, CEO of Cyberplex, Performance Advertising Pioneers January 29, 2010 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment This is the third in a series of interviews conducted with CEOs of interesting Canadian technology companies. The intent of this project is to provide investors with a unique understanding of what various companies are doing - directly from the top dog. Hopefully, the interviews conducted over the... Political Participation Online in Canada January 28, 2010 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General On the weekend, my wife, daughter and I joined thousands of Canadians protesting Stephen Harper proroguing parliament. The protests were particularly remarkable as they grew from a Facebook group "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament". The group organized only a few weeks ago has over 200,000... Outlier Example January 27, 2010 By Paul Marshall Categories: General via youtube.com OK so I am a big Neil Peart fan and a bit of a drum geek but having heard Neil speak and his story it is an excellent example of Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hr rule in his Outlier book. (I have linked to my favorite solo of his on Youtube for my pleasure as much as yours) In my opinion... Triggering Sales Productivity by Understanding Return-on-Effort January 26, 2010 By John Cousineau Categories: General There is much talk these days of a need for better, deeper, integration of marketing and sales. In my view, it’s desperately needed, but must be done in ways that address the underlying reason why executives are demanding it – they want a higher return on investment (ROI) from marketing and sales.... Employee Engagement – a Core Goal of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption ? January 25, 2010 By Jon Husband Categories: General IT Staffing Solutions Web 2.0 By now, reams have been written about the possibilities offered by the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities. The interest continues to grow as the daily use of the Web at work approaches ubiquity. Also, reams have been written about why the engagement of knowledge-work employees is a central... Survey says - One-Third of IT Employers Plan to Increase Hiring in 2010 January 22, 2010 By Charlie Bess Categories: General IT Staffing Solutions CareerBuilder conducted their annual hiring forecast and the perspective is that IT organizations are optimistic about their future and plan to begin to invest in the growth in 2010. Their forecast reveals that nearly one-third (32%) of IT employers plan to increase the number of full-time,... For those of you not at CES 2010 - Poynt for iPhone January 21, 2010 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Expect Poynt for iPhone to be available for download by the end of the Month. Notice the "no touch" calling feature. Multiplied Media is the developer of the Poynt application and is one the RES Free Thinking Top 10 in 10 Tech Picks. Also last week Multiplied Media announced: - new local gas station... Access Management and Protecting the Network January 19, 2010 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: 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... Patient Centered Care and the Healthcare Ecosystem January 13, 2010 By Michael Martineau Categories: General eHealth One of my favourite keynote speeches at the annual eHealth conference was delivered several years ago in Quebec City by Andre Picard, the Globe and Mail reporter. He spoke in layman’s terms about the need for electronic health records and made, what I felt, were some excellent points about the need... The Scientific Advantage of Improving Sales Productivity January 11, 2010 By John Cousineau Categories: General Improving the productivity of an existing sales team holds enormous promise for new competitive advantages. A recent HBR article on the New Science of Sales Productivity hints at the scope of the achievable. The authors provide a useful comparison of two approaches to achieving an 80% growth in... Teachers’ Presence January 10, 2010 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Online Education and MBAs Having studied at an online university for the past couple years and now in a class where e-learning is a main theme, I'm becoming increasingly familiar with the challenges of engendering successful learning via online mechanisms. e-Learning can take many forms, but it seems to often rely heavily on... 4th wave of computing perspectives for 2010 January 8, 2010 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I was asked about my perspective on the future of business computing for an upcoming HP article. In prepartation for the interview, I pulled together a 'stream of conciousness" set of notes that I thought I'd pass along, based on the questions that they were going to ask me. We eventually talked... The Personalization of Knowledge Work in the Interconnected Era January 7, 2010 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 Wireless The brief post set out below (The Personal Enterprise) comes from Peter Kim, Managing Director of the Dachis Group. It reminded me of the many times I have written about the personalization of knowledge work, or the mass customization of knowledge work. It should also be a brief bit of additional... Call for Papers - AHIC 2010 *Deadline Extended to Jan 11, 2010* January 6, 2010 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth National Institutes of Health Informatics - AHIC 2010: Advances in Health Informatics Conference - Call for Papers is Open! The First Virtual Health Informatics Conference in Canada This inaugural Canadian conference will be held April 28 -30, 2010 at the University of Waterloo's Health Sciences... Electronic trading and the business by wire January 4, 2010 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Many times when I am talking about "Business by Wire" and how the new computing capabilities will be used to define new levels of business value generation, I use electronic trading as an example. In the upcoming MIT Technology Review there is an article titled Trading Shares in Milliseconds that is... Please select a category:
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