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Stuart Crawford (Calgary, Alberta) IT Professionals are a strange and unusual bunch. I know - I have been one for a number of years, almost 12 years working as an IT Professional in many different lines of work across many different industries. I started
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As an IT Professional who has worked in the industry collecting a salary for over 17 years (man I am dating myself) I am psyched to have a job where I have an opportunity to connect with students who have already made a commitment to train and work within
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Stuart Crawford (Calgary, Alberta) Are you excited about what the future has in store for us? Or are you one of those types that chose to run and hide when the hiccups occur? There is a tremendous amount f change occurring in today’s flat,
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I've been on the road now for 6 weeks - connecting with IT Professionals and IT Managers across the country (literally - St.John's to Vancouver). One of the questions that come up in almost every stop over the last 3 years of working on this team has
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Today is World Teacher's Day . If you have never heard of this it is a UNESCO backed day to "represent a significant token of the awareness, understanding and appreciation displayed for the vital contribution that teachers make to education and development."
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Rodney talked about his vacation and fishing in Winnipeg in a previous blog post . Now, not all IT Pro Advisors go fishing. In fact some of us actually continue to be geeks even while on vacation!! That's not to say that geekiness is all that my vacation
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Hello my name is Rodney and I am hooked on Facebook. At first I wasn't keen on Facebook but everyone I work with was doing it. I signed up and at first it was cool, I could add people I work with as friends, "poke" them, and laugh at their silly high
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With all the tours, Energize IT and other travel out of the way for a few weeks I had a chance last week to catch up on some reading. I came across a lot of articles on a new law enacted in parts of the US and being considered here in Canada by some .
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So Apple released Safari for Windows to public beta (a new OSX version too of course) and listed a dozen reasons why I am going to love it. Now I use IE7 roughly 90% of the time with Firefox filling the other 10% because there are some very cool extensions
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I have to say I am a curious individual. If I was a cat, I'd probably be dead, but I am not a cat and I have a blog. So I am curious about what you think about certain things and because of this I have created a new category on this blog called Commentary
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There I said it. USER GROUPS ARE DEAD! You probably think I am crazy. You are probably thinking about the 30+ IT pro user groups in Canada with 10,000+ members with monthly attendance at meetings surpassing 2500 nationally. You might then remember me
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