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As part of the launch events for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, there are a number of Community Connection Events happening across the country in 14 cities. My colleague, Rick, does a great job of explaining in detail what
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Less than a week to go - are you ready? Sunday morning at 2 am, those of us in Canada and the US will forward our clocks, get an extra hour of waking daylight time, and save money on electricity. There an bound to be a few hiccups - alarm clocks that
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This is the next interview in the continuing conversation series with Kelly Gotlieb. In a recent dialogue with me, Kelly shared these thoughts: “There is no doubt that there is a current shortage of persons with computer and communication skills. Further,
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This is the next interview in the continuing series of Computing Canada’s (CC ) Blogged Down (BD) which is featured here “first” in the Canadian IT Managers (CIM) forum. In this podcast, we talk with computing pioneer and CIPS Fellow ( FCIPS ), Calvin
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I participated in a survey and two focus group sessions sponsored by the SHRC and CATA. My lasting impressions: there’s a “right” skills shortage now and insufficient numbers to meet our future demands around 2010. This is a serious situation since Canada
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The Challenge of Declining Computer Science Enrollment I participated in a special meeting with the largest computer societies globally where CIPS [Canada’s association and community of IT professionals] received an invitation. It is interesting how there
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As an IT manager with an eye on the executive suite, you need to keep abreast of economic conditions and future trends. This comes from my experience in both of these roles and as a board director. In reading the latest McKinsey report, I found it is
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I have just finished reading a great article that Pamela Slim has written entitled "Open letter to CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CFOs across the corporate world" . As an IT manager or CIO I think that Pamela has some great points to really address how to keep
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There are those special industry voices that need to be heard in our forum. They provide great insights and create a wonderful context for their views. I just finished an interview with Patricia MacInnis, Editor of Computing Canada. However her recent
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This is the final podcast in a series that is running in the Globe and Mail. These podcasts address some great topics dealing with Productivity in the Canadian market. The previous podcast addressed Collaboration , this final discussion is around IT Security
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There is a series of podcasts that are running in the Globe and Mail from now until March 13th. These podcasts address some great topics dealing with Productivity in the Canadian market. Last week's podcast addressed IT Security and Productivity , this
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I was talking with Laura Chappell about useful security tips since she "lives and breathes" security. As a bit of background, last year, she received the international Award for Professionalism founded by the NPA and given out at the Interop Conference
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There is a series of podcasts that are running in the Globe and Mail from now until March 13th. These podcasts address some great topics dealing with Productivity in the Canadian market. Last week's podcast addressed Business Intelligence , this week's
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We have talked about AJAX and ATLAS a couple of times already in this blog, but I thought I would include a link to a podcast that Burton Group published talking about AJAX. Burton Group, the only IT research firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise
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There is a series of podcasts that are running in the Globe and Mail from now until March 13th. These podcasts address some great topics dealing with Productivity in the Canadian market. Last week's podcast addressed Business Process Automation , this
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