In IT, a trainer typically commands a higher rate since they tend to wear many hats. Instructional & Curriculum Designer, Technical Writer, Systems tester, Administrator, Project Manager and Trainer, can all be part of a...
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"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." —Ronald Reagan This life-long—and quite...
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I didn't know you could have repeat clients. Is this a norm? Thanks! Separately, stating my rate has always been pretty challenging for me. I know there are some seasoned consultants who have this to a science. I'm guess...
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I'm surprised telcos have been so late to the cloud game (as compared to, say, Amazon). Many have been offering hosting services for a long time, and all of them have been sitting on top of high-scale data-center and network...
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I'd be curious to know where those "cost" and "payback" (ROI) stats are coming from. These are two key stats that would presumably determine project priority, but if IT is relying on the requesting business units to supply...
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I welcome this with open arms. Managing passwords has become exhausting and frustrating. I can never remember which variation of which password I've used for which site, and resetting a password every time makes it that...
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I thought #5 was interesting. Cutting your fee by more than a third is pretty drastic. Have other IT consultants found similar savings by working remotely?
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It's interesting how easily Facebook posts elicit the snarkier side of humanity. Maybe we simply need a forgive button, that would let us to practice forgiveness instead of scorn whenever someone decides to post something...
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Healthcare organizations that are cued up and ready to go on Meaningful Use stage 2 can do so under the new rules and will be rewarded by getting incentives sooner than other healthcare providers. The main effect of the...
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Thanks for sharing your experiences -- and the dilemma facing government records archivists. Given the immense volumes of records generating daily, it is impossible to comprehend how individuals could sort through...
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The Shrug button says, "I could barely work up the energy to click this button, your post is so boring"
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CIOs will always face a yin and yang dllemma between the need for information access and the need to keep that information secure. Walling off corporations from mobile dangers at the expense of productive uses of mobile...
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Fair enough, but you and I both know the "older" crowd is usually resistant to change and often unwilling to compromise on evolving trends. Their experience becomes their own worst enemy as they flaunt it as a means...
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This must come as a letdown to those who had been pushing hard to be ready for Stage 2 -- and were in fact ready to attest to the new standards already. They're out there and they must feel a little foolish for having worked...
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This issue has likely "blown over" as far as the general public is concerned. Will businesses have a longer memory for it, in terms of deciding what data services vendors to trust?
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As the bad experience with HealthCare.gov attests, better to delay and get it right than cram it through to meet an arbitrary deadline.
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SaneIT, fair point. I sense most people are generally indifferent to the Snowden revelations -- and that people have come to accept that the information about our lives is an open book - a tradeoff we make for the conveniences...
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As if the prize-money is not incentive enough, DARPA's goal -- development of an automated network defense that can evaluate software, identify patches and deploy them in real time -- is an exciting outcome in its own right....
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The "usability is relative" point is a good one and the advice here is apt. "Ease of use" can get muddled when those selecting the software are more sophisticated than the employees who will be using it.
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