First Rule of Knowledge Workers: The Professional is Personal

One common theme I hear from “social media experts” is to make sure and keep your personal business out of the professional image you create for yourself online. Many people have come to interpret that as keeping separate profiles for their personal life and their professional life. This could be a mistake. Typically the argument…

Use eRazer to Wipe Drive?

Image via Wikipedia Craig Ball has a review of a small tool called the WiebeTech Drive eRazer , which is a relatively small, easy to use, device that wipes a hard drive and overwrites it with zeroes. While there are better, and even free, tools available to accomplish the same result when you want to…

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Maybe they Should Title the Comments "Why Everyone Hates IT"

Why Does IT Hate Facebook and Twitter. The article itself really doesn’t shed much light on why, it just throws out some numbers about the number of IT departments that block them, etc. The comments, on the other hand, are a treasure trove of why people hate their IT departments. A sampling (with my comments…

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Information Management isn’t just for Compliance

At least according to an HP global survey. A global survey undertaken by HP found that less than half of business decision-makers have a high confidence level in the quality and accessibility of information within their organisations. The survey, and the linked article seem very focused on the need to retrieve information as part of…