I saw this post over at Kevin O’Keefe’s this morning and realized that there was one sentence that really jumped out at me about social networking, because it’s something I don’t think a lot of people realize. Social media is not something to do ‘when you have some time’ – make time for it or…
Last week, in the second rule, I talked about how, when management is pushing for you to account for every minute of those 40 hours a week, it’s tempting to give them exactly that, and nothing more. The third rule could also be called, why you shouldn’t do that! No matter what your employer does,…
In the first post in this series, we talked about how the line between our professional lives, and our personal lives, have really been forever blurred. Today, I want to expound on that to talk to employers about why it might be less efficient to hold employees to the 40 hour demand. Now, when I…
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…
That’s one of the recommendations Doug Cornelius makes in various discussions around the blogosphere about poor communication between “geeks” and “users”. (Start here at 3 geeks and a Law Blog, which links to Jenn Steele’s original post and read the comments on both for the background.) Doug’s claim that the problem with help desk tickets…
Image via CrunchBase This is my first attempt at using Zemanta, a Firefox Extension that hooks into your blog’s compose page and suggests related multimedia and related blog articles to what you are currently writing about. From the description I think there’s definitely some intriguing possibilities here, in terms of adding additional value to a…