Thing one is finally getting to plan out the details of my trip to San Francisco in October. I’ve got the Summation Certified Trainer Workshop Oct 8-11, but it looks like I’ll be staying a bit longer than that, catching the redeye out of town on Saturday night the 13th. That should give me a full couple of days…
I got the opportunity to cover a women’s networking event this week, and I learned a few things. The event was to have a VIP autograph/photo session with the keynote speaker, Eddie George. Unfortunately, his plane was delayed which messed up the timing for this. The event planner decided to do the main program at…
Neville Hobson posted something interesting over the weekend, and Shel Holtz added some further thoughts to the discussion today, about the number of companies who have simply blocked access to Facebook and other social networking sites. I think they cover some of the objections to this pretty clearly, but I want to focus on a…
I downloaded Flock, the “Social Browser”, last night and have been playing with it a bit to see how it works. In terms of being a “social” browser, it definitely is that, with the blogging, photo uploading, RSS feeds and other social network plug-ins incorporated directly in to the browser. On the other hand, I haven’t…
I read with interest the post by Security Monkey today about swatting flies, not because I don’t agree with him about his point, but his example really brought to mind another of my pet peeves about working in IT generally, but Help Desk specifically. Let’s start with his example: Your help desk reports to you…
When I first read about G.ho.st the other day, the system admin part of me wondered if an on-line virtual computer could be the end of blocking IM, web-mail and social networking, because anyone with a little smarts could figure out to go to the VM, login, and use that to “browse” to all the…