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The six commandments of social networking at work

It can be easy to disregard social networking's professional potential if you're only going on what you see on television. Between endlessly replayed clips where hysterical young men beg everyone to leave Britney Spears alone and the eyebrow-raising antics that a MySpace pinup performs on "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila," it's understandable that many businesspeople are tempted to write off MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter as career-killers and some IT leaders consider pulling the plug on social networking use within the business.

| Opinion | Career | Internet | 07/07/08 at 9:26 pm |

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Profile: Stephen Conley, IT Director, Boston Red Sox

Steve Conley credits his combination of technical and management skills as a marketable combination for an IT Director's job. What he didn't imagine when he first started his career was that he would be heading IT for major league baseball's World Champions!

| Interview | Career | 07/02/08 at 10:35 pm |

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5 Ways to Make Your Company Gen Y-Friendly

Facing a potential onslaught of baby boomer retirements and a smaller pool of Generation X employees to replace them, IT managers who want to create or sustain a Best Place to Work environment will need the additional help of another group of professionals: Generation Y. Also known as Millennials, this group consists of nearly 80 million individuals born roughly between 1979 and 1999. They are the workforce of the future.

| Tip | Business | Career | 06/30/08 at 7:59 pm |

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IT recruitment tainted by 'boring' stigma

A major new study into students' attitudes to careers in IT show a general belief that IT offers well paid work with good prospects, but that it is still not attractive to non-IT graduates.

| Feature | Career | 06/30/08 at 1:49 pm |

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