Three Tips on Choosing the Right Technical Book
After my advice on self-training employees a few days ago, some folks asked me how to pick the right technical books for their situation. Valid question, because popular topics may have a shelf-full of books to choose from. How do you find yours? Try these three tips.
Three Options for Employee Self Training
I know people who used to make a fat living off training, but that train has slowed if not derailed. Well, not the “Train of Knowledge” all employees need to do their job better, but the gravy train of fat training contracts and fatter per diem checks for traveling around the country.
Career Watch: Asking for training when money is tight
The author of 'The Career Coward's Guide to Career Advancement' discusses how to get your company to provide training, even during the recession.
Enter to win a Cisco training course worth $3,495
Cisco Subnet welcomes Global Knowledge Training as a contributor to Cisco Subnet. In honor of this partnership, Global Knowledge is offering a free Cisco training course worth up to $3,495 to be given away to one lucky reader.
Marketing IT: Sell services internally, win respect
It's almost a cliché that the first item cut in a slow economy is training. Not for Ben Berry at the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). The frugal CIO has hired consulting firm Ouellette & Associates Inc. (O&A) to host a workshop this fall for his direct reports and IT staffers throughout the state government. The topic: marketing the value of IT.
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claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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