March 15, 2012 4:24 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
book review,
Kevin Sheridan,
manager,
remote,
virtual,
workI am reading a book titled The Virtual Manager, which is about how to hire, train, motivate and retain people who work from home or remote offices instead of in a cubicle farm where you can watch them all day. It's a pretty...
December 19, 2011 12:22 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
budget,
client,
consultant,
consulting,
David Hoppe,
deal,
Donald Trump,
IT,
Jimmy Buffett,
Matt Heuser,
negotiate,
pricing decisions,
professional,
programming,
self-employed,
sell,
selling,
services,
workThe Art of the Deal is the title of a book by Donald Trump. I am not endorsing this book, which I haven't read. I am, however, endorsing the concept embodied in its title, because for an IT consultant, which you may either be...
July 25, 2011 2:29 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
Boulder,
city,
colorado,
country,
Jackson,
Oklahoma,
Portland,
programmer,
rural,
Seattle,
Washington,
workI asked a bunch of people this question and got a bunch of different answers. Here are some of them:
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July 18, 2011 3:18 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
China,
find,
India,
job,
outsource,
programming,
skills,
Switzerland,
travel,
U.S.,
work,
world,
ZimbabweWhat brought this up was a job feeler I just got from someone I first met during a trip to New Delhi. There, and in other major Indian cities, especially Bangalore, IT talent and phone support people who speak "American English" competently are getting hard to find. So his proposal was that I come...
June 22, 2011 9:47 AM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
career,
Google News,
hiring,
investment,
IT,
jobs,
online,
opportunities,
Scottrade,
St. Louis,
workThis week I got an emailed press release titled, Career Opportunities Available at Scottrade, a Best Place to Work in IT, that went on to say,...
June 15, 2011 5:13 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
B2B,
Biznik,
business,
consulting,
entrepreneur,
F2F,
LinkedIn,
local,
together,
workI've gotten work through LinkedIn. So have many of my friends. But there's another site that's become at least as valuable as LinkedIn to small entrepreneurs: Biznik.
April 25, 2011 4:01 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
career,
computers,
electric cars,
employment,
ethics,
EV,
health care,
IT,
programming,
real time,
workBruce's imposing title is Chief Evangelist, Rational Software, IBM. He's given us a list of five IT career fields you may not have thought about checking out -- and that others, too, may have overlooked -- but are likely to display massive...
April 20, 2011 5:44 PM
Posted by: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
California,
Cupertino,
employment,
engineers,
hire,
hiring,
IT,
jobs,
management,
marketing,
sales,
SugarCRM,
workI don't know if you're familiar with SugarCRM. It is a company based in Cupertino, Calif. that develops open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
