August 22, 2008 7:08 PM
Posted by: JohnWilder
IT Policy,
Web 2.0This is another great example of why IT in Advertising is unique. One of the biggest challenges facing us in Advertising is educating our users, a group of marketing and creative executives, in the new world of digital media. When you've got a group of individuals who desparately need to learn...
August 18, 2008 3:54 PM
Posted by: JohnWilder
Backup,
Disaster Preparedness/Recovery,
StorageAs Hurricane Fay approaches the Florida today, we're rapidly making plans to insure our Sarasota office is prepared. This is something of a new twist for us, because Upstate NY companies typically don't have to worry too much about hurricanes. One thing our preparations have highlighted is our data...
August 13, 2008 2:46 AM
Posted by: JohnWilder
Blogging,
IT departmentWhen I started this blog several months ago, I did so with the premise that IT in the Advertising business was a somewhat unique niche. I suggested that the people and the nature of our business, our use of two platforms, and our insatiable need for bandwidth and disk space make our version of IT...
August 7, 2008 5:13 PM
Posted by: JohnWilder
IT department,
VirtualizationYesterday wasn't a great day in my migration to the Mac platform. I was doing a couple things yesterday which seemed to present some challenges for a dual-platform machine, and it highlighted some of the difficulties this presents. While these difficulties are manageable (but no less frustrating)...
August 4, 2008 8:33 PM
Posted by: JohnWilder
Blogging,
IT department,
IT PolicyWe had an interesting post on our company blog (internal) today. It was a very negative post regarding Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac. We're not particularly heavy users of PowerPoint on the Mac platform, so I'm not terribly concerned about the perceptions regarding this particular product,...
August 4, 2008 1:15 AM
Posted by: JohnWilder
IT department,
Macintosh,
Microsoft Windows,
VirtualizationAs I mentioned in my previous post I'm in the midst of migrating to a MacBook Pro for my day-to-day computer, and virtualization is a big part of my making the move. I'm running VMWare's Fusion, and it's helping make the transition easier by keeping some of my Windows apps close by. As a company,...
