IT Blog How do you tweet? I'm supposed to tweet for work, but I don't. Now I believe I know why. According to two CIOs who do, David Buckholtz and Ralph Loura, tweeting requires first, "a moment" that drives home the benefits, and second, the will to form a new habit. The two were featured in a recent web...
IT Blog How do you tweet? I'm supposed touse Twitterfor work, but I don't. Now I believe I know why. According to two CIOs who do, David Buckholtz and Ralph Loura, tweeting requires first, "a moment" that drives home the benefits, and second, the will to form a new habit. The two were featured in a rec...
IT Blog How do you tweet? I'm supposed touse Twitterfor work, but I don't. Now I believe I know why. According to two CIOs who do, David Buckholtz and Ralph Loura, tweeting requires first, "a moment" that drives home the benefits, and second, the will to form a new habit. The two were featured in a rec...
IT Blog ZL Technologies Inc. sent out a notice today that its lawsuit against analyst firm Gartner has been dismissed. In a statement, CEO Kon Leong said: ZL believes that Gartners overwhelming influence on large corporations purchasing decisions, and its inaccurate ratings, including its bias in fav...
IT Blog This week marks Twitter's fifth birthday. It's a precocious 5-year-old, in that it has done in half a decade what most companies need 20 years to accomplish: become an integral part of our everyday lexicon, leaving some early adopters wondering how to even practice executive networking the old-fashi...
IT Blog "Social [media] is like sex -- fun to read about, fun to look at, but to really understand it, you have to do it." How's that for an attention getter? That's how Nigel Fenwick, principal analyst at Forrester Research, ended his session on social media for the CIO at last week's Forrester IT Forum, ...
IT Blog "Where the CIO should report is a question as old as the CIO role itself," says John Van Decker, analyst with Gartner Inc. Shoot, it's a stale question even for a reporter who has been covering CIO careers for five years. But data on the topic, whether from Gartner or Forrester Research or the Soc...
IT Blog It took a lot of coaxing to get me to start using Twitter. It wasn't that I didnt want to join. It wasn't because I didnt understand it. I just didnt get it. I didnt see what the big deal was. To be frank, I didnt think I could keep up with the twit-chat. I barely update my Facebook p...
IT Blog Ive succumbed to the call of the tweet. In the Web 2.0 checklist of the best, I can add Twitter to the short list with the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn and Yammer. And although the novelty still lingers, the whole thing seems like a lot of work. But is this constant connectivity beneficial i...
IT Blog An end to information overload may be in sight. Call me late to the party (or perhaps nave!), but I think Im starting to make social media work for me, and not in the way you might think. This is what Im talking about: Lets start with using Twitter. I signed up not to tweet (although I ...
IT Blog Businesses so know they need to track what customers are saying about them on social media and networkingsites. Tracking customer sentiment online can contain, if not prevent, the damage inflicted by the misbegotten ad campaign that strikes a sour note, or a passenger's musical rant that goes vira...
IT Blog Ten minutes after filing a story on the virtues of an enterprise project management office, I got a call from a CIO Id gotten to know over the years informing me that he had been fired. On a Friday afternoon. No explanations given, except that his position was being eliminated. The company in que...
IT Blog An army of technology vendors is scrambling to sell you enterprise social media platforms, as I discovered in my reporting for a pair of stories on SearchCIO.com this week on enterprise collaboration. These platforms aim to add a social element to business applications, either "layered" over the man...
IT Blog OK, OK, enough with calling Apple's new tablet computer the "iTampon." The name "iPad" is worth a giggle, maybe, but one of the top-trending topics on Twitter? Please. Let's put our adult hats on and move forward in our discussions of the iPad, namely: Does this device have a future as an enterprise...
IT Blog How much pressure are CIOs feeling to deliver the proverbial more with less? At a lunch yesterday of IT and business executives in Madison, Wis., the strain was palpable. So was a creeping weariness with the do-more-with-less strategy thats been the boast of every hotshot CIO since ITs own eco...
IT Blog If you read Professor Jonathan Zittrains rebuttal on cloud computing to Bernard Golden at CIO.com today, you know that both agree that privacy is the No. 1 concern for cloud computing. Compliance officers have to worry about more than just privacy, of course, but protecting the private informatio...
IT Blog We've scoured the Web and compiled a crib sheet for the best and most interesting tidbits from around the IT blogosphere last week, including thoughts on the release date of Windows 8, the risks to info security when companies lost IT talent and how to make sure that you stay connected when the powe...
IT Blog This afternoon, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the release of its new policy for the secure use of social media. The policy officially recognizes that "Internet capabilities are integral to operations across the Department of Defense" and formalizes the use of collaborative technology by ...
social media, Department of Defense, social media policy IT Blog Salesforce.com has announced that it has developed a collaboration platform that brings social networking into the enterprise -- Salesforce Chatter. And for the more than 60,000 Salesforce.com customers, Chatter should be something to talk about. Chatter will compete against Lotus Notes and ShareP...
IT Blog When I saw the pictures of Lehman Brothers employees leaving the New York headquarters with cardboard boxes of belongings and dressed down in weekend wear, I wondered if there were IT people among them. Was the guy in the Bermuda shorts a trader or a database administrator? Everybody looks the same ...
IT Blog This year, I approached the annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston with a specific question: Can an organization in a regulated industry adopt enterprise social software and remain compliant? I received a range of answers, depending upon whether I talked to vendors, end users, analysts or CIOs....
Andrew McAfee, Web 2.0, Social Enterprise IT Blog There was a lot of talk about teaming at the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz. Two keynotes addressed why teamwork is important -- but not just any old teamwork. Technology, business conditions, the economy, the weather -- shoot, the whole world -- is changing so fast that whats n...
IT Blog "A day at the beach can turn into a hurricane fast." That's the tagline Sarah Cortes chose for Inman TechnologyIT, her Cambridge, Massachusetts-based consultancy. What's the context? Disaster recovery, security and preparation for IT compliance audits. I met Cortes at a meeting of the New England...
Information Systems Audit and Control Association, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Standard IT Blog Years ago I added an addition to my first house. After my second child arrived, we had simply run out of room and decided it was easier to expand our current living space rather than trying to find a bigger one. Plans were drawn up, work scheduled and money deposited. Two days before the first shove...
Regulatory Compliance, regulatory, compliance IT Blog Todays social networking environment is interesting from a variety of perspectives. Theres the security aspect, of course. Folks have to be careful not to divulge too much information, such as: Hey! Were on vacation in beautiful [insert location here]! This is the equival...
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