Data wranglers, your time has come. But you knew that already. It seems like every day we’re hearing about a new startup or solution aimed at making sense of the mass of data organizations must process.

But that doesn’t mean everyone’s clear on all the options. Like NoSQL. Yeah, it’s a big deal, used by a lot of big data companies, but why, exactly?  Making Sense of NoSQL, a recent e-book from Manning Publications, aims to answer that question and others. We’ve got an excerpt of it up on our IT Bookworm blog right now.

Want the whole thing? Just submit your data management story in our Open IT Forum. We’ll choose our ‘favorite’ scenario (note: we’re not taking pleasure in your pain) and award the prize.

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It's like this, except with books instead of gold and possibly fewer pirates.

Ok, so we’re going to make you work a little bit for them, but not too hard, I promise.

All you need to do to get a free copy of one of the below books is:

• Ask and/or Answer three (3) quality questions tagged “Networking in 2010″. Here, I’ll even give you a link to the current questions. If you’re answering, the questions should be unanswered.
• Agree to do a review to be featured on the Bookworm Blog.

As you can tell by the current state of Michael’s laptop, we’ve recently received some spanking new IT Knowledge Exchange stickers and we’d like to send them to you, our steadfast question-askers. The rules are simple: Ask a question in the community, then send me an e-mail with:

• Link to the question

• Your preferred mailing address

We’ll mail you a free IT Knowledge Exchange sticker. There is no limit to the number of stickers you can receive, but the questions must be quality ones (well-tagged, properly titled and detailed).

Thanks!

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