Our goal here is to help spread the knowledge, and we’re doing that by giving away free IT books! We’ll be posting an array of questions for you to pick from and answer. Post the link to your answer in the giveaway’s discussion area and the book is yours!

This week’s giveaway is Michael Miller’s Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online.

Check back in IT Answers each Monday for a new IT giveaway.

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Dee101.

This is the current—and hastily organized—state of Michael’s desk. Help him out? If you want some sweet IT books, head over to IT Answers and get to answering. See a question tagged Windows 7 in 2010 and know the answer? Give it your best shot then send me an email at Melanie@ITKnowledgeExchange.com or send us a message @ITKE with the link to the question, and you’ll get to take your pick of Michael’s deskmates. We’re giving five away, so get started!

Some titles to get you excited:

A Practical Guide to Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux 5th ed. (Full Fedora on DVD)

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors and Shell Programming 2nd ed.

Securing the Borderless Network: Security for the Web 2.0 World

Cisco Unified Computing (UCS)

CCIE Professional Development: Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

Cloud Computing: Web-based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online

VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere

Melanie Yarbrough is the assistant community editor at ITKnowledgeExchange.com. Follow her on Twitter or send her an email at Melanie@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.

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.

We’ve even got 3 chances for you to win a free copy*! Simply ask or answer a Unified Communications question between now and next Wednesday, e-mail me and I’ll send copies to the best question, best answer, and a volunteer reviewer. If you volunteer to review the book, you don’t even need to ask a question: Just e-mail me and let me know!

Good luck, and congrats again to Tony for a stellar publication.

*Some shipping restrictions apply.

See something you like below? Simply answer 5 questions and let me know and I’ll ship you out a copy. Don’t know much? Fine: If you agree to review the book we send you, we’ll also send you a copy. Two ways to save! And how else are you going to get a free copy of the CCNA 640-802 Network Simulator, a $135 value?

• Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
• CCNA 640-802 Network Simulator
• Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide: Field-Tested Solutions For Everyday Problems
• PM Crash Course for IT Professionals
• A Practical Guide to Linux: Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
• Cloud Computing: Web Based Applications that Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online
• Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
• Networking, second edition, by Jeffrey S. Beasley

Didn’t win? Check out our book guide for a free chapter download and stay tuned to the community blog for more chances to win.

Some rules apply (winners must have a shipping address in North America, United Kingdom or Western Europe), but we’ll have other opportunities for a free copy soon!

• Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide: Field-Tested Solutions for Everyday Problems, 2nd Edition
• VMware VS and vSphere SDK
• PM Crash Course for IT Professionals

If you have a U.S. mailing address and would be willing to write an informative, creative review of the above books, let us know and if we like your idea (even just a straight-forward review!), we’ll ship you a free copy, yours to keep.

Leave a message in the comments with the book you’d like, or e-mail me directly at Michael@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.

“Troubleshooting,” Chapter 17 of the book Network Know-How shows you tools and methods that will help you identify and solve most network problems. Consider using the techniques in this chapter as a guide to logical problem-solving processes. The steps in this tutorial address computer connection problems in Windows, Macintosh, or Linux/Unix operating system as well as on the network itself.

Visit the article on SearchNetworking.com for more information on the chapter, as well as the full chapter text and links to download a PDF version.

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Drop by to download a sample chapter and explore the related resources on the same subject. The first chapter is available and ready for you to download.

So take a moment to visit and leave a comment. I want to know what topics and books you’d most like to see highlighted on IT Bookworm Blog. I can’t make any promises – but I’ll certainly keep my eyes peeled and try to find books of interest based on the feedback I receive from members.

Thanks!

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