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- TR's Hot Topics: Hurricane recovery, reboot loops, flame wars
- TECHREPUBLIC COMMUNITY NETNOTE NEWSLETTER for September 27, 2005TR'S HOT TOPICS: HURRICANE RECOVERY, REBOOT LOOPS, FLAME WARS This week's lessons from the TechRepublic community: IT hardware doesn't shake off a hurricane as easily as IT pros; employees openly expect IT to clean up their security messes; starting fires (in discussion...
- Tags: Bob Artner, community netnote, feedback, Hot Topics, Hurricane Recovery, microsoft, networking, newsletter, novell, religion, security, TechRepublic Inc., The Trivia Geek
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
- Remembering Bob Artner
- Remembering Bob ArtnerTechRepublic lost one of its greatest proponents this week with the unexpected passing of Bob Artner. Many TechRepublic members will remember Bob as the author of the popular "Artner's Law" column and the voice of many of TechRepublic's audiocasts. And Bob was also a common speaker for many...
- Tags: Jason Hiner
- Discussion threads 2005-09-22
- Messaging: What's next for e-mail, IM, and voice messaging?
- When we think about messaging for the enterprise, is theglass half full or half empty? Optimists can point to the introduction of newhandhelds that integrate voice mail, e-mail and calendaring, the maturity ofVOIP technology, and new developments in text messaging and RSS readers.Pessimists point to the continuing deluge of spam,...
- Tags: Bob Artner, convergence, e-mail, IM, messaging
- Technical articles 2005-04-19
- Five IT headlines you won't see in 2005
- For some reason, the beginning of the year brings out thecloset prognosticator in many of us, resulting in entirely too manyNostradamus-wannabes unleashing their predictions on an unsuspecting public.IÂ’ll confess to being guilty of doing the same, safe in the knowledge that noone would actually check up to see how my...
- Tags: Bob Artner, IÂ'm, information technology, RSS, spam
- Technical articles 2005-01-12
- Perseverance: Being an agent of change
- For many IT managers, our professional lives are confronted with a never-ending series of crises. Each day brings a new challenge, and it can often seem that our primary job is to keep chaos from engulfing our operations.When your department is struggling to keep its head above water, you need...
- Tags: agent, true leadership, inertia, Bob Artner, leadership
- Technical articles 2003-08-21
- Your thoughts on the challenge of toxic negativity
- As a columnist, I rarely know for sure which topics I write about will evoke a strong reaction from you. I can guess, of course, but what I try to do is write about topics that I'm interested in, and hope that you are interested in them as well.Sometimes, I...
- Tags: Bob Artner, negativity, toxic negativity
- Technical articles 2003-08-07
- Run away from toxic negativity before you're infected too
- One of the few good science fiction movies to come out back when I was growing up was “The Andromeda Strain.” Based on the Michael Crichton novel, the movie follows a small group of scientists struggling to contain a modern plague caused by a satellite that crashed in a small...
- Tags: Bob Artner, Haines, negativity, Thompson, toxic negativity
- Technical articles 2003-07-24
- It's still the people, stupid!
- Someone once said, “Being a pundit means never having to say you’re sorry.” In other words, if you’re paid just to express your opinions, then you don’t have to deal with the consequences if your opinion turns out to have been wrong.I’m not sure I buy that (who’s going to...
- Tags: Bob Artner, excellence, information technology, IT Labor
- Technical articles 2003-07-10
- Justify your salary--and your job--by adding value
- Let's talk about job security. There isn't any. The technology boom is long over, and most of us have had to endure one or more rounds of layoffs at our companies. In fact, not a few of us have been laid off and have had to start over somewhere else....
- Tags: job, Value at Risk, Bob Artner, knowledge
- Technical articles 2003-06-26
- Prepare now to be the IT manager of the future
- We here at TechRepublic don’t spend a lot of time looking at what technology is going to be like five or 10 or 20 years from now. We abstain from such prognostications for a few reasons, including:We’re not very good at it.Nobody else is good at it either (or else...
- Tags: Bob Artner, information technology
- Technical articles 2003-06-12
- What are rogue IT projects trying to tell you?
- Let’s assume that you run an IT department or, perhaps, the whole IT organization. It follows that you control all the technology projects, choosing the platforms, monitoring performance, and authorizing spending.Right?Well, not exactly. In lots of organizations, many technology projects and significant spending are actually controlled by business units, who...
- Tags: Bob Artner, information technology, IT Project
- Technical articles 2003-05-29
- A prescription for 'performance plateau'
- “Performance plateau” refers to the condition when a formerly hard-charging employee or manager stops making progress. Previously, the employee in question was on a fast track, always excelling and looking for new challenges. Now he or she is content to coast. In my previous column on this topic, I gave...
- Tags: performance, job, Bob Artner, new job
- Technical articles 2003-05-15
- Diagnosing 'performance plateau'
- Most managers have heard of the Peter Principle, which states that people rise in an organization until they reach their level of incompetence. And while the Peter Principle has turned into a cliche over the years, it certainly contains an element of truth. If anything has reduced the relevance of...
- Tags: Bob Artner, performance, Peter Principle
- Technical articles 2003-05-01
- Break down big projects into manageable pieces
- As I’ve said more than once lately, these are difficult times for most IT managers. Odds are you don’t have enough staff or enough budget, but you have no shortage of responsibilities. You spend a lot of time trying to keep your people motivated, while attempting to extend the lifetime...
- Tags: Bob Artner, Butch, cliff, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Sundance Kid
- Technical articles 2003-04-17
- Don't bet more than you can afford to lose
- All of us like to flatter ourselves into thinking that our careers have been the result of careful planning and that we regularly sit down and map out the next few steps in some master strategy. Would that it were so.In this column, I want to concentrate on a potential...
- Tags: Julius, Daniel
- Technical articles 2003-04-03
- Your friend the corporate attorney (no, seriously!)
- When I decided that I wanted to write this column about lawyers, it was amazing how many lawyer jokes popped into my head. When I mentioned to a colleague my idea for this column, she told me a couple of good ones I hadn’t heard before. (We here at TechRepublic...
- Tags: HUMAN RESOURCES, law firm
- Technical articles 2003-03-20
- Here are Bob's top 10 pet peeves: What are yours?
- No two IT managers are alike, so no two have the same management style, the same skills, and the same weaknesses. We managers work in different-size organizations, in different industries, and have differing levels of experience.We do have one thing in common, however. Each of us has a list in...
- Tags: e-mail
- Technical articles 2003-03-06
- Calling all blogs!
- In the past year or so, Web logs or blogs have really taken off. The availability of free or low-cost Web hosting, combined with the proliferation of easy-to-use tools such as Blogger and Movable Type, has put personal Web publishing within reach of anyone with a Web connection.As you might...
- Tags: blog, Bob Artner, Phil Windley, Scripting News, technology blog
- Technical articles 2003-03-11
- Improve morale and productivity with an employee portal
- The past couple years have been tough for those of us working in the technology sector, and it doesn’t appear to be getting any easier. Capital spending budgets have been slashed, new hires deferred, and in many cases salary freezes and layoffs implemented. At the same time, the pressure to...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, portal, employee portal
- Technical articles 2003-02-20
- Identify your IT partners and then work on building their loyalty
- When trying to determine whether the firms that supply your IT organizations with goods and services should be “vendors” or “partners,” you’ve got to understand your needs. If you just want a firm that can reliably supply the lowest-cost product, you want a vendor. On the other hand, if you...
- Tags: Bob Artner, courier service, information technology, partnership
- Technical articles 2003-02-06
