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- Are unions the answer for government IT workers?
- A TechRepublic member suggested that unions were the only way to go to combat poor pay and bad management in government IT jobs. In response, Ramon Padilla discusses the pros and cons of joining a union in this article. I recently received feedback from a reader who thought my...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Ramon Padilla Jr., Labor relations, Benefits, unionization, bad management, salary, collective bargaining, worker, Government IT Newsletter, Job, Union, Environment, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Technical articles 2005-06-03
Additional Resources
- Forming and Sustaining Online Communities: The Role of Distributed Collective Information Practices
- This paper describes an approach to understanding how online communities form and sustain themselves by focusing attention on distributed collective information practices. Distributed collective information practices are the fundamental human information-related activities, mediated by specific socio-technical constraints and contexts, which frame participation in online communities. Research results from an examination...
- Tags: Information Practice, Open Source
- White papers 2005-10-28
- The Business Value of Web 2.0 Technology - IBM's vision for tapping the collective knowledge of the extended value chain
- Ideas and collaboration are the fuel for innovation, and organizations that can tap into their collective creativity have greater potential to leapfrog the competition. This IBM whitepaper examines the Business Value of Web 2.0 Technology, and details IBM's vision for tapping the collective knowledge of the extended...
- Tags: Web, Knowledge, Value Chain, Vision, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- London Collective (gadget)
- London Collective is a gadget that will add a player for several London internet radio stations in your Vista Sidebar or on your desktop. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Internet Radio, London, London Collective
- Software downloads 2007-12-18
- IEERB Enables Easier, Faster and More Cost-Effective Document Research
- As part of its mandate, the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board IEERB maintains a large collection of documents, including teacher collective bargaining agreements, salary schedules, and IEERB unit determinations and unfair labor practice decisions. The IEERB wanted to move away from their paper-based system and put information directly in the...
- Tags: Document, Computer, RJS Software, IEERB, Productivity, Labor Relations, Human Resources
- Case studies 2007-07-10
- ITIL Must Embrace the Collective
- The change that threatens the OGC (the UK's Office of Government Commerce; owners of ITIL) is the new Internet revolution - Web 2.0, the wisdom of crowds, collective intelligence. It is so new the world has not settled on a name for it yet. It is an emergent characteristic of...
- Tags: Jupitermedia Corp., ITIL, Internet, Process Improvement, It Services, Web 2.0, Open Source, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-10-26
- From Traditional Antivirus to Collective Intelligence: Panda's Technology Evolution
- There is more malware than ever being released in the wild, and antivirus companies relying on signatures to protect users cannot keep up with the pace of creating signatures fast enough. As a result, the current installed base of anti-malware solutions is proving to be much less effective against the...
- Tags: Antivirus, Collective Intelligence, Panda Security, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Gartner research predicts fall in software licensing costs
- Gartner's research predicts that software licensing fees are set to fall in the next decade. An excerpt from Silicon: In a research note, Gartner VP William Snyder said: "Up until now the unique nature of the software market has meant that buyers had very little negotiating...
- Tags: Software, Gartner Inc., Tools & Techniques, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Programming Collective Intelligence: Searching and Ranking
- This paper covers full-text search engines, which allow people to search a large set of documents for a list of words, and which rank results according to how relevant the documents are to those words. Algorithms for full-text searches are among the most important collective intelligence algorithms, and many fortunes...
- Tags: Algorithm, O'Reilly Media Inc., Collective Intelligence, Programming, Full-text Search, Engineering
- Book chapters 2007-08-01
- Unleashing the Power of Collective Knowledge to Improve Support Quality
- Regardless of how sophisticated the IT infrastructure or how efficiently IT manages it, in the eyes of the organization, the perceived value of IT is determined in large part by the quality of user support provided by the IT staff. Users need to get their questions answered and their problems...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Knowledge, Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Business Intelligence, It Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-12-05
- Leveraging Our Collective Sales Experience: Enterprise Sales Enablement and Knowledge Management
- Watch this Web seminar replay discussing best practices to maximize the collective sales assets that reside within your company and to drive consistent execution across the entire sales force. Learn how you can rapidly arm your sales force with compelling, relevant information to: Immediately diffuse customer objections, clearly differentiate your...
- Tags: Knowledge, Sales Force, Siebel Systems Inc., Knowledge Management, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Webcasts
- Clucast (xpi)
- Clucast is a Firefox add-on that offers the wisdom of crowds the collective opinions of people about anything and everything displayed on the Web. The diversity of opinions in a crowd makes the crowd often more right than any single expert. In his eloquent book entitled The Wisdom of Crowds,...
- Tags: Web, Clucast, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-10-15
- Nearly Half Of IT Pros Would Consider Joining A Union
- Nearly half of the nation's IT specialists would consider joining an IT union, according to a recent online poll by TechRepublic. Of those IT pros participating, 45 percent would join a union.Drew Douglas or Liz WarinCorporate Technology Communications(312) 832-9300ddouglas@ctcomm.comlwarin@ctcomm.comTechRepublic Poll Finds Surprisingly Strong Support for RepresentationLOUISVILLE, Ky., January 22, 2001—Nearly...
- Tags: Strategy, Rose Booth, information technology, IT Pros
- Technical articles 2001-01-24
- A Methodology for Constructing Collective Causal Maps
- A causal map is an essential tool for both managers and researchers in the field of operations management. In the operations management practitioner literature, causal maps are known by many names, including Ishikawa fishbone diagrams, impact wheels, issue trees, strategy maps, risk assessment mapping tools, and cause and effect diagrams....
- Tags: Theory, University Of Minnesota, Operations Management, Tool, Collective Causal Mapping Methodology, Productivity, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-11-15
- Feelers (exe)
- Evil insect forces have kidnapped your colony's queens, spelling doom for your collective unless you can protect its few remaining eggs. The embryos will eventually hatch into new queens if you can mow down the hordes of creepy-crawlies and winged menaces out to break or steal them.
- Tags: Colony, Embryo
- Software downloads 2006-10-25
- Save and refine desktop searches in Microsoft Windows Vista
- Are you searching?Are you using the Windows Vista search feature? Has it made organization easier for you? The idea of folders and hierarchies is well entrenched in our collective psyches, are you finding it difficult to break from that pattern? I know I am.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Mark W. Kaelin, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, desktop search, Microsoft Corp., desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- How to fix IT skill shortages and misalignments
- By Mark Lefcowitz,PMP, CBBTheory of Constraints states that a system is only as fastas its slowest component. The concept has been applied to resources andprocesses for both manufacturing systems and service systems, but never--to myknowledge--has the concept been applied to skill-set resources.That's rather strange. Our personal and business lives arefilled...
- Tags: distance learning, information technology, training, Workplace
- Technical articles 2006-12-06
- Cybersettle Makes a Strong Case for a New Kind of Collaboration in the Dispute Resolution Space
- Insurance settlement disputes hurt both defendants and claimants. Still, the need to preserve bargaining leverage has kept the resolution cycle long - and very costly for insurers. Streamlining and simplifying the claims resolution process enables insurance companies to transform their claims processes and optimize their legal and administrative resources. Cybersettle...
- Tags: settlement negotiation, insurance company, insurance, IBM Corp., collaboration
- Case studies 2006-10-20
- Web 2.0 and BPM
- O'Reilly has defined Web 2.0 as a platform, harnessing collective intelligence. It defines web as data as the next 'Intel inside". It's the end of the software release cycle, lightweight programming models, software above the level of a single device and rich user experience.
- Tags: Web, BPM, O'Reilly, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Business Process Automation, Internet, Marketing, It Operations
- Presentations
- Building an Entertainment Server
- Greeting TR,I'd like to pick the collective TR brain regarding hardware for an entertainment server. The primary function of the server would be to hold and serve many multimedia files, mostly music and videos. The server would be connected to a
- Tags: multimedia, mp3, movies, hardware, servers, funta, server, entertainment
- Discussion threads 2006-11-19
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