So, it’s 2008 and yet again Christmas and New Year have come and gone in the blink of an eye. It’s a new year, a new beginning and even a spot of snow!!
1. I have to say I agree with Shel Holtz’s It’s okay to pay…and charge. Even with people in the social media world [...]
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This week I would like to start of by thanking those of you who left encouraging messages about my last post. I have taken on board all of your comments and advice and hopefully they will help me improve. I am extremely grateful you took the time and effort to read what I had written [...]
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Without good communications, the IT department risks missing opportunities to inform people of their true value and may even contribute to misunderstandings and negative perceptions of the IT function.
Those in IT leadership roles do recognise the problem, but are often at a loss as to what they can do. Many take a haphazard approach to [...]
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In this week’s Tech Talk, my weekly column in the Isle of Man Examiner, I look at the annual CIO Survey from Harvey Nash, the global recruitment and IT outsourcing service provider. It had some interesting findings that, put into the Isle of Man context, reveal the distinctiveness of our technology industry. Pick up your [...]
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The Isle of Man Examiner launched Business News, the new ‘pink’ weekly supplement yesterday. It offers a good mix of articles on business and industry in the Isle of Man along with some stories from farther afield.
It aims to be broad based, although this first issue has quite a strong focus on technology and telecoms. [...]
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It’s Friday again already. Where do the weeks go? Maybe I’m spending too much time reading blogs? Here are this week’s faves:
1. I think Ian Douglas, tech journo at The Telegraph wrote a wonderful blog post describing a day of journalism done the old fashioned way. Due to unforeseen circumstances his technology was limited to paper and [...]
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Well here I am, barely off the ferry and already getting back in the blogging saddle, as it were. There were hundreds of RSS feeds awaiting my return and as I scanned them I was struck by the ebb and flow of the PR blogosphere. A week offline gives you a fresh perspective. So, instead [...]
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There has long been a rivalry between the marketers and the engineers of this world (even in my own household). Marketing often thinks about blue skies, big pictures and getting results while engineering gets into the nuts and bolts of solving problems and creating solutions. Sometimes engineering thinks of marketing as a parasite that lives [...]
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Over the past four weeks, I’ve met with reps from more than a dozen technology companies in the Isle of Man. I learned that the Island boasts a broad offering of software, hosting, business continuity, telecom and other services.
But one theme that came up time and again, in these conversations, was the challenge of building business [...]
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People often ask me what the heck I’m doing in the Isle of Man. Well the booming economy is one reason, and e-business is thriving here.
The Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency, but it has its own parliament and a lot of domestic legislative and political autonomy. In the late 1990s, the Treasury decided [...]
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I saw a product review in InformationWeek on a new service from Gcast that supposedly makes producing a Podcast ‘as easy as making a phone call’. And I thought to myself, I should try this! I thought I’d ask Strive Partner Rita Rich, the radio expert, her opinion on the service. As you know, Rita [...]
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Everyone’s a little bit Irish today. I know the Brits will largely ignore the occasion, the Yanks may raise a green beer or two at lunch, the Canadians have taken the day off and are already propping up some bar. We, in the Isle of Man, plan to join in on festivities [...]
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It seems that fellow Ottawan, author Margaret Atwood, buys into the virtual way of doing business, in a really big way. Her company has created a technology that will allow her to attend book signings around the world, greet fans and personally dedicate copies of her latest novels, all from the comfort of her own [...]
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