Cubicle Mentoring

May 23, 2011

Many companies have formal mentoring programs. These programs help employees find a mentor that can advise them on their career and provide some guidelines for both the employee and the mentor. Some people however do not think they have the skills or the time to be a mentor. The thought of participating in a formal [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips: Google-licious

May 17, 2011

The boys and girls over in Google land have been busy these days, so I thought I would round up some of the more recent events for you all. Are you a Gmail Label freak? Wish you could create labels longer than 40 characters? Good news!  You can now create label names as long as [...]

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Psst Consultants – Some Implementation Bid Tips For You

May 16, 2011

In previous blog posts I gave you some software demo tips for vendors and some software demo tips for customers. This time around I feel compelled to give some tips to Implementation firms on how NOT to bid an implementation project. Assume or act like you are smarter than I am. I can’t believe I [...]

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HRevolution 2011 – By Golly There Was Tech Talk

May 10, 2011

I hope you all had some fun reading my HRevolution spoof-ish blog post hosted over at Paul Smith’s blog Welcome To The Occupation yesterday.  I thought I would actually get serious (who knew that was possible) and write my actual thoughts about HRevolution 2011. Last year’s HRevolution in Chicago was great except that as a [...]

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Special Tuesday Tech Tips: Remedial Edition

May 9, 2011

Today’s Special Tech Tips is yet another guest post from Travis Phillips.  I continue to whine and complain about how hard it is to maintain your own blog so that Travis will keep writing guest posts for me.  He wins, you win and I win. #WINNING (sorry, I had to do that). TECH TIPS – [...]

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HRevolution, Blog Hacking and Paul Smith

May 8, 2011

Heeeees Baaaaaaaack.  Bet you thought I had abandoned my blog.  Let’s not use such a strong word as abandon.  How about hiatus or leave of absence or long vacation.  It’s been a whirlwind crazy couple of months but don’t worry, I didn’t forget you all.  To ease you back into my blog posts I thought [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips: FTC Wi-Fi Tips Edition

February 22, 2011

I wrote a couple of blog posts about Firesheep and safe browsing habits using public Wi-Fi hotspots here and here.  I received a nice email from the FTC as they noticed I had been blogging about Firesheep. (side note: The FTC is reading my blog! The FTC is reading my blog! Yeah baby)  Anyway my [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips

February 15, 2011

Instead of giving you a plethora of tips and tricks the week, I thought I would focus on a couple of items that I personally use. Google Desktop Notifications Do you have a Gmail account and use the Google Chrome browser?  Do you constantly switch back to your Gmail tab or hit the refresh link [...]

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Special Tuesday Tech Tips: Auto Show Edition

February 1, 2011

Today’s Special Tech Tips is another guest post from Travis Phillips.  Hopefully he won’t get his own blog so I can keep getting these guest posts. Fresh off a visit to the Portland International Auto Show, it seems that an auto-themed spin down tech lane might be in order. Of course, it was the Portland [...]

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From Firesheep comes FireShepherd and a Facebook Bonus

January 30, 2011

I wrote a blog post last week about the dangers of a new Firefox browser extension called Firesheep.  My good buddy Lee (aka @JustaSunGod on Twitter) immediately brought to my attention a program that was created to render Firesheep unusable by flooding the local Wi-Fi network with packets designed to turn off Firesheep.  The program [...]

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