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When Tornados Strike, First Responders Respond with Satellite
By Jim McGehee on Friday, May 09, 2008
With the scope of destruction and damages from the multiple tornados that struck the Southeast recently still unfolding, there is a common thread that is found in all disasters, whether natural or man-made. Satellite may be the only way to provide a broadband connection to the Internet.
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Virtualization Basics - Back to the Future
By Don Campbell on Friday, May 02, 2008
Virtualization offers many potential advantages to organizations of all sizes. For multi-location, geographically dispersed enterprises, virtualization is the architecture of the future. For small and midsized organizations, virtualization provides excellent economies of scale to get more processing with less cost.
The purpose of this white paper is to provide a primer on virtualization and how it can be used by mid-sized organizations to lower costs and improve operations (the constant goal of IT).
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Project & Portfolio Management 101
By Don Curt on Monday, April 28, 2008
PPM is about IT, the PMO and all business functions. Managing a portfolio of key work, projects and initiatives for a business involves cooperation and interchange based on easily obtainable, factual data about the status of the portfolio of current activities. To successfully accomplish these objectives, companies need clear functional linkages, handoffs and responsibilities - plus an automated system to easily enable the flow of the processes which the business is built upon.
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How to Avoid Project Failure through Project Planning and Effective Project Recovery
By Bruce Beer on Wednesday, April 23, 2008
After extensive project planning, you feel assured that everything will go smoothly. However, when project failure does occur, what do you do? An effective recovery plan will first evaluate how serious the failure is and see what is salvageable. By using the medical term triage and applying it your situation, you can initiate project recovery and help save your work.
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Information Processing and Acceptance of Change in the Human Mind
By Susan Booth on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Organizations experience change. Success in organizations implementing change is affected by many factors. Leadership styles, implementation methods, and follower response to change contribute to or detract from this success. Information processing is closely related to follower satisfaction, which in turn is closely related to good leadership. Follower satisfaction and good leadership combined contribute to successful change implementation.
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Project Failure
By Patrick Malone on Thursday, April 17, 2008
According to a survey by the Utah-based VitalSmarts, 82% of employees within companies with significant organization-wide initiatives underway believe those projects will fail and 78% are currently working on a “doomed” project. The recommended solution with these troubled projects was nothing short of a complete culture change within those organizations. Somehow that solution seems akin to quintuple by-pass heart surgery when a less radical angioplasty might be more appropriate.
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What You Need to Know About PCI Compliance and Web Application Security Policy Changes
By Michael Sutton on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
PCI compliance exists to protect consumers from credit fraud, and their data will be protected if rules are followed. If your business accepts credit cards, you are aware of changes to PCI compliance in June. Adherence to section 6.6 of the PCI compliance rules should have been met; if not, web application security must be integrated into existing applications. This mandate allows businesses to evaluate their security practices.
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Social Media Optimization: Spin your “Friends”
By Jeremy Simpson on Friday, April 11, 2008
“Spin” is usually associated with politics and that automatically gives it a negative connotation. However, spin is really just appealing to a group of people, setting the wheels of thought in motion. Now, I want you to think about you and your friends. I’m sure you discuss new products and services, right? We all do. As a matter of fact, any product or service can live or die within the confines of your social circle. The 10 people you know may not overtly impact the global lifecycle of the product, but it’s certainly up to the members of your clique to decide the fate of the products and services you use.
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Forget the ABCs of Lead Scoring
By Lisa Cramer on Tuesday, April 08, 2008
If your sales team loves your ABC lead-ranking system because it really works, good for you. Stop reading and get back to generating leads. However, if your Hot-Warm-Whatever system is leaving the sales team cold, there is a better way. Lead scoring helps maximize sales resources to deal with numerous leads, including those needing immediate action and those needing prolonged attention.
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Sir Winston Churchill once said, "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."
TechLINKS Community Publishers share their knowledge with the Georgia technology industry in order to help illuminate the many top-of-mind issues important to your business. Their community participation demonstrates the significant expertise and generosity contained within the Georgia technology industry.
Knowledge has no value when it is stored - it only has value when it is shared and applied. We know that businesses, educational institutions and government agencies sit upon rich veins of untapped information.
Community Publishing's mission is to tap into and release that knowledge to Georgia's technology community.
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