Productivity
Dilbert Videos! Who Hates MBAs?
May 1st
I love Scott Adam’s Dilbert cartoons. I have featured them before on this site. Today, i happened to discover that his animation is also featured on YouTube! I could not resist the urge to highlight this. He even has a Dilbert Channel there. They are even keyword searchable!
I usually feature comedy on Saturdays. In the past, I have featured jokes, comics, cartoons, and news on the weekends. Sometimes I include comics, stories, games, and photos. By far, though, humor and especially videos with Information Technology (IT) themes have been the most popular. So I have gone back to this endless well of laughs! I simply cannot get enough of comedy videos!
For this week, I have picked this video to share with you as follow-up. It is called “Dilbert: Different Situations and MBA”… It is by Scott Adam’s and it just plain funny and frighteningly accurate. If MBAs are too close to home for you, you can just think, “IT Consultant” and it will be just as funny!
I hope that I gave you a chuckle to make your weekend a little brighter. I will be back Monday with more serious topics!
What did you think of the video? Funny? Do you know of any other similar movies or clips? Please share.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for May 1, 2010.
media credits: Scott Adams
Information Technology Professional Continuing Learning Plans
Apr 28th
About once a year, I try to make a professional education plan for myself. I firmly believe in the value of continuing education and training and know that I have to own this challenge for my own professional growth.
I like to take a hard look at:
- Trends in the Information Technology industry
- Gaps in my current knowledge
- Emerging issues that I see coming up at work
- Larger social and culture based effects that I am unprepared for
- Industry media coverage trends
My initial list for this year looks like it includes:
- The overall aging of the population
- The rise of mobile, always connected Internet computing devices
- The growing popularity of Apple computing products
- The decline of write once, run anywhere software development
- Enterprise Management Systems
- Enterprise eLearning Systems
- Enterprise content management systems
- Transitioning Legacy Systems to Cloud Based ones.
- Cloud computing security and information assurance
- The end of the print era – the all digital content delivery period
- The rise of cloud computing from a consumer and user perspective.
Obviously, there is more than I can handle for one year on this list. It is essentially a first draft that will have to be cut down, but it is a starting point. Now I just need to come up with the training, education, and learning plans to accomplish it.
How do you design, execute, and manage your Information Technology Professional Continuing Learning program? What have you found works best? Can you share via our comments section?
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 28, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: US Senate Site – Senator Webb
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News Commentary: The Bit.ly Challenge
Jun 7th
Posted by Scott Coughlin in Business of IT
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As an active twitterer, I can certainly appreciate the value of a URL shortener – that is a service that takes a thousand character web link and shrinks it down to 10 or so for Twitter. However, I also am concerned that it violates one of the
fundamental value propositions of the world wide web – that of linking plain text, man readable, and enduring hyperlinks.
On Mondays I offer comments on some of the most interesting information technology stories that I have found on the web that week. Please feel free to join in the discussion or suggest other stories.
Today’s comments were generated after I read a CNN story. It is all about the rise of Bit.ly as the greatest URL shortener of them all. I recommend it to you. Give it a read below.
CNN.com – Clicking small links on bit.ly keeps getting bigger
There are many many hyperlinks that items that I have posted online that are still good links after 15 years. I know that they are good because I made them, I own them, and I pay to keep them live. The problem with URL shortener is that they are simply spreadsheets and look-up tables linking real hyperlinks to a shortened version that is in no way related to the original. They are great for ease of use, saving space on Twitter, and replacing overly cumbersome URLs with easy to remember ones. What they are not good at is being enduring, reliable, or permanent. If the URL shortener service goes away, so go the links. That is why, as a web author, I love to hate them.
I am resigned that they are a necessary evil for the time being, but I still am uneasy with how fragile the link to so much of what I have created really is on today’s web.
What do you think about this topic? Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended news story for next week? Please share your ideas below.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for June 7, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: VEED.in – Tech News