Today, I continue our series on my favorite websites for Information Technology Professionals. I either read these daily or subscribe to them via my RSS reader.  I recommend them all to you.

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Today, I wish to feature CIO.com.  CIO.com is an enterprise Information Technology focused site that is targeted at well… Chief Information Officers (CIOs).  It is presented in a magazine blog style and features daily, weekly, and monthly columns, along with news and special features.  It tends to stay aimed at items that would interest mid to large size organizations and has a very nice mix of human resources type stories – hiring, certifications, management, etc. – and technology implementation and utilization articles.  I especially like it because they do an excellent job of linking to unfamiliar terms and writing at an appropriately mature, but not academic level.  They also feature continuing series on topics of interest such as smart phones, Blackberries, virtualization, and management practices.

CIO.com is free.  It has a very clean interface that while featuring ads, does so in a standard vice flashy manner.  It looks good in all the major browsers, including ones featured by large enterprises, but outmoded in general use, such as IE 6.  I find it very usable and direct.

What is CIO.com?  I cannot describe it better than they do… From their own about page:

“Serving chief information officers and other IT leaders, CIO.com, CIO magazine, CIO Executive Programs, CIO Custom Solutions Group and the CIO Executive Council are produced by CXO Media, an award-winning business unit of International Data Group. CXO Media also produces sister publications CSO magazine and CSOonline.com, for chief security officers and other security executives.”

This site is one that all Information Technology  Professionals should be following.  If not on the web, then at least on Twitter where they have a very good news casting service.  Please check this great site out.

What do you think about this topic?  Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended website for next week? Please share your ideas below.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for February 9, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.

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Special thanks to the team at CIO.com I really appreciate your work at putting out such a terrific resource for the Information Technology Professional community.