Posts tagged Information Professional
Dilbert Videos! Who Hates MBAs?
0I 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
More IT Quotes From Alvin Toffler
2Alvin Toffler’s books have informed an entire generation of
thinkers, and thus, He is a worthy addition to our IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series. Today is our second entry in his series.
In The Third Wave he famously classified societies by what he called “waves”. This is from Wikipedia:
- First Wave is the society after agrarian revolution and replaced the first hunter-gatherer cultures.
- Second Wave is the society during the Industrial Revolution. The main components of the Second Wave society are nuclear family, factory-type education system and the corporation.
- Third Wave is the post-industrial society. Toffler would also add that since late 1950s most countries are moving away from a Second Wave Society into what he would call a Third Wave Society. He coined lots of words to describe it and mentions names invented by him (super-industrial society) and other people (like the Information Age, Space Age, Electronic Era, Global Village, technetronic age, scientific-technological revolution), which to various degrees predicted demassification, diversity, knowledge-based production, and the acceleration of change (one of Toffler’s key maxims is "change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways").
I like Information Age quotations. I find some of them very inspirational and like to carry a new one around about every week. I thought that i could share mine with you from time to time.
Here is my quote of the day:
“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.”
You can learn more about our quote source at Wikipedia.
So how do you think that this relates to Information Technology? How do you think that it could be important to Information Technology Professionals?
Do you like quotations? Do you collect them, too? What did you think of when you read this one? Do you agree or disagree with it? Please comment below.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 26, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image credit: Leaders in Dubai
Quote Source: Brainy Quote
Information Technology Professional Continuing Learning Plans
1About 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