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Best Information Technology Websites: CIO.com
3Today, 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.
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.
Image Credit: fastcompany.com
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.
Best Information Technology Websites: Digg.com
0Today, I continue our new series on my favorite websites for Information Technology Professionals. I either read these daily or subscribe to them via my RSS reader.
Today, I wish to feature Digg.com’s technology site. It is nicely divided into categories spanning everything from Apple to Technology news. If you are unfamiliar with Digg, it is unique because it does not produce content, but instead its readers nominate stories to appear there. The more votes, also known as “diggs”, that a story gets, the higher it climbs on the home page and the longer that it lasts. If a story gets more than a thousand diggs then it gets special notice and a “sticky” position on the “best of” right side of the page.
Suffice it to say, that if you make it to the site, you are worthy of notice. If you make it to the “best of” list for the day, week, or month, the story has value. What is really great here is that the rankings are category specific. So if they have a category that you are interested in, such as ‘LINUX’, then you are sure to be excited by the content you find there because others with the same theme thought so. You can also sign up there to receive tweets or SMS text messages when stories there, meeting your personal criteria, make it to the “best of” level. I scan their top 3 pages for certain categories every day and am never dissatisfied by what I find. I like their technology, Apple, Linux, and industry pages for sure. Many others are also interesting reads.
I read this site daily, and I recommend it to you. While you cannot possibly keep up with them, nor be intimately interested in all of their content, the reading will be educational. I learn something new every day from there and cannot even measure the number of times that I have used their links towards my professional development or job performance. If you keep up with them, you will keep up with tech. I hope that you enjoy it.
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 December 11, 2009 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: rapprint.co.uk
Special thanks to the team at Digg. I really appreciate your work at putting out such a terrific resource for the Information Technology Professional community.
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Best Information Technology Websites: Slashdot
0Today, I am starting a new series! It will be all about websites that I recommend to Information Technology Professionals. I plan to start with the ones that I either read daily or subscribe to via an RSS reader.
So where else on the web can you see the following all on the front page of the website?
- “Life begins when you can spend your spare time programming instead of watching television.” — Cal Keegan
- A story on growing Linux market share.
- A link to Geek Christmas Cards.
- News about Biometrics.
- A discussion about Encryption Standards.
- Along with an image of Bill Gates as a Star Trek Borg?
They were all on the lead page today for Slashdot This site has as their tagline “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters” and I could not say it any better. Slashdot is my favorite daily scroll type site dedicated to technology and The Internet.
From their Frequently Asked Questions Page:
“Who does this?
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..
Slashdot is run primarily by me and a handful of other others, who post stories and wrangle the day-to-day affairs of Slashdot.”
What does their name mean?
“Slashdot” is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable. Try reading out the full URL to http://slashdot.org and you’ll see what I mean. Of course my cocky little joke has turned around and bit me in the butt because now I am called upon constantly to tell people my URL or email address. I can’t tell you how many people respond confused “So do I spell out the ‘dot’ or is that just a period?”
I read this site daily, and I recommend it to you. While you cannot possibly keep up with them, nor be intimately interested in all of their content, the reading will be educational. I learn something new every day from there and cannot even measure the number of times that I have used their links towards my professional development or job performance. If you keep up with them, you will keep up with tech. I hope that you enjoy it.
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 December 9, 2009 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: rapprint.co.uk
Special thanks to the team at Slashdot. I really appreciate your work at putting out such a terrific resource for the Information Technology Professional community.
Don’t forget that The IT Thought of the Day Webstore is now open for the Holiday Season! Great selections and anything that you buy at Amazon.com through it helps us without costing you anymore!