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  • Business 2.0's bumpy ride

    There was a lot to admire in Time Warner's Business 2.0 , a magazine that seemed to be aimed more at the departmental decision-maker than traditional IT manager. A New York Times story suggests it is all but closing , while Henry Blodget at Internet Outsider...
    Posted to Enterprise Insights by Shane Schick on Tue, Jul 17 2007
  • IT World's Salary Survey on CBC

    There's a story this morning on CBC.ca about our recently-released report on compensation levels across the professional technology sector. CBC focused on the skills shortage issue, but that's only one of several angles you could take. We'll be featuring...
    Posted to Career Corner by Shane Schick on Tue, Jul 17 2007
  • A wiki for your thoughts

    - By Joaquim P. Menezes - With their proven effectiveness in building brand, enhancing communications and even boosting revenue, why isn’t use of Web 2.0 tools – such as blogs and wikis – becoming more pervasive among enteprises? The answer to that was...
    Posted to Candid CIO by Joaquim Menezes on Tue, Jul 17 2007
  • A Web app by any other name

    Well, someone had to do it. Richard McManus of Read/Write/Web has come up with what he believes is the definitive list of the Top 10 Worst Web App Names . My favourites include a social networking service called Layoffspace and an online music service...
    Posted to Enterprise Insights by Shane Schick on Mon, Jul 16 2007
  • The one skill that employers will always say 'Yes' to

    Let's get one thing straight: I interview IT managers. I don't hire them. Yet for some reason, the resumes keep pouring in, either to my e-mail account or the general delivery ones we set up for reader feedback. And, sad to say, I doubt I'd...
    Posted to Career Corner by Shane Schick on Mon, Jul 16 2007
  • About

    Enterprise Insights offers commentary on a broad range of enterprise technologies and trends, including IT infastructure, business applications, tools, strategies and more. You can get more enterprise insights in our print publications, such as ComputerWorld...
    Posted to Enterprise Insights by Joaquim Menezes on Mon, Jul 16 2007
  • "...That now I am the ruler of the RCMP"

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    Posted to Government by Arnab on Wed, Jul 11 2007
  • New prime minister: New Web site?

    By: Sandford Borins Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown , 10 Downing St. Prime Minister : Events beyond your control have dominated the political agenda of your first week in office, likely leaving you little time to think about your Web site. But it is in moments...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, Jul 5 2007
  • Gearing up for the Ontario election

    By: Sandford Borins Everything is now in place for the campaign leading up to the Ontario election on October 10. The legislature stopped sitting two weeks ago, and the auditor general recently reported on the state of the government's finances. The...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, Jun 21 2007
  • High touch or high tech?

    By: Sandford Borins The participants at the 2007 Lac Carling Congress were asked how effective a variety of approaches were at engaging citizens for useful policy input. The participants, (mainly public servants), were most skeptical about scientific...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, Jun 14 2007
  • Ontario's worst premier

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    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, Jun 7 2007
  • Why Estonia matters to us all

    By: Sandford Borins Tuesday's New York Times contains a fascinating history of a cyberwar being fought for the past month in the digitally leading edge country of Estonia, renowned for conducting its cabinet meetings and elections online. The Estonian...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, May 31 2007
  • Facebook or faceless?

    By: Sandford Borins Politicians at the digital leading edge are creating Facebook entries to reach out to younger voters. So why have the federal and Ontario governments decided to block access to Facebook for their public servants? The Ontario Public...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, May 24 2007
  • Integrated service delivery: Not yet there?

    By: Sandford Borins In his commentary on the Lac Carling conference " Plumbing the foundations of a new public service culture ," Don Lenihan observes that silo walls are not being breached, and that rather than integrating services, agencies...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, May 17 2007
  • The Ethics of Leaking

    By: Sandford Borins The RCMP has arrested a public servant from Environment Canada who is accused of leaking a draft of the Conservative government's Green Plan to the media. Today's question: What are the legal and moral justifications for public...
    Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, May 10 2007