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Suggested user lists and the people who make them: An IT department exercise

If Google+ was not a public social network but your company’s intranet, would anyone in the IT department make the suggested user list?...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2011 4:39 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Social media, IT departments, Google+
What IT managers can do with Quora

The funny thing about Quora is that it doesn’t seem to offer itself up as a topic to follow, even though its potential success has raised more questions than anything else on the site so far. ...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 3:36 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Social media, IT departments, IT managers, Quora
Why IT departments need to own innovation in 2011

Let’s please make this a collective New Year’s resolution: Any attempt to outsource innovation should be treated as an insult to the IT department. ...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 7:03 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: IT departments, innovation, IT managers
Beyond the break/fix mentality in enterprise IT

No one would call Fran Lebowitz an early adopter. In fact, she's more like an anti-adopter. ...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 4:30 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: IT departments, IT managers
Guilt, innocence and the IT department

Steve Gurthie has been working with enterprise IT departments long enough to know they are often focused on the “mean time to repair” when something in their infrastructure goes wrong. But he also notices another, more dangerous metric....

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 4:20 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: IT departments, metrics
Accenture Labs and the blue flame of passion

It sounds like the title of an adult film, but Michael Redding swears by what he calls the “blue flame of passion.” ...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2010 4:03 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Accenture, IT departments, innovation, IT managers
YouTube Fridays: A great mix of IT department avatars and actualities

It starts out looking like a test for the emergency broadcast system, but quickly becomes so much more. ...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2010 4:56 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: YouTube Fridays, IT departments
YouTube Fridays: An IT department scuffle turns into a sales pitch

Wow, you can almost feel the sexual tension here. Okay, not really....

Published Fri, Sep 09 2010 4:51 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: IT departments
YouTube Fridays: What the IT department has been up to this summer

Somewhere, Will Smith is crying. ...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 12:51 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: YouTube Fridays, IT departments
How social software can turn anyone into an A-Team*

I realized that the group dynamic that attracted me to the TV show in the 1980s contains three major traits that are characteristic of almost all the other teams we tend to celebrate and mythologize in our popular culture...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 3:45 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Collaboration, IT departments, IT managers, social software
Why IT help desk humour is getting stale

It’s easy to make fun of people who haven’t been installing and configuring IT for most, if not all, of their working lives. It’s just not easy to make it funny. ...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 4:49 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Virtualization, Help desk, IT departments, business intelligence, ERP
How an IT departments can deal with their own versions of Apple's 'Antennagate'

IT managers must wonder how Steve Jobs gets away with it, and they don’t. ...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2010 6:57 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Apple, Iphone, IT departments, antennagate
YouTube Fridays: IT department challengers to Justin Bieber

Okay, so they're not exactly the Backstreet Boys. And Timbaland may not be calling anytime soon. Still, can your technology staff pull off these moves? ...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2010 11:04 AM by Shane Schick

Filed under: YouTube Fridays, IT departments
Email-me Elmo

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I must: we used the TV as a babysitter this past weekend. ...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 3:53 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: Social networking, IT departments, IT managers
YouTube Fridays: An apartment finder's IT department

If I didn't know better, I'd swear Devo did the soundtrack for this clip....

Published Fri, Jun 06 2010 4:23 PM by Shane Schick

Filed under: YouTube Fridays, IT departments

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Shane Schick is the Editor-in-Chief of IT World Canada, which includes Networkworld Canada, CIO Canada, CDN, Direction Informatique and ITBusiness.ca He has written about technology for the Globe and Mail, CBC.ca and many other publications. Shane has been recognized by the CATA Alliance for excellence in science and technology reporting.

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Suggested user lists and the people who make them: An IT department exercise

What IT managers can do with Quora

Why IT departments need to own innovation in 2011

Beyond the break/fix mentality in enterprise IT

Guilt, innocence and the IT department

Accenture Labs and the blue flame of passion

YouTube Fridays: A great mix of IT department avatars and actualities

YouTube Fridays: An IT department scuffle turns into a sales pitch

YouTube Fridays: What the IT department has been up to this summer

How social software can turn anyone into an A-Team*

Why IT help desk humour is getting stale

How an IT departments can deal with their own versions of Apple's 'Antennagate'

YouTube Fridays: IT department challengers to Justin Bieber

Email-me Elmo

YouTube Fridays: An apartment finder's IT department

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