Monday, May 14, 2012
What A CIO Should Know: A guide to the CEO's respect Our regular roundup of great blog, conferences and other resources for Canadian chief information officers. This month: A WSJ post on executive relationships
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
AOL buys TechCrunch and 5min Media The acquisitions are meant to boost AOL's content offerings. The moves are in line with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's strategy of turning AOL into a massive provider of original content as a way to boost user engagement and advertising sales
Monday, September 27, 2010
Microsoft pulls plug on blog platform Blogs on Windows Live Spaces will be moved onto Wordpress under a partnership announced Monday. Blog publishers have six months to migrate
Friday, May 21, 2010
Is the government more social than the media? The latest spate of Australian social media catastrophes has journalists worried, bystanders amused, and others questioning the benefit of Twitter in the great meta-narrative that is current affairs.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Blogging Idol 2010: And the winner is . . . Our user-generted content competition wraps up by giving the top $1,000 prize to an individual who has been with us since Day 1. Meet the top bloggers
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Blogging Idol: The little things they don't know Contestants in our third annual blogging competition ponder the challenges facing immigrant talent, Facebook's Open Graph API and the CIO reaction to social networks
Thursday, March 25, 2010
U of A text mining project could help businesses Text mining tools which can summarize and look for patterns within large electronic documents are still costly and difficult to use. But a group of researchers, including one at the University of Alberta, is hoping to change that. Find out about the tools they are developing and how they hope to improve text mining technology
Thursday, January 14, 2010
6 personal branding mistakes that could cost you a job The social media and social networking technologies that took 2009 by storm sure made personal branding easy. Too easy, perhaps, since many job seekers made careless mistakes in their haste to brand their way to a new job
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
IN BRIEF: Seen our new IT World Canada beta site? Currently in beta, IT World Canada’s Web site is in the final stages of development. We want to hear about your beta experience, so tell us what you liked and didn’t like. We’d love to hear from you
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Microsoft offers open-source content management app Microsoft releases a standards-compliant open-source framework that developers can use to build blogs or large Web sites 
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The top 10 blogs There's a blog for every topic under the sun but the quality of these daily journals are usually all over the map. But here's a list of 10 of the best written blogs
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Stop sending e-mail you'll regret with Gmail Goggles Free Google consumer e-mail feature can help enterprise users avoid sending out ill-conceived e-mail messages
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Pramati collaboration widget to break enterprise silos Indian Internet app company's "pluggable" widget will enable users to collaborate within business applications...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Warner Bros. Records IT exec charts Web changes The role the Internet plays on both business and digital advocacy took centre stage at Wednesday’s Mesh 2008 conference in Toronto. Plus: Michael Geist keynote coverage
Thursday, May 01, 2008
IBM offers alternative to SharePoint Lotus Quickr Content Integrator can move data from repositories to team places, and create wikis and blogs. Find out what administrators can do
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Web 2.0 still the coolest kid in school Over half the enterprise execs surveyed are using Web 2.0 tools like blogs and wikis
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
CIOs set to embrace Web 2.0, says report According to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc., IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Young government IT workers say tech is dated, says study According to a recent focus-group report, young IT workers in the U.S. government believe that by the time technology is rolled out it's obsolete, and as a result they're concerned they aren't getting the experience they need because some functions are outsourced.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Why blogging could boost your career Writing a blog can establish your company's credibility, demonstrate your expertise on a certain subject or help you organize yourself and your projects. It can also land you a job.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Companies apply ROI to Web 2.0 A Forrester Research report looks at the metrics enterprises are using to evaluate the success -- or failure -- of their attempts to apply next-generation software. Do "soft" benefits count?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Growing your revenues - and reputation – with social software The social media world may be unstructured, uncontrolled, and quite scary, but it's actually also very liberating. And if used astutely and appropriately, social networking applications can prove to incredibly profitable in more ways than one. 
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Municipalities tap IT security community While the demand for skilled IT workers has never been greater, a tighter rein on municipal budgets and overall spending has forced many Canadian cities to place less emphasis on IT staff training. Most municipal IT training is done on a yearly or biannual basis, meaning staff don't necessarily access the most up-to-date information on IT security.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Municipalities tap community While the demand for skilled IT workers has never been greater, a tighter rein on municipal budgets and overall spending has forced many Canadian cities to place less emphasis on IT staff training. Most municipal IT training is done on a yearly or biannual basis, meaning staff don't necessarily access the most up-to-date information on IT security.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gen Y heralded as technology's latest 'gatekeepers' As the line between the creators and consumers of content blur, media outfits need to rethink old business models to respond to new realities, says a recently published study.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
US government intelligence agency embraces Web 20 The U.S. Department of Defense's lead intelligence agency is using wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and enterprise "mashups" to help its analysts collaborate better when sifting through data used to support military operations.