Shane Schick

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The case for IT department SEO savvy

Earlier this week I gave a speech at event that took me outside ofthe usual IT industry crowd and closer to my peer group....

Canadian firm slams complexity of ITIL certification

Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library was supposed to help executives do a better job of managing technology infrastructure, but do you take the "capability" or "lifecycle" courses? Pink Elephant calls for greater clarity

Bing! Where Microsoft

A scheduling conflict prevented me from attending an invite-onlyclose-up look at Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, which was beingheld last night at the Marvin...

The Google Wave dilemma

Imagine for a moment if Google executives loaded up their PowerPoint presentation, walked into the head office of a major bank and provided...

YouTube Fridays: IT managers face top-down Web 2.0 pressure

Interesting survey from Websense about the main stakeholders who are harassing their technology staff to use Twitter, Facebook and similar services. I...

Why we

As images of industry consolidation and organizational synergies go,nothing was more iconic than the photograph that appeared, early in2000, of AOL chairman Steve Case...

From institutions to individuals: Media, the Internet and us

(The following was written for our employee newsletter, but inthe interests of transparency I thought I’d share it with our audienceas well, to give...

The best way to consolidate IT service contracts

If budgets have been slashed, projects pushed off and employee headcount reduced, vendor relationship management may be the last area to cut expenses. Info-Tech and Dimension Data discuss how to get started

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