The IT Summit

Holding space for CXO collaboration. . .

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  • Mike Garland
  • Brian Phelps
  • Karen Massie
  • Doug Bruhnke
  • Tanya Baldwin
  • Daniel McCrobie
  • Reatha Simon
  • Terry L Baars
  • Ralph Loura
  • Gail Levy
  • Thomas Branham
  • Greg Lougheed
  • Susan Silberisen
  • Lance Norris
  • Steve Reneker
  • Michael Cushman
  • Bill Austin
  • Brane
  • Michael W. Brown
  • Tim Grant

Where do CEO's, CTO's, CIO's, CFO's and other C-level executives go for questioning, sharing, meeting face-to-face, building their networks, collaborating? The IT Summit, that's where.

Bigger Picture Quotes

On building social spaces for businesses . . .some of our advertorial customers are asking us to build spaces that integrate tightly and push content between three primary marketing touch points; website, blogsite, and socialsite. -- Bill French, Myst Technologies

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Les Squires

Jobs Available and Recruitment Activity

Reply to this discussion and detail job descriptions, or requests for outsourcing, or other human resource opportunities.

Tagged: outsourcing, recruitment, jobs

Started by Les Squires in Jobs Available/Recruitment Sep. 17, 2008.

Daniel McCrobie

Lean Transformation 1 Reply

Greetings! I am looking forward to attending this year's event and think that this is a great idea for a sharing of ideas. I have been working on an idea that I need help with. I was last associa...

Tagged: sigma, TBDMIC, six, transformation, process

Started by Daniel McCrobie in Most Important Issues. Last reply by Bill French Sep. 29, 2008.

Bart Nadolski

Computer Parts Source for Dell, Compaq, HP & IBM

Tired of manufacturer's running out of stock on spare parts? Out of warranty on your PC and wanting to avoid the costly expense of upgrading to a new unit? Did a hard drive or power supply crash on...

Tagged: Hardware

Started by Bart Nadolski in News and Announcements Sep. 5, 2008.

Les Squires

Effects of High Priced Oil On Your Organization

The high price of oil has produced a daily gusher of predictions, woes, forecasts, opinion -- including really high prices on domestic and international travel. What effect have the increasing pri...

Tagged: meetings, communications, transportation, oil

Started by Les Squires in Financial Jul. 12, 2008.

Les Squires

5 IT Certifications that Still Matter

IT certifications run the gamut, from vital to passe to laughing stock. While most solution providers agree that certifications as a whole aren't as important as real skills and experience, here ar...

Tagged: CCIE, CISSP, MCT, CISM, SCNP

Started by Les Squires in News and Announcements Jun. 14, 2008.

Les Squires

Skype -- Why are So Many CXO Americans Petrified by It? 4 Replies

I can't figure it out. Nearly every tech-savvy European I've met in the last six months knows of and most of them use skype. Mention this form of social/business networking in the U.S. and you'd s...

Tagged: phone calls, communications, skype

Started by Les Squires in Software. Last reply by Les Squires Jun. 17, 2008.

Nigel Brownjohn

Are you using Mac's for 'non-traditional' Mac tasks 3 Replies

As the IT media's love of all things Apple increases, have you started using Mac desktops or servers in your business yet ? Apple seem to be going down the same path Microsoft did originally, get u...

Tagged: macintosh, servers, desktop, mac, imac

Started by Nigel Brownjohn in Hardware. Last reply by Bill French Sep. 28, 2008.

Nigel Brownjohn

I'd like to see better coverage of Open Source in Commerce at IT Summit

Seems to me not a day goes by without more IT editorial on Open Source. We use it at an operating system, and indeed database level - however for us it is a long way from replacing commercial appli...

Tagged: mysql, postgres, red hat, ubuntu, open source

Started by Nigel Brownjohn in Most Desired Topics May. 5, 2008.

Bill French

Information Durability: What are your thoughts? 2 Replies

I've been ranting on about information durability and I'm curious if this is a subject that anyone cares about or ponders.

Tagged: quality, content, durability, information

Started by Bill French in Suggested Additional Categories. Last reply by Bill French May. 4, 2008.

Ruth DeWitt

Better WAN connections/Better ISPs

I have been in remote Northwest Alaska for the last 4 years, came to Wyoming this last August. Could not believe the lack of not just good, but great WAN connections and awesome ISPs. There is no r...

Tagged: connections, wan, isp

Started by Ruth DeWitt in Most Important Issues Apr. 28, 2008.

Ronald Sander

Educating People for Future Jobs in IT

The sixty-four dollar question is how. Different organizations have different methods, but many are expensive. I think Cisco has one of the best training certifications, but it is focused on a very...

Started by Ronald Sander in Solution Providers to Evaluate Apr. 27, 2008.

Ronald Sander

How can IT become better integrated with all levels of education

The whole environment of educating future and present IT people is fragmented. K-12 schools have their own programs, colleges and technical schools also have their own program. The problem is there...

Started by Ronald Sander in Solution Providers to Evaluate Apr. 27, 2008.

Cate Lawrence

Cate Lawrence-Lawrence Research Associates-team building tools, improve communication skills

I have started this new company, Lawrence Research Associates, to introduce the Management By Strengths team building program into Colorado. I saw this system implemented in Singapore to help Singa...

Tagged: personality-profile, team-building, temperament-profile, consulting, communication

Started by Cate Lawrence in Consulting Apr. 26, 2008.

Les Squires

Instructions for Introducing Yourself

Instructions Tip Time: If you do not have time to attend to this task right at the moment, at least click on the link in Step 1 below and enter your name and primary interest. This is your page. Y...

Started by Les Squires in News and Announcements Apr. 26, 2008.

Les Squires

Photos for Member Profiles 2 Replies

If you have a digital photo you'd like to use in your profile -- if it just had a few changes made to it -- we are happy to photoshop it to your liking. I can crop you from a group shot to focus di...

Started by Les Squires in News and Announcements. Last reply by Les Squires Apr. 29, 2008.

Themistocles (Themy) Sparangis

Themy Sparangis - Chief Technology Director - LAUSD - Educational Technology

Work for Los Angeles USD. Interested in learning more about and deploying technology in schools to improve student achievement, reduce dropouts, and engage student learning. I enjoy all types of m...

Tagged: student, education, learning, music, movies

Started by Themistocles (Themy) Sparangis in News and Announcements Apr. 11, 2008.

Billy R. Hodge CPP, PSP

Billy R. Hodge CPP, PSP - Executive Vice-president Colorado Security Services

The importance of Physical Security and IT combining forces to better the overall security of the organization. The right hand knowing what the left hand is trying to accomplish.

Started by Billy R. Hodge CPP, PSP in Security Apr. 7, 2008.

Peter Citarella

Peter Citarella -- District Manager, Avocent -- IT infrastructure management solutions

Responsible for Avocent's business activities in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Utah. Primary targets are enterprise data centers, test labs and medium-sized organizations. Avocent delivers...

Tagged: kvm, console, servers, power, server/centralized

Started by Peter Citarella in News and Announcements Apr. 7, 2008.

Lindsey Winsemius

Xirrus joins exhibitors at The IT Summit in SLC

Xirrus, a swiftly growing Wi-Fi technology company, will be hosting an exhibit at The IT Summit on April 16, 2008 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Xirrus, Inc is based ...

Started by Lindsey Winsemius in News and Announcements Apr. 3, 2008.

Blog Posts

Bill French

Google Custom Search Engines (CSE)

Unwittingly I have become an expert in building custom Google search engines. I got roped into a few projects that required multi-domain solutions and lots of URL pattern exclusions. This is a pretty amazing system that enables even simpletons like myself to build and maintain custom [integrated] search solutions as XML configurations. Updates to the engine are hands off, lights out - no humans needed.

They even have this collaboration model that al… Continue

Posted by Bill French on May 5, 2008 at 8:41am

Bill French

Information Durability

Lately I've been pondering business blog content durability - I think I'll rank #1 for this term soon because no one seems to care if their blog content is durable. ;-) But they should; it's an IT subject that few IT people seem to spend much time pondering.

I became concerned about content durability when I noticed how some business blogs are aging. This post elucidates the nature of testi… Continue

Posted by Bill French on May 4, 2008 at 1:00am — 3 Comments

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