Category: Training and Development

In a previous blog post, I spoke about the benefits of online training and why you might consider it as a viable option for taking a hands-on training class. In this post, I’m going to provide some tips, showing you how to get the most of your online training class. I have delivered many online […]

Does your company have a Plan B? Small company owners often don’t give enough thought to how they would respond to an unexpected natural disaster, data loss, or financial emergency, and when the unthinkable happens, they are left scrambling for a solution. Chances are that solution, however, will prove ineffective. Here are a few sobering […]

As one who embraces learning at all levels, I thought I’d use this opportunity to share a brief list of valuable informal learning resources with you. It’s not practical to attend a formal school even part-time for one’s whole life, and we need to supplement other formal learning (such as Learning Tree and company courses) […]

First, some good news for the security of open source software. The Mozilla Foundation has allocated US$500,000 to audit the security of open source tools. The money funds the Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program. I believe this will be a big help in making open […]

If you need to motivate others then here are four levers that you can pull that work with developers and other IT staff; If you’re feeling unmotivated by your own work, here’s why you feel that way (and, perhaps, what you can do about it). As head of an IT department, I figured that I had three […]