http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin * Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:46:57 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-02-19T16:46:57Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/apple-is-a-for-profit-company--cope/?cs=39546 When reading our blogger Don Tennant's post about how he’s, shall we say, displeased with a lot of what he is hearing about Apple’s corporate culture, I was reminded of the reaction of a dear friend of mine, a very talented photographer, a while back apple business_culture business_technology Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:46:57 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/apple-is-a-for-profit-company--cope/?cs=39546 2010-02-19T16:46:57Z 3 weeks, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/apple-is-a-for-profit-company--cope http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=39546 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/getting-touchy-feely-about-the-ipad/?cs=39076 A quick hallway discussion yesterday with our Ann All and Ainsley Jones led me to confirm my initial suspicion about the iPad – it’s a big iPod Touch.   This conclusion was further confirmed this morning over at our CTO Edge site by Wayne Rash , tablets_netbooks_and_umpcs ipad slate_computers apple business_technology Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:33:42 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/getting-touchy-feely-about-the-ipad/?cs=39076 2010-01-29T15:33:42Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/getting-touchy-feely-about-the-ipad http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=39076 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/where-does-the-project-team-end-and-it-begin/?cs=38485 I’ve been collecting anecdotes from a variety of sources on big failures in IT they have been involved in or witnessed. Not everyday, e-mail went down for 30 minutes failures – the big stuff.   One tale of self-inflicted woe that really caught my load_performance_and_stress_testing project_management risk_management business_technology smbs Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:20:39 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/where-does-the-project-team-end-and-it-begin/?cs=38485 2010-01-04T15:20:39Z 2 months, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/where-does-the-project-team-end-and-it-begin http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=38485 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/using-tech-to-take-the-pain-out-of-collaboration/?cs=37888 I’ve never managed a developer or development team directly, but for years now I’ve been a primary “non-tech” stakeholder for the sites that I’ve helped launch and operate. So, I know enough to poke around in admin tools and find evidence of data web_and_software_development collaboration_software business_technology business_culture Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:11:03 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/using-tech-to-take-the-pain-out-of-collaboration/?cs=37888 2009-12-03T19:11:03Z 3 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/using-tech-to-take-the-pain-out-of-collaboration http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=37888 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/im-learning-to-love-my-softphone-and-you-should-too/?cs=37497 I have to confess to being originally irritated by our transition here at the home office over to an IP-based telephony system -- primarily, I suppose, because I tend to be irritated by most all change. Not something to be proud of, but not altogether business_technology voip smbs unified_communications softphone Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:54:10 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/im-learning-to-love-my-softphone-and-you-should-too/?cs=37497 2009-11-16T15:54:10Z 4 months, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/im-learning-to-love-my-softphone-and-you-should-too http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=37497 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/im-ready-to-push-away-from-the-bandwidth-buffet/?cs=37206 Net neutrality is a hot-button issue with folks who like to talk about such topics, particularly since the Obama FCC has announced it is taking up the cause.   The thing about net neutrality is that it’s hard to actually pin down what folks are business_technology obama government_agencies bandwidth_management net_neutrality fcc Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:03:15 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/im-ready-to-push-away-from-the-bandwidth-buffet/?cs=37206 2009-11-03T19:03:15Z 4 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/im-ready-to-push-away-from-the-bandwidth-buffet http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=37206 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/windows-7-sounds-solid-which-in-the-wake-of-vista-is-revolutionary/?cs=36828 I am like most business users, I imagine, in that I can no longer personally get all that excited about the launch of any new technology, unless that technology promises to make my life somehow easier. For example, if somebody were to announce that the windows_7 windows_vista business_technology windows_xp remote_adminisitration Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:01:44 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/windows-7-sounds-solid-which-in-the-wake-of-vista-is-revolutionary/?cs=36828 2009-10-20T15:01:44Z 4 months, 4 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/windows-7-sounds-solid-which-in-the-wake-of-vista-is-revolutionary http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=36828 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/oh-boy-a-grumpy-managers-observations-on-millennials/?cs=35762 I always end up trading barbs with our Ann All whenever she blogs about “millennials,” the young, tech-savvy generation that is, in many ways, driving old farts like me to distraction.   Ann, who has the misfortune of sitting across from my office, business_culture millennials business_technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:03:54 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/oh-boy-a-grumpy-managers-observations-on-millennials/?cs=35762 2009-09-18T17:03:54Z 6 months, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/oh-boy-a-grumpy-managers-observations-on-millennials http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=35762 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/better-practices-often-the-best-results-of-innovation/?cs=35477 An interesting discussion over at Harvard Business Review has consultant Susan Cramm asking readers why so many tech executives tend to discard "best practices" and set themselves up for seemingly unavoidable failure in the process.   Of course, innovation business_culture business_technology it_best_practices apple Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:04:25 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/better-practices-often-the-best-results-of-innovation/?cs=35477 2009-09-02T18:04:25Z 6 months, 2 weeks ago 7 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/better-practices-often-the-best-results-of-innovation http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=35477 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/gmail-outages-bring-out-the-neo-luddite-in-me/?cs=35437 I don't use Gmail for business, which is a good thing today, given that I have been on the losing end of the intermittent outages that are plaguing Google's free e-mail service . However, I do use my Gmail account for a variety of reasons -- actually, gmail business_continuity google business_technology saas e-mail_and_e-mail_management Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:10:17 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/gmail-outages-bring-out-the-neo-luddite-in-me/?cs=35437 2009-09-01T21:10:17Z 6 months, 2 weeks ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/gmail-outages-bring-out-the-neo-luddite-in-me http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=35437 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/office-xml-isnt-going-anywhere--dang-it/?cs=34989 The main thing to keep in mind as you read otherwise alarming headlines about a Texas court's ruling that Microsoft must stop selling Word, at least in its current form, is this: It's silly and will be overturned on appeal.   Alexander Wolfe at microsoft_office business_technology intellectual_property patents xml Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:25:05 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/office-xml-isnt-going-anywhere--dang-it/?cs=34989 2009-08-17T19:25:05Z 7 months, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/office-xml-isnt-going-anywhere--dang-it http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=34989 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/google-keeps-me-up-at-night-caffeine-or-no/?cs=34870 Like everybody else who gets paid based on the performance of a Web site, I spent about an hour today running some test searches on the sandbox of Google's new Caffeine , which Matt Cutts says is potentially the biggest update to the monolithic search search_engines google caffeine seo business_technology Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:05:47 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/google-keeps-me-up-at-night-caffeine-or-no/?cs=34870 2009-08-11T22:05:47Z 7 months, 1 week ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/google-keeps-me-up-at-night-caffeine-or-no http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=34870 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/chrome-os-the-return-of-the-free-pc-doubtful/?cs=33969 I have trouble keeping track of how Google plans to change my life this month, but clearly this Google Chrome OS news is big, like Google Wave big from a few weeks back.   OK, enough sarcasm.   What I have been able to gather so far is that chrome_os operating_systems cloud_computing google windows business_technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:00:02 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/chrome-os-the-return-of-the-free-pc-doubtful/?cs=33969 2009-07-08T20:00:02Z 8 months, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/chrome-os-the-return-of-the-free-pc-doubtful http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=33969 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/quick-wins-and-the-long-view/?cs=33601 It's funny, the way your memory associates things.   As I was reading Loraine Lawson's post from last week about the wisdom of going after "low-hanging fruit," I could not stop thinking about one of my all-time favorite Warner Bros. cartoons, roi business_case business_technology strategic_planning Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:09:36 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/quick-wins-and-the-long-view/?cs=33601 2009-06-23T19:09:36Z 8 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/quick-wins-and-the-long-view http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=33601 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/homework-vital-before-kicking-off-on-the-road/?cs=33170 I am preparing for a business trip next week.   I feel oddly guilty about it, since we opine on a weekly basis that technology is making physical locality a minor detail in getting work done.   However, this trip – to discuss a potential new project_management business_travel business_technology business_culture collaboration_software Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:05:15 GMT ken.hardin@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/homework-vital-before-kicking-off-on-the-road/?cs=33170 2009-06-05T19:05:15Z 9 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/comment/homework-vital-before-kicking-off-on-the-road http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hardin/feeds/comments?blogPost=33170