Don Tennant

The Evolution of Communication Technology SecuraTrac, a mobile health and safety technology provider in Hermosa Beach, Calif., has developed some innovative GPS technology to help safeguard the well-being of seniors and remote workers. While that’s a good thing, if the folks at SecuraTrac had their way, they’d be focusing more on developing products to help […]

Top 25: Which Cities Pay Software Engineers the Best? It might be my own ignorance, but my hunch is that not too many of us think of New York City as a bastion of software engineering talent. So when it came to my attention that Squarespace, one of the higher-profile website creation platform providers around, […]

Employee Engagement: The Strategic Priority of HR A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Stephan Aarstol, an entrepreneur who secured funding from Mark Cuban on the ABC TV show, “Shark Tank,” and who went on to champion the idea of a five-hour workday. Aarstol shared quite a bit more than I was able to […]

Top 10 Tech Hubs and Geekiest Cities in the U.S. If you’re an IT professional whose parents simply can’t seem to wrap their heads around exactly what it is you do, you’re not alone. It wouldn’t be surprising if your kids have a much clearer understanding of what you do than your parents do. So […]

How to Start Your Job Search in Data Science There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the supply of IT professionals in the United States failing to keep pace with demand, and the need to fill the gap by bringing in people from overseas. But Boston’s Northeastern University is doing something about […]

How Remote Workforce Collaboration and Productivity Are Improving Stephan Aarstol managed to convince billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban to invest in his company on the ABC TV show, “Shark Tank.” Now he’s out to convince the rest of us to buy into the notion that companies would prosper, and society would benefit, if we’d switch to […]

Employee Engagement: The Strategic Priority of HR Last week, I wrote about George Santino and his rags-to-riches story as a partner engineer at Microsoft, a story that’s chronicled in his newly released book, “Get Back Up: From the Streets to Microsoft Suites.” During his 20-year career at Microsoft, Santino gained a behind-the-scenes perspective of one […]

How to Promote Yourself on the Job A lot of companies are acknowledging that management isn’t for everybody in the software development world, and they need to provide the means for developers to advance in their careers, and to be rewarded accordingly, outside of the management track. One such company is Acquia, a digital experience […]

5 Ways to Kick-Start Employee Energy Dana W. White is one of those people you imagine being able to sit down and have lunch with, just so you can pick her brain and gain insight from her perspectives. While that opportunity hasn’t arisen, an opportunity did recently arise that was, perhaps, the next best thing: […]

6 Tips for Hiring Remote Tech Employees It’s been more than a decade since I wrote a column titled “IT Inbreeding,” in which I expressed my concerns surrounding a growing shift away from offshore outsourcing to what many were calling “rural sourcing” — outsourcing IT work to delivery centers in low-cost areas of the United […]

10 Best Tech Jobs in the U.S. in 2016 One of the really cool things I’ve been able to do over the years in this job is speak with people who played a role in shaping the software industry. Those are invariably fascinating conversations, so I had very high expectations when I was invited to […]

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk Last week, I wrote a post about SAP NS2 and its CEO Mark Testoni, and how the German software giant managed to gain a foothold in providing technology for secure and sensitive U.S. government operations. What warrants elaboration here is the general nature of some of […]