Kachina Shaw

22 Android Apps for Meeting Success If I had to name one way that any employee could become a hero, it would be by fixing the broken ways we often conduct workplace meetings. You don’t have to be the boss to do it. You don’t even have to be the meeting leader. You just have […]

Transforming IT from a Department of ‘No’ to a Business Enabler Most articles about the end-of-support for Windows XP, for over a year, have resembled GCN.com’s today: Microsoft Ends Support for XP Next Month. Are You Ready? Good advice on how to assess use of XP in your organization and options for deciding how to […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 When I asked Karen Purcell, founder of STEMspire, a nonprofit that supports and inspires young women to explore a future in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM fields, about what she’s learned on the topic of how best to provide that support through mentorship, she told me: […]

Tech Employment Picture Bright for Start of 2014 An article published at The New York Times over the weekend and republished at CNBC and elsewhere gives an overview of a class-action lawsuit that seeks billions of dollars in damages for San Jose area engineers. The suit claims long-term illegal no-poaching agreements among the highest-ranking executives […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 What if a significant number of large corporations, perhaps within one data-rich industry, signed onto the concept of putting people ahead of analytics, and a set of principles supporting this concept? Rather than keeping Big Data analytics opaque, and leaving their customers to guess and/or suspect that they […]

Landing the Job: Five People to Include on Your Reference List Starting today, LinkedIn users will see more information about other users who have viewed their profiles on the professional social networking site. LinkedIn is adding some simple data about industries and job titles to its summary of profile visitors, and simple analytics aggregating those […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Shadow IT in the Enterprise The battle against shadow IT has been lost. Eventually, we’ll stop calling it shadow IT, too. The ability for employees and business units to procure devices and software outside the traditional IT channels in order to efficiently collaborate, communicate and get their jobs done is creating […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 Every year to 18 months or so, the issue of dwindling mainframe skills within the enterprise IT professional community raises its head. And with every year that goes by, the issue gets a little more problematic, even though some are trying to advance training and development opportunities around […]

Top Five Industries Impacted by Data Encryption Challenges in 2014 The ninth edition of one of the longest-running and most comprehensive studies of encryption strategies and practices, the 2013 Global Encryption Trends Study, conducted by Ponemon Institute for Thales e-Security, finds progress and growth in implementation, and also where some of the cracks are. This […]

In the workplace, thank you notes are most often mentioned in the context of job searches. That is, thank you notes are mostly written by job seekers who are trying to become insiders at a company, and only because it is conventional wisdom that you must do so after an interview. But thank you notes […]

Top Five Industries Impacted by Data Encryption Challenges in 2014 In publishing its “Security Research Cyber Risk Report 2013,” an annual update, HP has delved into a number of the most vexing contradictions in security and risk management. The report’s goal, states HP, is “to provide security information that can be used to understand the […]

Toughest Cities to Recruit Tech Talent Layoffs of as many as 15,000 employees at Dell have been rumored for the last couple of days, and now increasingly conflicting accounts of the potential cuts are flying. The Register reports that its sources say the company’s restructuring plan includes layoffs of 15,000 or more, in all departments, […]