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Youth Olympics virtual world to debut early 2010
News First-ever Olympic virtual world will be built by ST Electronics, and may be extended to education and e-government after the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
Tags: Web sites, E-government, Singapore, earnings per share, entertainment, CEO, virtual world, financial, team, Web sites
New manager has to deal with complaints from his former peers
Insight Recently promoted, this new manager has to fend off company policy complaints from the staff that used to be in his peer group.
Boot camp initiation for new IT staffers boosts retention rates
Insight New employees often face a long learning curve, both in terms of their new roles and understanding business goals.
Social networking risk: Managing the inevitable
Techguide The enterprise needs to shift its attention to a more insidious potential use of social networking sites--social engineering activities.
Tags: Business security, Data security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Friend, Friendship, Survey, social engineering, Tom Olzak, phone
Systems administrator's role changing via the cloud
News Commoditization of e-mail services, instant messaging. document storage and backups via the cloud is rendering many systems-administrator functions obsolete, says Google's sysadmin.
Tags: Desktops, Help desk, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Search Engine, Cloud Computing, system monitoring, Computer, Help desk, Nintendo Wii
Mentoring helps new managers gain skills and confidence
Insight Mentors can help novice IT managers travel their new and uncertain terrain. Here are a few pointers on building mentoring relationships that work.
Net safety ads star on big screen
News Hard-hitting advertisements calling for children to wise up to the dangers of Internet pedophiles are screened for the first time in the United Kingdom.
Case to Levin: Let's make a deal
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The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Upping morale: Whose job is it?
Insight Who has which part when it comes to whipping up morale? The manager, or team members?
Tags: Human resources
Developing your 'vendor viability plan'
Insight If one of your key vendors goes belly up, that could hurt your business. Therefore, IT managers need to monitor the business performance of major vendors to ensure that they will continue providing the goods and services that are required. This column takes a look at how to develop a vendor viability plan, and the questions you should ask yourself.
Drinking at the virtual water cooler
News IM offers co-workers more efficient ways to work--and gossip.
Recession Camp--the cure for dot-bomb blues
News The volunteer support group helps unemployed dot-commers survive the technology sector's downturn, largely by arranging social events where tech talk is off-limits.
Managers from hell ... and how to recognize them
Insight How to recognize 10 of the most dangerous IT manager species in the wild.
Tags: HR policies and procedures
Why does MySpace think I'm a horn dog?
Insight CNET News.com's Charles Cooper may have been late to the social-networking phenomenon, but even a Beatles-era boomer is jumping on the bandwagon.
