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As discuss in the last post about organization & results. No matter how smart or skillful you are, without organizational skill it will really impact your results. I always had trouble with executing plans & ideas, not until my job required me to coordinate project tasks. It took me a while to find ways to [ READ MORE ]
The first NXNE interactive was in Toronto 2 weeks ago. (it’s the canadian cousin of SXSW) The location was at small & decent, but when compared to SXSWi, it’s like the Ontario soccer finals vs going to the World Cup. Both were great, but in completely different magnitude. At SXSWi, I was afraid of to [ READ MORE ]
The “Content Strategy FTW” session really got me to really look at what’s missing for my blog. In essence, I want to show the the good, the bad & the ugly soft skills can impact IT & how to learn from it. New Mission: ”Soft Side of IT: Bettering Soft Skills in Information Technology“ Honestly [ READ MORE ]
The return to Soft Side of IT! From working on more projects, these posts will be about my experience and thoughts working in It & with technology. Especially on a ERP systems implementation project in 2010 that I am in. With 15 month of being in this project, there are tons that I have seen. [ READ MORE ]
I caught a show called ‘Family Restaurant’ at 5am yesterdays, it was just one of those day that you can’t fall back to sleep. It was showcasing the son of a chinese family restaurant trying to change handwritten ordering system with an computer solution. The dad didn’t want this change, while the son was ecstatic [ READ MORE ]
In celebration of Barack Obama winning the US Presidency, here is a great talk with Barack Obama This was the first Obama appearance I saw & it blew me away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4yVlPqeZwo This talk was at Google in 2007, where he talked about: - Committing Science & Innovation - Open internet & net neutrality - Google for government [ READ MORE ]
Here is a insight talk from David Pogue: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells.html Why the soft side matters? David Pogue describes the issues pretty well with talk at the TED conference. It’s funny & a few 2 minute techie show tunes. In systems I have used, there is usually a plethora of functionalities; but most of the them takes [ READ MORE ]
My last post mentioned having a ITtoolbox blog & this is the URL: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/soft-side-of-it My future postings from this site will also be on IT Toolbox. With this new affiliation, let’s update the purpose of this blog. This blog is to discuss the soft side of Information Technology & making IT folks more relatable. As [ READ MORE ]
Procrastination is pretty universal & this also affects developers. I remember when I was programming in university; I would try to solve the entire problems/assignments in my head before I start typing a line of code. This is a way of planning a solution for programmer. Although this only works until it reaches a certain [ READ MORE ]
“Can we move the logo a bit higher?” All developer & web designer probably hear something similar to this before. After days/weeks/months of work to make the system work, rather than commenting on the hard work or the brilliant way to solution a request, the user first comment was on the trivial part. It drives [ READ MORE ]
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