Be the Best of Whatever You Are By Douglas Malloch If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley — but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, And some highway happier make; If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass — But the liveliest bass in the lake! We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew, There's something for all of us here, There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do, And …
By Kimberly Weisul | April 11, 2011 It happens all too often: Put a bunch of really smart people in a room, tell them to solve a problem, and watch as they dissolve into blathering idiocy. Okay, maybe it's not all that bad. But we've all seen groups of supposedly smart people who just can't work well together. That's because, according to recent research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, and Union College, raw smarts doesn't have much to do with team performance. The researchers placed nearly 700…
By Jack Wallen | April 7, 2011, 1:38 PM PDT One of the most important things I do as a writer is collaborate. Whether this is with my editor, with another writer, or with a team, the ability to collaborate takes my work from pedestrian to professional like no other aspect of writing. But to gain those benefits, I need to use collaboration tools that enable me to work successfully with others. Here's a list of tools worth checking out. You might notice that not all tools listed were actually designed specifically for the task of collaborati…
Whatever your business, content management system software (CMS) is designed to store, organize, create, publish, process and power all your online endeavors. Based on our extensive experience utilizing these applications (yes, there are those of us who use these CMS systems off the clock for our own sites), we came to the understanding that a CMS is a natural, more powerful extension of the blog concept, and decided CMS systems require a separate site to explore and reveal these emerging and dynamic applications. We delve more into the…
By Erik Eckel | April 5, 2011, 1:49 PM PDT IT professionals spending any significant time in server rooms know the importance of good quality keyboard/video/mouse switches. Plagued with a poor performing KVM switch, even mundane tasks — such as cleanly rebooting systems, confirming successful backup operations, downloading and installing OS updates, and completing general troubleshooting routines — become needlessly complicated. Whenever you buy a new KVM switch, you want to make sure it meets your requirements. Review this list to avoid commo…
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