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Tuesday, 2 March 2010 | Jason Slater

“I wrote the code and put it out there” – Tim Berners-Lee

If you want to take a look into what the future of information technology holds for us you could take your pointer from Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia … Read More

Introduction To Managing Technology in a Small and Medium Enterprise

Wednesday, 20 January 2010 | Jason Slater

After managing Information technology systems for the last 20+ years, in a number of different size companies, I have learned there isn’t always scope, budget, or resource available for implementing formal service management frameworks.

If you do have resources available there are many very useful frameworks available (see Technology Management Frameworks) which could help formalise and proactively drive your management infrastructure.

However, especially in the SME arena, time and budget is usually very tight. So, with this in mind I have set out some of the key areas which you really should consider when managing information technology in your workplace.

These key areas including Governance, Strategic Planning, Operational Matters, Mobility, and Personal Development and each is highlighted below with a further breakdown of key sub-sections. There section will be expanded upon in future articles.

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Getting Your Business On The Map

Wednesday, 13 January 2010 | Jason Slater

We all know about Google Maps and its constantly expanding and evolving services, including navigation, business finding, and its more recent street view – but what about other providers of business listing information?

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Find Out What Google Really Knows About You

Friday, 13 November 2009 | Jason Slater

Have you checked your Google Dashboard yet? This is not the iGoogle dashboard with widgets but the Google Dashboard which tells you what information Google has about each of your Google related accounts.

It is early days for … Read More

Visualise your data assets with Constellation Roamer

Friday, 28 August 2009 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

Searching through pages of textual information trying to find connections and relationships between information items is time consuming and not very intuitive. Being able to visualise information and explore links can speed up the process and often lead to interesting … Read More