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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

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Mehta earned a Certified Information Security Auditor certification in 2002 when, he says, “there were only 1,600 such certified professionals globally.” This approach is similar to what several regulated or licensed professions require of their practitioners to ensure their skills remain current.

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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Financial market traders started using IM because it was useful, but banks were concerned about security and audit trails. Services then became available that provided secure, auditable IM. This is turning out to be a very similar story to instant messaging in financial services. The same thing is happening with social networks.

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

On one-level “network-centric warfare” (see for example the US Department Defence report to Congress on this) has grown to prominence – or even predominance – in military strategic thinking over the last four years. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] Categories Business relationships(47) Collaboration(51) Enterprise 2.0(134)

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Living Networks - Chapter 3: The New Organization - Free Download and Commentary - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In the chapter I identified four risks that were holding back executives from creating value across boundaries: * Information loss * Systems security * Reputation * Ability to extract value These themes are echoed in the draft Enterprise 2.0 Governance Framework I created earlier this year. Arguably Enterprise 2.0

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2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Second is that so many employees are already using online applications and web tools because it’s easier than asking IT to get things done, so companies will prefer to offer them robust, secure applications rather than incur the risk of things not being done well. Third is that using Web 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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Why we will all have robot pets in the future - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Being a bit of a home-security nut, the idea of an autonomous pal roaming about and keeping a robotic eye on the house - with the capability to alert you if trouble arises – will be of strange comfort. Another one Ive read about recently that I cant wait to see for real is the Meccano Spyke. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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Social networks, data mining, and intelligence - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Supposedly the numbers called by tens of millions of Americans have been provided by AT&T, BellSouth, and Verizon to the NSA. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[

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