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Fantastic insights on the inspiring future of crowd business models

Trends in the Living Networks

I have just had my mind blown. I have got off a call with three of the speakers in the Future of Crowd Business Models session at Crowd Business Models Summit , which will be held in San Francisco on October 22, the day before the major crowdsourcing conference CrowdConf. What I heard from the speakers on what they will cover and the conversation we had was amazing.

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Practical Analytics: What A CIO Needs To Know (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit Practical analytics is more than just pretty pictures. Every CIO knows that analytics is all the rage in almost every company now and has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. The CEO has been reading those magazine articles that say now that databases have grown large enough to hold virtually every piece of data that the company collects and servers have become cheap enough to throw at any number crunching problem that the IT department might have.

Strategy 100
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Big Data's Managerial Challenges - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, October 09, 2012. Big Datas Managerial Challenges.

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VMworld EMEA Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

'This is a liveblog of the keynote at Day 2 of VMworld EMEA in Barcelona, Spain. Sorry for the lack of a liveblog for yesterday’s keynote; I was tied up in other meetings. At 9:02 AM, Steve Herrod takes the stage. Herrod sets the stage that today will focus primarily on end-user computing, providing a recap of yesterday’s discussions around infrastructure and management.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Crowdsourcing workshops in NYC: Crowds for marketing and Crowds for media and content

Trends in the Living Networks

I wrote Getting Results From Crowds to provide a broad view of the rapidly growing role of crowds in business and society, and how to get the best outcomes from using crowdsourcing. From there, I have been delving into what I see as some of the most important specific applications of crowds, including business models, marketing, and media. I will be sharing some of that work, and bringing together some of the most talented and experienced people in these spaces at a series of events in the US in

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Mick's IT Blogs: Adobe CS6 Error 1603

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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2nd floor Admin - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. 2nd floor Admin. by Brian Katz on October 8, 2012 · 0 comments. I was having an interesting conversation tonight on Twitter with Rafal Los about OSes and security. Rafal was talking about the difference between home users and enterprise users and the fact that maybe we needed two different OSes, one for work and one for home.

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Seven Questions to Evaluate IT Vendor’s Innovation Capabilities

Future of CIO

Businesses are looking for “absorptive capacity,” and innovation capability from their partners. Evaluating IT vendors is both art and science, besides five common criteria to evaluate the vendor’s attitude and aptitude we discussed earlier, innovation is a key capability for IT vendors to satisfy customers, but some may argue innovation itself is sometimes intangible, even ambiguous, how to manage vendor & trust them to deliver high-quality, flexible, and innovative service?

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Mick's IT Blogs: 12v 4-pin Power Cable Shorts the Computer Out

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Small is Beautiful

Nutanix

When you are selling for an emerging technology company, a lot of things go against you, such as brand recognition, marketing budget, size of installed base and lack of executive sponsorship in most accounts. But, at least when it comes to Nutanix, customer support is not one of them.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Why I'm Super Happy with Windows 8

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, October 12, 2012. Why I’m Super Happy with Windows 8. So ya, I’m a Microsoft employee, so I’m assimilated right? Yes and no. I believe in Microsoft, I understand where we’re going and I have insight into the future (of Microsoft) that the average person would not.

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Managing Your E-mail Inbox

Scott Lowe

'I tweeted earlier today that I managed to achieve “Inbox Zero” (an empty e-mail inbox) while at a major industry conference (I’m in Spain for VMworld EMEA). A follower on Twitter asked if I would share my “inbox secret” It’s not a secret, really, but I thought I’d share it here just in case others are interested in trying to emulate a similar methodology (or are just interested in getting control of your e-mail inbox).

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Me, me, It's all mine! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Me, me, It’s all mine! by Brian Katz on October 9, 2012 · 1 comment. These days – it doesn’t matter where you turn, every single news report about mobile talks about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Almost every week there is a new survey out, this one says 81% of companies are allowing BYOD, that one says that people are afraid about their privacy with BYOD, and another one talks about how many people have BYOD approved devices.

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The Emperor Has No Clothes!

Nutanix

If you are one of those early customers who made NetApp, we want you. If you are one of those business partners who made NetApp in your region and enjoyed healthy margins on every deal but are now seeing those margins slipping, we want you.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM!! (and.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, October 11, 2012. Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM!! (and Eval today!). Well, The product formerly known as Windows Small Business Server 2012, is finally at RTM! This was the last version of SBS I had the pleasure of working on, owning the storage system from the ground up as well as the initial design of the Online Backup functionality.

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Young Turks in the Enterprise

The Investing Edge

'There was a widely circulated news item recently that tried to explain the mindset of this year’s college freshmen, noting that, for them, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Kurt Cobain have always been dead. (Message to this generation: please do yourself a favor and delete a few LMFAO and Lady Gaga tunes from your iPod in favor of selections off Nirvana’s Bleach or In Utero ).