Career advice: Promising directions for a tech career

	If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat? | Stuart Kippelman: The neglected art of user training, and how to eliminate it
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	Career advice: Promising directions for a tech career Premier 100 IT Leader Dave Bellai also answers a question on getting a master's degree. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Top 10 Considerations for cloud computing As business users push for faster and easier ways to roll out applications, cloud usage is on the rise. As a result, many cloud projects are initiated outside the realm of IT – without the clear requirements or measurable objectives. "Top 10 Considerations for Cloud Computing" provides a checklist for taking a more strategic approach to cloud. Download your complementary checklist In this Issue If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat? Stuart Kippelman: The neglected art of user training, and how to eliminate it The scariest software project horror stories of 2012 Coworking offers employees more than office space RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat? Despite information technology's ever increasing role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. Read More Stuart Kippelman: The neglected art of user training, and how to eliminate it The most important part of any IT project is properly training the people who will be using it. In many ways the quality of the training and the number of help desk calls it drives is the most important measurement of a successful project. Yet all too often, IT teams treat training as an afterthought and don't properly staff or fund it. Read More WEBCAST: IBM SDN & The Future of Enterprise for Cloud & Business Agility Learn from IBM and guest speaker, principal analyst Andre Kindness of Forrester Research Inc., about software defined networking (SDN) and the future of enterprise networking in an informational webcast on Thursday, 6 December, 10:30 AM PT/1:30 PM ET. Register Now The scariest software project horror stories of 2012 Sure, plenty of enterprise software projects go just fine and end up giving customers all the things vendors promise: lower operating costs, streamlined operations and happier users. Read More Coworking offers employees more than office space Coworking promises to improve productivity while improving work-life balance. Whether you're an enterprise with remote employees who want a professional work environment or a start-up firm too small for your own office, you can benefit from coworking. Read More
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