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Lessons Learned

Posted on April 24, 2010 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

Slideshare.net is one of my very favorite sites.  If you haven’t been blown there by the tides of the random web before you are missing out. SlideShare is the YouTube of PowerPoints. If you have worked in the 9 to…

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Posted in Employment, Geekery

Hacking the Job Hunt

Posted on February 15, 2010 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

Over the last couple of months lots of people have chatted me up about finding employment in the IT sector.  The economic ass-plosion of 2008 is still reverberating in 2010, and from the few datapoints I have seen in my…

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Posted in Employment, Geekery

Open Source in Obama’s Gov 2.0?

Posted on January 22, 2009 by mschwar99 — 1 Comment ↓

The inauguration has come and gone (wonkette.com) and as the Mall puts itself back together and licks the wounds left by 2 million interlopers and their discarded hand warmer wrappers, the Obama administration is taking office.  Since I am currently…

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Posted in .gov 2.0, Geekery

Business Case Uses for Enterprise Wikis

Posted on December 7, 2008 by mschwar99 — 1 Comment ↓

Many Web 2.0 technologies have been in use for several years now.  However, in most circles they are still solidly in the buzzword phase.  Especially for people outside of the web community and the wider technology circle, there is very…

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Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Geekery, Web 2.0

Construction Projects and Building Successful Wikis

Posted on October 31, 2008 by mschwar99 — No Comments ↓

A good wiki is hard to find, most are full of much more fail than knowledge.  Google around a bit and you will find countless numbers of wikis that started full of potential, but wound up with few contributors and…

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Posted in Geekery, Web 2.0, Wikis