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Book Review: The e-Policy Handbook (2nd Ed.)

August 13, 2010
ePolicy Handbook cover

Does your company have a set of policies for working online?  For all that I advocate using social media tools at work to improve productivity, you have to do it in a controlled and secure way.  The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Internet [...]

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Book review: All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy

May 17, 2010

Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc., has put all his wisdom about time tracking into a book called All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource.  It’s not that long and it’s quick to read and while I wouldn’t rate it as one of the top business books I have [...]

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The business value of social media

March 22, 2010

Earlier in the month I attended a womenintechnology event about the business value of social media – something I’m particularly interested in, given the topic of my forthcoming book.
The evening was held at the Intellect offices on Russell Square, and the room was packed.  It was a pretty small room, in comparison to some of [...]

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Projec.to: it’s magic!

January 11, 2010

I get contacted often by people asking me to review their software, and I am really bad at getting round to it.  A book sits on my desk until I have reviewed it – a constant reminder that I have reading to do, but software… it’s just an email with a link buried in my [...]

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Interview with Christophe Borlat

January 6, 2010

Last month I looked at the new features in Genius Project.  I wanted to find out more about how the software works with Microsoft Project, so I spoke to Christophe Borlat, General Manager of Genius Inside.
There are lots of project management tools out there today doing interesting things, what makes Genius Project different?
Genius Project is [...]

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Review: Projecturf

September 21, 2009

Today I’ve been oven drying some of my huge haul of cherry tomatoes, so that I can store them in olive oil and keep them a bit longer.  Honestly, I am fed up with fresh tomato salads, and there are still lots to pick, if they ever turn red.  Otherwise I will be getting out [...]

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Making projects work: achieving project success

June 11, 2009

This is the last part in the Making Projects Work video debate series that has been running this week.  It’s short enough to watch during your tea break and the speakers talk about embedding change, better ways to do lessons learned and continuous improvement.

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Gadget etiquette

May 27, 2009

This month in the Office Goddess series, I want to look at using your gadgets at work.
You love your laptop, right?  It goes where you go and it’s oh so handy for meetings.  Well, personally I’m a pen and paper girl but if it’s really important and will make things easier I will tote around [...]

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New stats on women in IT make old news

April 6, 2009

You would have thought that with the research on pay gaps and the Exemplar Employer report we would be past discussing whether women get a fair deal at work and would have moved on to what people are actually going to do about it.
BCS, e-skills UK and Intellect, in association with the Department for Business [...]

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For Ada: an interview with Sophie Kain (part two)

March 24, 2009

This is part two of my interview with Sophie Kain, director of Prior Kain Ltd, in honour of Ada Lovelace Day.  Missed the first bit?  Find it here.
One of the biggest issues for programme managers (well, for me) is the transient nature of a team over the lifecycle of work, especially when a programme stretches [...]

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