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08 May 2008 01:36

ACM, 5 Year Anniversary, and Customer Service

Time moves by and I was surprised to get a coffee mug in the mail from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) announcing my fifth anniversary as a member, and also received an email with the same message. I joined ACM originally because it was part...
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18 April 2008 01:44

Professional Development Links

Someone asked me for these recently as they predate the blog. All were posted on SSC over the past couple years. Professional Development Beginning Professional Development Time for Training
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15 April 2008 01:00

Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 2

It's always good to find a book or two on a subject when you want to be good at something. I grabbed two from Amazon, the first being The Elements of Mentoring ($15) and I've found it to be a very good book. It's actually written by a mentor...
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14 April 2008 01:47

Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 1

Mentoring is something I think a lot of us wish for and that few of us find. Few businesses encourage it and even if they do, in my experience it's absolutely about chemistry - can't be an arranged marriage! It's been on my mind lately as...
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03 April 2008 01:14

Other Thoughts on Brand Building

Just a link today, but a good one on Building a Powerful Reputation that is a nice follow up to my recent posts about Building YOUR Brand and Building Your Brand - Part 2 . The link is from DoshDosh, a site you may find very useful if you decide to go...
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13 March 2008 01:41

Building YOUR Brand - Part 2

Yesterday I posted Building YOUR Brand that described a formula for becoming rich and famous. Well, perhaps richer than you are now anyway. It's fine to have a formula, but in practice there's more to it than having and following the formula....
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12 March 2008 01:14

Building YOUR Brand

Between teaching classes, attending community events, and participating in the local user group I get to have a lot of interesting conversations from a diverse group of people. Diverse in the positive sense. One question I get occasionally is along the...
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07 March 2008 01:29

Are All Meetings Bad?

I was mildly amused by my friend Steve Jones blog post Finding a Direction about not really wanting to spend a couple days in meetings. The amusement is in part because I know he's just as contrarian as I am, but really it's because we have an...
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18 February 2008 10:18

Management Article Posted on SSC

I wrote Management because we typically get it so wrong in our line of work. Nothing better than working for a great manager except working for one that is also a great leader, and perhaps nothing worse than working for a terrible manager. The tragedy...
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29 November 2007 01:07

Why Don't People Go to Free Training?

I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a former IT manager my team was always pushing to go to a class or a conference to "maintain their skills" but surprisingly...
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11 September 2007 15:18

How Many Good Hours Do Employees Work?

You might call me a bean counter, but it's a fact that every manager needs to manage the distractions that take time away from the real work that needs to be done by their team. At my last job I tried to never let meetings and other interruptions...
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30 August 2007 14:00

Blogging on Blogs & Professional Development

Steve posted an interesting editorial on blogs at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=263&messageid=393904 and the follow up discussion was pretty interesting. Read that if you have time, but the short story was he recommended...
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07 August 2007 21:28

Professional Development Plans Article on SSC

This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to spend time thinking about, sometimes from a lack of time but just as often from lack of focus. Of course Im not sure that the people that would benefit...
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02 August 2007 13:08

Revisit What You Know - Published on SSC

The article went live earlier this week. Didn't quite accomplish what I had hoped I think, which was to point out that we all need to be open minded about solutions, best practices, and letting the occasional hack go to production. In hindsight the...
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