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• Graham Jones Chair, Ashwin Kini Chair-elect, GITCA – on "24 Hours in the Cloud" and the IFIP World CIO Forum 2011

  Come and get your Cloud geek on! On April 19 th GITCA and Microsoft are running an event called “ 24 Hours in the Cloud ”. There will be 24 one hour sessions around the world covering a wide range of Cloud Computing topics. The presenters... Posted Mar 23 2011, 02:38 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, WCF, Microsoft, Interviews, Podcasts, Podcast, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Interviews, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Live Services, interview, ifip, Leadership, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, Cloud, Ignite Your Career, IgniteIT, Career Lessons, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, IT Man, Career Success, Word CIO Forum, 24 Hours in the Cloud, GITCA, World CIO Forum, IFIP World CIO Forum

• Husin Ahmad Vice-President ACS (a Xerox Company): Profound Insights from an Internationally Renowned Innovator and Senior Executive

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Husin Ahmad Vice-President ACS (a Xerox Company): Profound Insights from an Internationally Renowned Innovator and Senior... Posted Feb 14 2011, 09:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Management, Podcasts, Podcast, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Interviews, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Project Management, interview, China, ifip, Leadership, customer satisfaction, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Business Development, IP3, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, Computing Profession, IT Man, Career Success, Human Resources Management, HR

• Neil Leslie MS GM on Ballmer, World CIO Forum, the Cloud, MVPs, Best Resources WCF Channel 9 MIX MSDN TechNet, Leadership

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Neil Leslie, General Manager Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (DPE), past Vice President of MSIT, Microsoft... Posted Feb 07 2011, 09:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, WCF, Microsoft, TechNet, Bill Gates, Interviews, Collaboration, Management, Community, Podcasts, Podcast, Windows Live, Stephen Ibaraki, MSDN, Software Development, Steve Ballmer, IT Manager Interviews, MVP, IT Alignment, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, MIX, Channel 9, Live Services, IT Governance, interview, Software Deployment, software+services, China, ifip, Inspiration, Leadership, Business Productivity, customer satisfaction, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, Cloud, Ignite Your Career, CIO, ballmer, IgniteIT, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Business of IT, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, kinect, Computing Profession, Software Engineering, MS IT, IT Man, Career Success, c-level executives, cie, Chief Innovation Officer, Word CIO Forum, 24 Hours in the Cloud, Career Factor, GITCA, DPE

• ICTC and CIPS Announce Partnership To Advance Workforce and Professionalism in Canada

  OTTAWA - November 2010 - The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) and CIPS announced a strategic partnership to enhance workforce development and professionalism for the ICT sector across Canada. ICTC is drawing from its ICT Competency... Posted Nov 25 2010, 11:10 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, CIPS, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, ICTC

• Dr. Art Pyster Professor Stevens Institute; Deputy Executive Director SERC, Department of Defense; Fellow INCOSE

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview “Esteemed Executive, Scientist, Engineer, Educator; Dr. Art Pyster Distinguished Research Professor Stevens Institute;... Posted Aug 09 2010, 10:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Management, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Software Development, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, IT Alignment, Education, Industry Perspectives, Partners, Career Tips, Certifications, interview, Software Deployment, ifip, Leadership, Industry Trends, Accreditation, Ignite Your Career, Partnerships, IP3, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Scientist, Business of IT, Computing Science, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, Technology Review, Industry Standard, Computing Education, Computing Profession, Software Engineering, Department of Defense, IEEE-CS, INCOSE, SERC

• Adam Cole: Internationally Awarded Technology Executive and Serial Innovator Shares His Success Factors

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Adam Cole : Internationally Awarded Technology Executive and Serial Innovator who speaks on entrepreneurship, global industry... Posted Jul 19 2010, 11:22 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business Intelligence, Interviews, Management, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Software Development, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Adam Cole, Project Management, interview, Software Deployment, healthcare, ifip, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, customer satisfaction, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Business Development, Team Building, IP3, PMI, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Awards, ACM, Business of IT, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, Software Engineering, Personal Health Records, Health Informatics, Electronic Medial Records

• Leading International Authority and Scientist, Dr. Stephen Seidman, Dean Texas State University, CSAB President

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview “Leading International Authority and Scientist, Dr. Stephen Seidman , Dean Texas State University, CSAB President... Posted Jul 12 2010, 05:11 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, ifip, Industry Trends, Accreditation, Ignite Your Career, IEEE, IgniteIT, IP3, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Scientist, Computing Science, CSAB, Industry Standard, Computing Education, Computing Profession, Software Engineering

• Chats with Kelly Gotlieb, "the" Internationally Renowned Pioneer in Computing - Kelly talks about his work as Co-Chair of the ACM Awards Committee

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb , C.M., M.A., PhD.D. (University of Toronto), D. Math. (Hon., University of Waterloo), D. Eng... Posted May 09 2010, 01:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Interviews, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Innovation Awards, Inspiration, CIPS, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Youth in Technology, Career Lessons, Awards, ACM, Scientist, STEM, Turing Award, Nobel Prize of Computing, Computing Science, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, ACM Fellow, ISEF, CIPS Fellow, International Science and Engineering Fair

• Doug Ingersoll: Leading International Executive with Pearson Certification shares his deep insights into certification, social media, and publishing technology

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Doug Ingersoll : Leading International Executive with Pearson Certification shares his deep insights into certification... Posted May 07 2010, 06:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Social Media, Education, Industry Perspectives, Social Networking, Career Tips, Certifications, interview, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, publishing, Gen Y, IP3, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Certification Course, Skills and Careers, Corporate Training, Enrollments, Industry Standard, Author, Pearson

• Dr. Jan Cuny: National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Officer, Award-winning Research Scientist shares her insights into increasing participation and attracting diversity into computing and STEM disciplines

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Jan Cuny : National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Officer, Award-winning Research Scientist shares her insights... Posted May 05 2010, 06:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Women in Technology, interview, ifip, Inspiration, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Partnerships, Team Building, Youth in Technology, Gen Y, IP3, Diversity, Career Lessons, Professionalism, ACM, NCWIT, Scientist, National Center for Women and IT, STEM, Computing Science, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, Enrollments, Industry Standard, Coalition to Diversity Computing, Anita Borg Institute, A. Nico Habermann Award, Status of Women, Computing Research Association, National Center for Women in Technology, Grace Hopper Conference, ACM President's Award, Women of Vision Award

• Professor Andrew McGettrick, Pre-eminent Educator and Scientist, shares his views on education and the broader computing challenges

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Professor Andrew McGettrick , Pre-eminent Educator and Scientist, who shares his views on education and the broader computing... Posted May 03 2010, 06:38 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Women in Technology, interview, ifip, Inspiration, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Youth in Technology, Career Lessons, ACM, Scientist, Computing Science, Online learning, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, Enrollments, Industry Standard

• ACM-Infosys Foundation Award ($150K Prize), Eric Brewer on: entrepreneurship; achievements; future of mobile, smart phones, cloud computing, social networking; top predictions; new software development models; Kurzweil's singularity

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview ACM-Infosys Foundation Award Recipient, Eric Brewer : World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Leader for Tomorrow, Industry... Posted Apr 26 2010, 09:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Mobile, Interviews, Collaboration, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Software Development, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Social Media, Education, Industry Perspectives, Social Networking, Career Tips, Wireless Technology, interview, Software Deployment, Singularity, Innovation Awards, Inspiration, Semantic Web, World Economic Forum, Machine Learning, Leadership, web2.0, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Smartphones, Business Development, IP3, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Awards, ACM, Scientist, Computing Science, Skills and Careers, Kurzweil, ACM Mark Weiser Award, ACM Infosys Foundation Award, Wireless Hypothesis, Technology Review, Inktomi, Forbes, NASDAQ 100, InfoWorld, National Academy of Engineering, Collaborative Filtering, Industry Standard, USA.gov

• Dr. Joseph Turner-shares insights on the Seoul Accord, IFIP, ABET, Partnerships, Accreditation, Education and Credentials for IT professionals, Top Resources

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Joseph Turner , Internationally Awarded Authority in Computer Science and Education, Fellow ACM/ABET/CSAB, Chair of... Posted Apr 20 2010, 05:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Education, Industry Perspectives, Partners, Career Tips, Certifications, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Accreditation, Ignite Your Career, IEEE, UNESCO, Partnerships, Team Building, IP3, Diversity, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Digital Library, ACM, Scientist, STEM, Computing Science, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, ACM Fellow, Enrollments, Seoul Accord, ABET, CSAB

• Dr. Doug Terry, Top Scientist, Principal Researcher MS Research--shares his deep insights into distributed systems, mobile computing, the Cloud, managing data plus research and career lessons

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Top Scientist Dr. Doug Terry , Principal Researcher Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, past Chief Scientist CSL Xerox PARC... Posted Apr 14 2010, 05:12 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Mobile, Interviews, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Software Development, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Microsoft Research, Academia, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Wireless Technology, Live Services, interview, Software Deployment, software+services, Inspiration, Semantic Web, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Parallel Computing, Azure, Berkeley, Career Lessons, ACM, Scientist, Computing Science, ACM Fellow

• Dr. Maggie Johnson: Distinguished Researcher, Educator, Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends, IT benchmarking, computing education, teaching, and corporate training

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Maggie Johnson : Distinguished Researcher, Educator, Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends... Posted Mar 23 2010, 04:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business Intelligence, Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Management, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, IT Alignment, Education, Industry Perspectives, Tools & Utilities, Career Tips, Benchmarks, Women in Technology, Project Management, interview, ifip, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, stanford, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, AlignIT, Youth in Technology, IP3, Diversity, Career Lessons, Professionalism, ACM, Scientist, STEM

• Thought Leadership Series with Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks... Posted Feb 23 2010, 06:07 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Management, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, AlignIT, Business Development

• Nick Corcodilos--Shares his insights into the work landscape, job trends, working with headhunters

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Nick Corcodilos--Top Management Authority, Author, Writer, Speaker, and Headhunter. Nick Corcodilos is the host of Ask... Posted Feb 02 2010, 09:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcasts, Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, IgniteIT

• Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E4 - Developing your Leadership Qualities

  The Ignite Your Career webcast series was created as a result of your feedback that technical professionals needed help to develop those critical personal and professional skills that Technical Professionals so often neglect. We partnered with IT World... Posted Nov 09 2009, 11:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Podcast, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E3 - Selling Yourself

  The Ignite Your Career webcast series was created as a result of your feedback that technical professionals needed help to develop those critical personal and professional skills that Technical Professionals so often neglect. We partnered with IT World... Posted Nov 08 2009, 11:31 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Podcast, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E2 -Internal vs External training

  The Ignite Your Career webcast series was created as a result of your feedback that technical professionals needed help to develop those critical personal and professional skills that Technical Professionals so often neglect. We partnered with IT World... Posted Nov 07 2009, 11:26 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Podcast, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E1 - Industry Insights and Trends Podcast

  The Ignite Your Career webcast series was created as a result of your feedback that technical professionals needed help to develop those critical personal and professional skills that Technical Professionals so often neglect. We partnered with IT World... Posted Nov 06 2009, 11:16 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Podcast, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• “What have you been up to lately? How’s the IT department?” Ignite your Career – Episode 3

  Picture yourself walking into an elevator and having a senior executive standing in there. After the pleasant head nod, you press your floor button and stand to the side. After the doors close - the executive finally recognizes you and remembers you’re... Posted Sep 23 2009, 07:12 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcasts, Career Tips, CIPS, IT Manager Webcasts, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• Igniting Careers

  It’s never seems to be easy to find the time or justify the cost of career development training whether it’s for yourself or your team. It’s so easy to get absorbed in the day-to-day tasks that need your attention! However, without thinking about where... Posted Aug 31 2009, 10:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Webcasts, Ruth Morton, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career, AlignIT

• Career investment for you and your staff

  One of the things that I have no regrets about doing over my career was taking the time to invest in my personal skills. Everyone focuses on developing their technical skills through research, study, experience or training – but also investing in personal... Posted Feb 13 2009, 07:04 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcasts, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• Pssssst! Wanna leg up with your career?

  No… I’m not the guy with the trench coat asking if you want to buy the letter C, but I do want to make sure you’re in the know.  Talking with head-hunters / recruiters / IT Managers out there and there’s one thing they’ve told me again and again... Posted Feb 13 2009, 07:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcast, Career, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career