Building a Digital Footprint That Will Get You Hired in Tech

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We are living in a world where nearly 80 percent of employers scan the online reputations of potential recruits. Yet most people, especially students, don’t think about their online persona in professional terms. When they do, it’s generally for defensive reasons. Recruitment agencies and career counselors consistently warn job seekers, “Be careful with your online actions because they could make …

Learning on the Fly: Rapid Tech Shift Requires a New Type of Thinker

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If you study the sciences–especially in computing, networking, or marketing–you’re probably aware that things are changing at an astonishing pace. But truth be told, for most educators, there is an even bigger challenge: making sure that what they teach in school remains relevant long enough to get their students into the workforce. As crazy as this sounds, it’s true, and …

Do CIOs See Digital as Genuinely Disruptive?

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Digital disruption is occurring quickly, so quickly, in fact, that the pace can feel overwhelming. From social to mobile to apps to BYOD, as digital disruption continues to proliferate the challenges faced by CIOs are many. We have seen old industries crushed and billion dollar companies rise from thin air as new business models opened the door to innovative, new …

Will WebRTC Grab a Hold of the Video Communication Market

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When people talk about WebRTC, it’s common to hear things like “Video in your browser. How convenient!” or “It solves the interoperability issues, right? We no longer need to worry about what programs people are using because we can just launch the link in our browser and join the meeting.” I know, it seems simple; and in many cases it …

Social Collaboration without Tech boundaries! #Cloudtalk

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Hosts Brian Fanzo & Daniel Newman discuss a wide range of topics ranging around the future of work, cloud computing and technologies impact on today’s digital business. The month of  October is focused around business needs in the cloud! Follow hashtag #CloudTalk on twitter to join the conversation! #Cloudtalk Tweets This event is sponsored by SAP & PivotPoint.IO.  Download SAP’s Newest …

BYOD: Is the Debate Over?

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This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. For the longest time, we hotly debated whether or not BYOD is good for business. And why not? Few trends in IT have managed to generate as much hype and headache in recent times as BYOD. Over the past few years, the surveys and studies regarding BYOD …

Small Innovation May Be the Biggest Innovation in Tech

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We frequently hear things like, “The next mobile device will have an X percent bigger screen than the last one.” Do these things sound impressive anymore? Not in a world where a new device update hits the market every couple of months, if not weeks. At the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), people weren’t that excited (at least not …

Is Unified Communications, Unifying Communications

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In the integration space, particularly the AV integration space, unified communications (UC) has long been a highly discussed, yet rarely understood topic. For many years, AV professionals have been debating about what is included in a unified communications solution—is it voice and video? Does it include messaging or presence? What about real time web collaboration? And how is social media …

Smarter Digital Signage Inevitable in the Workplace (and All Places)

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Whenever we talk about the workplace these days, the conversation is hardly complete without some high-tech words being tossed around— the cloud, big data, the Internet of Things—each of which signifies a new type of work, and work environment. But are these things also relevant to the role of digital signage in the corporate space? Yes, of course they are. …

Bringing Customers to the Center Requires Technology Foresight

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We live in a world where there’s so much discussion going on about “customer centricity.” Brands are rethinking their strategies to become more customer-centric. While business is always about customers, putting them at the core of your digital strategy is now front and center. Empowered by Tech Due to endless access to the Internet, social, and mobile, today’s customers are …