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A salutary lesson in IT Security from the Entertainment Industry 26 Jul 2011 | 06:55 pm
Open standards and transparency in security. My client rejected this prose from a recent project I undertook. I will let you judge if this is relevant to recent security breaches. The precedent had ...
Are you communicating effectively? 28 May 2011 | 02:17 pm
Client messaging takes many forms. Are you doing a great job? Press one for sales, press two for accounts, press…! Technology improves productivity. The vendor’s brochure says so. It must be true! ...
Ouch! Your website is stale 26 May 2011 | 05:24 pm
Your website only gets one opportunity to make a first impression. I reviewed a number of Integrators and Resellers Websites prospecting for new clients.The title sums it up, ouch! Part of my qualifi...
Marketing needs planning. 9 Sep 2010 | 06:58 pm
Is marketing treated as a poor cousin in your organisation? Senior management spend vast amounts of time preparing account plans and sales budgets. Unfortunately, marketing usually comes in as a poor...
Mike Ryan – presentation to the AISA branch meeting – Jul 14th, 2010 19 Jul 2010 | 11:59 am
Will a data breach send you broke? If you listen to the spin doctors who head up IT Vendors marketing and PR departments you’d be certain that a data breach would destroy your business. Bad news sel...
The IT Department. Are they your organisations “Digital Police Force”? 4 Jul 2010 | 05:23 pm
Should the IT department be in the service delivery or digital enforcement role? An incident at airline Virgin Blue made headlines recently. The Sydney Morning Herald reported these comments on June...
Learn HTML 30 May 2010 | 07:01 pm
I am re-learning HTML. It’s been a long time since I was proficient, preferring WYSIWYG applications. New standards have emerged from the WC3 and it’s tough going – well for me anyway. If you don’t kn...
Free online directories for Australian businesses. 12 May 2010 | 04:36 pm
The best things in life are free? Maybe! I undertook an assignment for a client recently. The task was to research the types of associations and trade bodies out in the marketplace and discover the b...
The Compelling Security Event: Friend or Foe? 4 May 2010 | 05:45 pm
“A Compelling Event occurs when the cost of the status quo exceeds the cost of change” Careers cut short. Compelling events often damage IT Professionals careers and in some cases result in their em...
Who’s doing a great marketing job out there? 4 May 2010 | 04:48 pm
Let your eyes and ears do more market reconnaissance. I used to enjoy asking my peers and colleagues who they think are doing a great job with their marketing campaigns. 10% would nominate their main...
