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• 10 tips for making self-evaluations meaningful

  14-06-2017 23:32
  
  Whether you're a manager or employee, reviews aren't a particularly popular subject; self-evaluations are particularly despised. It’s hard to know how to highlight your achievements and accomplishments without sounding like a braggart, not to mention that it often seems companies file evaluations away and never use them to improve performance. But there are steps you can take to ensure your self-evaluations help to advance your own career and provide valuable feedback to your organization.
  
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• 61% off Jackery Bolt 6,000mAh Power Bank with Built-in Lightning and Micro USB Cables - Deal Alert

  14-06-2017 23:27
  
  Reduce some of that cable clutter with the ultra compact Jackery Bolt 6,000mAh external battery charger that features a built-in Apple Lighting cable for your iPhone or iPad and a built-in micro-USB cable for other mobile devices. With an additional open USB port you can charge up to 3 devices at once. Powerful 6000 mAh capacity can fully charge an iPhone 6 at up to 3 times.  The Jackery Bolt averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 240 people on Amazon (read reviews), where its list price of
  
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• The 13 most valuable IT certifications today

  14-06-2017 22:23
  
  In IT, experience is king. Yet IT certifications remain a valuable tool for advancing your career. IT certifications give junior-level workers an opportunity to gain more resume-worthy experience in the IT industry. For tenured employees, certifications help you continually grow and adapt your skillset to fit the changing landscape of IT. Because there are an overwhelming number of IT certifications offered today, it’s important to do your research – some are more valuable than other
  
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• BrandPost: How to create a customer-centric B2B commerce experience

  14-06-2017 20:54
  
  B2B ecommerce keeps growing...and growing: New research from Forrester estimates that B2B eCommerce will reach $1.2 trillion and account for 13.1% of all B2B sales in the US by 2021. By the end of 2017, Forrester expects eCommerce to reach $889 billion and represent 11% of total B2B sales in the US, while the total percentage of B2B buyers that research their purchases online will rise from 38% to 55% over the next four years.To succeed in B2B digital commerce, however, companies have to meet co
  
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• Nokia rolls out its first 'petabit-class' router

  14-06-2017 20:06
  
  With internet traffic set to triple over the next five years or so, according to recent estimates from Nokia and Cisco Systems, Nokia thinks the time is right for a new range of high-end routers that can boost core capacity by a factor of six -- and even help 10-year-old devices to double their capacity.Nokia predicts that by 2022, total internet traffic will reach 330 exabytes per month. (That's 330 million terabytes). For its part, Cisco forecasts it will grow at 24 percent per year from a bas
  
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• BrandPost: Meet Your Lion Tamer – Your Security Department

  14-06-2017 19:13
  
  Information in today’s era of data breach, e-discovery, and forensics investigations is much like a pride of lions in the wild. The only way to manage and corral the lions is to invite a lion tamer into the mix.The lion tamer in the IT sector is none other than the security department, compliance officer, audit team, legal department, and forensics investigators. While the skill and competency of a lion tamer are easy to gauge based on the obedience of the lion, the road ahead for the info
  
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• Imagination adds safety, resilience to processor for IoT

  14-06-2017 18:51
  
  Picture this: The networking stack on the main pump controller has crashed, and you need to reboot it -- but it's 20 meters underground, on another continent -- and there's no-one on site to hit 'reset'.Or you're bowling along the highway and one of the processor cores in your self-driving car gets zapped by a cosmic ray (yes, this could actually happen). The software can't tell whether the resulting error is a transient glitch or a hardware fault, so limits you to 50 kilometers per hour for saf
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Telecom cost control – how to get the most savings for the least amount of effort and risk

  14-06-2017 18:01
  
  If there’s one thing telecom has taught us over the last decade, it’s that there’s nothing easy about telecom. It’s a notoriously difficult category of spend to keep in check – especially as it relates to cost and usage. Voice, data and network costs span multiple providers and geographies. Invoicing is usually decentralized, and the details are unintelligible. Carrier and provider offerings are all over the map. And, even with commoditized pricing for most services
  
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• Durf het huidige verdienmodel ter discussie te stellen

  14-06-2017 16:09
  Door Bart van der Mark – Het zal inmiddels tot de meeste boardrooms zijn doorgedron­gen: technologie is al lang niet meer louter een middel om de bedrijfsvoering efficiënter te maken. De impact is zo groot dat het hele bedrijfstakken op z’n kop kan zetten en de impact op de economie als geheel is... lees meer
  
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• 43% off Dyna-Glo DGO1176BDC-D Vertical Offset Charcoal Smoker - Deal Alert

  14-06-2017 15:50
  
  For a truly distinct flavor, smokers offer you a wealth of custom cooking options. Simply choosing a different type of wood chip can vastly alter the flavor of whatever food you’ve placed on the grates. This Dyna-Glo smoker offers you not only these delicious benefits but those associated with using charcoal as your fuel source as well. This product’s vertical design includes six height-adjustable cooking grates and 1,176 inches of cooking space. The offset functionality of this
  
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• $71 Off Samsung Chromebook Plus Convertible Touch Laptop - Deal Alert

  14-06-2017 15:36
  
  The Samsung Chromebook Plus adapts to whatever you’re doing. Use it like a laptop to reply to emails or to work on a paper. When you need a break, flip the screen so you can play games or catch up on your latest book. Make your ideas personal and your notes clear with the built-in pen. Whether you’re doodling, sketching, or personalizing a photo, the built-in pen will help you get every detail just right. You can even use the pen to take a screenshot, magnify, or unlock the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How big data is disrupting education

  14-06-2017 15:22
  
  From healthcare to hospitality, and retail to real estate, big data is having an impact in all industries – and education is no exception. Educators are using big data to identify weak points in the education system, improve teaching methods, and gain a better understanding of student life.Data analytics has such a widespread effect on the education system, it can be hard to narrow down the changes it causes. So, to better understand those changes, let’s examine a few of the ways tha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital transformation-driven productivity

  14-06-2017 15:19
  
  Digital Transformation (DX) is best known for its external facing successes in generating new revenue streams, creating new industries, and transforming business models. Don't underestimate, however, the incredible power of DX when turned inward toward enhancing internal organizational productivity.I'm drawing a distinction here between internal and external DX because:The needed skill sets are different.
  It impacts different parts of the organization, thus, the organizational politics are diffe
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital Ecosystems: Do Not Do It Alone!

  14-06-2017 15:14
  
  As software becomes an increasingly large part of an enterprise’s external expression, traditional physical ecosystems—such as suppliers, resellers, and retailers—need to be supplemented, and in some cases supplanted, by new software ecosystems.Consider Walgreens, a customer of my employer, Google. To interact with customers, Walgreens doesn’t merely operate physical stores and provide first-party apps and websites. On the contrary, it also expresses core services—s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: When it comes to digital, one style of C-suite doesn’t fit all

  14-06-2017 14:59
  
  A few years ago, industry-watchers predicted the meteoric rise of a new entrant to the C-Suite, the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). One analyst reported that by 2015, 25% of companies would have a CDO to manage the digitization of companies’ revenue and their services. Another commentator called it the new “it” position for fast-growing companies.History hasn’t quite seen these stats come to fruition. Only 7% of organizations have a leader with the CDO title today, according
  
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• CIO Career Coach: Rethink shadow IT

  14-06-2017 14:00
  
  Welcome back to “CIO Career Coach,” a video series I created with CIO.com and IDG.tv. This season, we’re discussing the skills that top CIOs are developing to be successful in the new era of IT. In this episode we are talking about shadow IT and how CIOs can shift their approach from trying to rein in a pesky problem to thinking of shadow IT as “end user innovation.” Ten years ago, the term “shadow IT” described the staff that your business par
  
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• How to build a highly effective AI team

  14-06-2017 12:00
  
  Once a niche research specialty, AI is fast becoming a vital aspect of the IT strategy at many businesses. The maturity of data science and machine learning tools, as well as the rise of readily accessible machine learning platforms in the cloud, are fueling this trend, enabling businesses to explore new ways to extract high business value from existing and accumulating data.But to make the most of AI in the enterprise, you have to have a strong team of AI practitioners in place. Here, we take a
  
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• Wigo4it kiest HeadFirst voor flexibele inhuur

  14-06-2017 09:23
  Overheidscoöperatie Wigo4it heeft bij de onlangs uitgevoerde aanbesteding voor de inhuur van flexibel personeel HeadFirst geselecteerd als een van haar opdrachtnemers.De kennisbemiddelaar, onderdeel van HeadFirst Source Group, gaat Wigo4it vanaf 1 juli 2017 voorzien van ICT-professionals, interim managers,... lees meer
  
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• BrandPost: What’s so funny ‘bout peace, love and understanding at the IoT edge?

  14-06-2017 00:27
  
   What’s so funny ‘bout peace, love and understanding at the IoT edge? “As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.”So begins one of Elvis Costello’s best songs, (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding. He wasn’t singing about the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT), where connected devices with sensors are collecting data 24/7, but he might as well have been. Because the edge is rife with
  
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