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• BrandPost: Funding Education and Innovation

  01-08-2017 22:06
  When it comes to funding innovation in your school system, it pays to know the rules around grant allocation. For magnet and charter schools, there are many options out there - but finding the right ones to fund your initiative takes time and research. How do you know where to start looking? With a little help from our experts, it's a lot easier.Connection recently partnered with Grants Office, LLC, Microsoft, and Intel for a series of webcasts on education funding. In our March 23, 2017 event,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Fresh insights on the information age and cybersecurity

  01-08-2017 20:20
  In June, I attended the TIA Connectivity Jam in Dallas, where I participated as a panel moderator and table ambassador on the topic of cybersecurity. The discussions were engaging and informative, and they introduced new ways of addressing the future of IoT, 5G, smart cities, data management, our workforce and more. Here, I share some fresh insights from the event related to the big-picture question of where the information age is taking us, along with the pressing challenge of securing our netw
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: For tech's sake! Another government tech plan?

  01-08-2017 19:52
  “Just dig a hole in the ground and throw money in it” was a piece of advice my wife recently received on buying a swimming pool. I was reminded of that when I read something on LinkedIn last week about “the best county technology plan ever.” The plan is public, so I decided to investigate and read it for myself.I am immediately skeptical when I see a document called a Technology Plan. The public sector isn’t suffering from a lack of technology; its root problems are
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 reasons why innovation and technology pilots often don’t succeed

  01-08-2017 19:50
  Disruption from new technologies and new business models fundamentally changes companies’ competitive positioning. Most CEOs and boards of directors today recognize their business is at risk if they don’t change, as disruptive competitors will gain ascendency over them. Because they recognize the power of disruptive technologies and the need to change, many invest in pilots to determine whether a technology can create the desired performance outcome. Unfortunately, pilots rarely deli
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Project management is critical for marketing success in a digital era

  01-08-2017 19:48
  Experienced project managers are well paid due to the value they bring to any organization. These talented professionals create and maintain timelines and outcome expectations for everything from IT software development to building construction projects. The concepts they use can be applied to any area of business, but marketing teams can especially benefit from project management principles. They regularly plan and execute long-term marketing campaigns with timelines, milestones, and budget res
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 key areas where blockchain can transform IoT

  01-08-2017 19:45
  Blockchain technology is transforming the way IoT is viewed and is impacting on a vast range of industries. It is providing a way to secure networks by preventing compromised devices from wreaking havoc in business processes.It delivers a unanimous and immutable way to transact and dutifully records all information in a private manner requiring specific permissions, making it a very useful tool to regulate IoT devices. As it is a shared, unchangeable ledger of transactions, it offers a sense of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Technology addiction is a new language – do you know what it says?

  01-08-2017 19:43
  I recently sat down to chat with Abinash Tripathy, CEO and founder of Helpshift, with the ostensible purpose of discussing customer service and machine learning. But our chat took an interesting turn when he mentioned his daughter’s technological fluency. Tripathy traced the ways in which she and her friends interact with their devices to the emotional response that he remembers accompanying the early days of messaging. His conclusion: technology addiction has formed an entire language, on
  
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• BrandPost: How Software Defined Storage is Fueling Hyperconvergence

  01-08-2017 18:19
  Effective container storage has long been a messy proposition. Considering the rapid build-up and teardown process as developers in particular utilize containers, storage has often been the after thought.
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• IDG Contributor Network: Success secrets for conversational commerce

  01-08-2017 15:45
  When Facebook Messenger announced the opening of its chatbot platform a little over a year ago, one of the first companies to leap into serving customers via automated chat was 1-800-Flowers.com.  Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, demoed their beta platform as part of his announcement, joking “To order from 1-800-Flowers, you never have to call 1-800-Flowers again.”Since then, Facebook has continued to expand the platform’s capabilities, adding payment methods and enhanced UI
  
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• New CIOs at the IT helm

  01-08-2017 12:55
  Several companies were in the news recently with new CIO appointments or for adding CIOs to their corporate boards. Increasingly, we’re seeing more female executives appointed to these roles. In this edition of Mover & Shakers, women make up more than one-third of the new CIO appointments! Congratulations to all!Jeff Lemmer was promoted from Director of IT Operations to Vice President and CIO with Ford Motor.Zhanna Golodryga is now Senior Vice President, Chief Digital and Administrativ
  
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• Why IT projects still fail

  01-08-2017 12:00
  In the age of agile development, devops and related management techniques, is IT project failure even a thing anymore? The answer, sadly, is yes.In the past, IT failures often meant high-priced flops, with large-scale software implementations going on way too long and way over budget. Those failures can and still do happen. Case in point: IBM’s never-completed $110 million upgrade to the State of Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation system.But IT failure today is frequently diffe
  
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• An inside look at today’s top tech employers

  01-08-2017 12:00
  In a tight IT talent market, companies that treat their employees well maintain a competitive edge. By keeping their tech talent engaged, motivated and, yes, well-compensated, companies that focus on employee well-being attract and retain top talent at greater rates.But you don’t have to be a Google or Facebook to attract and retain the best. A recent research survey from PayScale, “Tech Companies Compared: Salaries, Tenure and Corporate Culture,” reveals surprising insights in
  
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