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BLOODTHIRST VS. BLOODLUST
How To Design Your Cover: Making the If The Dress Fits Cover
New book coming out this October, and I’m so EXCITED. I love creating the covers of my books, and I have to admit, I had a lot of fun doing it for If the Dress Fits. And I’m really happy the book’s cover has gotten a lot of love too! Want to find out how I made the cover? Keep reading! (more…)
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Social Media and the IT Leader, one year on...
A year ago, I wrote a blog entry about my experience at the IT Directors Forum, and my surprise at the relative conservatism of people that lead IT in their organisations. Given the incredible increase in the use of social media tools in the general population, I had expected the IT community to be somewhere near the front of the wave when it came to exploiting this phenomenon in business. It didn't turn out like that, so I was interested to go to the same event this year and find out if attitudes had changed.
The topic that had appeared this year, that no-one discussed last year, was BYOD. This is an unavoidably social issue, and although the term was muttered with apprehension, it was at least muttered.
Other than this, on the whole, opinions seemed to have moved a little - the demographic was maybe a little bit younger, and there was more acceptance that younger people entering the workplace, or achieving their first management position, would naturally expect to be able to use such things. There is still a hard core of conservatism, a fear that this is a dangerous place for an IT Director to be - I suspect that these people also work in '20th Century' organisations where the IT function is a silo that is a cost, rather than a ticket to play in the world of the data-rich.
Still, we move too slowly in most cases. Employees are connected, whether 'governance' likes it or not. As Jane Bozarth reputedly said recently
"Your employees already have a "social media policy". If you're lucky, they included you."
I look forward to seeing how the world changes in the next 12 months...
