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Social Media and Collaboration: Despite the Hype, Most Businesses Aren't Ready

By Dick Weisinger

Collaboration technologies have consistently been shown to save companies money on travel, office space and IT spending.  Collaboration helps staff members locate information more quickly and be better informed about both their companies and their job tasks.  Collaboration is also…

Social Media: US Small Business Turns to Social Media and New Technologies to Boost Competitiveness

By Dick Weisinger

Small Businesses in the US are going through difficult times, but they are fighting back with investment in new technologies.  That’s the conclusion of a report entitled the Small Business Success Index (SBSI) issued by Network Solutions and the Center…

Health Care: VA to team with DoD for Open Source VistA EHR Software Development

By Dick Weisinger

The Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense are teaming up to build a common Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.  The new system is to be based on the VA’s Open Source software known as VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems…

Social Media: Engineers Not Yet Comfortable with Social Media

By Dick Weisinger

Social Media and collaboration tools like LinkedIn, FaceBook and Twitter.  Facebook has more than 500 million users with more than half of all Internet-using Americans having accounts.  While Social Media has originated in consumer space, organizations are increasingly adopting Social…

Cloud Computing: Could the Public Cloud be More Secure than a Private One?

By Dick Weisinger

It seems counterintuitive, but some, possibly with interests in the public cloud, are arguing that the use of private clouds could open up organizations to more risk than if they were to go the route of the public cloud.  How…