Post Idea Giveaway 2012
Sometimes you find that you’ve got too many ideas. Ever have that problem? I do this week, and I swear I’m going to do something about it. I’ve got blog post ideas going back several years covering things from social media to technology to life topics and so on. It’s time I liberate these post ideas. I’m giving them to you to take and run with, just in case you’ve run out of ideas and need some inspiration. What better way to end the week, right? Alrightly, here we go: Social Networking & The Impact On Your Personal Brand Moleskine...
Read MoreHappiness CDXIII
Highly portable computing devices since I’m not only a geek, but a nerd as well.
Read MoreBehind The Firewall – BYOD
Some call it the latest ‘fad’, others point to a long history of people bringing their own technology solutions to the workplace, it’s currently referred to as BYOD. It’s all the rage right? After all, the ability to set your own course, control your own computing destiny, and pick the phone of your choice is our right as modern humans. Besides, IT departments are too overbearing and controlling – they don’t understand our need to get our work done in a timely fashion. At least, that’s what it may seem like to those hip ‘movers &...
Read MoreMy Latest Mobile Office Setup
No, that’s not a netbook. On the left: voice and video recorders, the Asus Transformer Prime tablet running Android 4.0, on the right, a pen/sylus/laser-pointer, and of course not pictured is my phone, an HTC Sensation 4G with a custom Android ICS ROM that I also use as my mobile hotspot. Total of less than 4lbs. What makes up your mobile...
Read MoreAn End to the IT ‘End User’
This has bothered me for quite a while, and I thought it about time to mention it. Hang on though, this may be a bit of a rant, but it bears bringing up. Why do corporate IT departments continue to call their customers “end users”? Of course, it’s part of the language of IT, part of the culture as well. You know the jokes, “if only we could get rid of the users, our support costs would go down”. Good for a laugh on a stressful day, but what’s really being said there? Are we that far off the path of providing quality, usable,...
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About Me
Rick Mahn is the Founder of SMBMSP, Principal of Rick Mahn & Associates, and a Sr. Information Technologies Architect with Experis. With over two decades in Information Technologies Architecture and Social Media, Rick connects people & organizations by embracing new technologies and open standards.Learn more about Rick.
