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        <title><![CDATA[Applying Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs in Your Projects]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-342385-3513587]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Learn to apply Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs in your own projects and see results:http://innovativeprojectguide.com/soft-skills-in-project-managent/8-soft-skills-in-project-management/121-maslows-theory-of-human-needs.html]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:39:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[amazing post my friend and I like it so much]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-342385-3501313]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[myegy  kooora  panet]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ana-ara]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:46:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Help Desk tech]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-342385-3481025]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I am a good tech, and I love my work. I like fixing problems and teaching. I also like being called magical, a goddess, a superhero and an angel. I get to play for a living, and I always have the newest and best toys. I don't want to manage, It is too much like work.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[girlgeek]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:24:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Technical Support Engineer's are vary greatly]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-342385-3480878]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Technical Support Engineers are not all the same. There is an inclination in the industry to look down on Technical Support Engineers.This article didn???t exactly identify the Technical Support Engineer role, but it was unfortunately encompassed in the bottom two positions with the lowest prestige, Technical and Help Desk Analyst.Should a Technical Support Engineer have the lowest prestige of all technical jobs in the industry? If you think so, you might want to reconsider after read this.http://www.rhyous.com/2011/08/05/why-technical-support-engineers-are-not-all-the-same/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rhyous]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:17:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Email Admin]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-342385-3467855]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Big companies normally must have an email administrator. A lotus or exchange infrastructure can be complex enough to keep one or several email administrators.I have colleagues working in companies with offices around the globe and they have several email administrators. They have a complex email infrastructure with several email servers, certificate servers (they use encryption for certain email communication), BES server, Message One for Disaster recovery and a great email backup routine. This guys are very bussy and have the exchange systems at top performance.They even have a BES admin (blackberry enterprise administration) IT person. They have several BES servers around the globe as well and use a critical replication allow them to use Blackberry server from one office to provide service to other country if required.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[alexisgarcia72@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:59:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Being the person they do call]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is my goal everywhere I work.Sometimes what they call me isn't nice, but having a reputation as a guy who can and will get things done, is my saving grace, makes up for being that irritating git.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Hopkinson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:17:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Small company, one does it all!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So where does the person fit in that has to do most all of the IT stuff?  My official title is &quot;Office Manager&quot;, but I create new users, add printers, troubleshoot PC's from Win98SE to Win7, manage the VOIP phones, oversee most anything having to do with connectivity.  I also am quite proficient with Office to aid users with formatting in Word, formulas in Excel, etc.  I do have an outside support team that I can call.  But where does this fit into the above hierarchy?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cricket4b]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:33:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My Vision]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[;-D As soon as you said cleric I had the image of either a Bishop or a pagan High Priest in all of his vestments  transmitting the prayers of his congregation to the Deity, in this case represented by the Database Server.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[joeller]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:36:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re: cleric]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Under  Word History it mentions that the clergy in the Middle Ages were the only class who could read and write and were often employed as scribes, secretaries and notaries.  It is this vision of a scribe faithfully and tediously copying one book after another that I am referring to.http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_monks_copy_booksSome images:http://www.google.com/search?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;complete=0&amp;biw=1023&amp;bih=628&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;q=monk+cleric+scribe&amp;btnG=SearchAnd this is a classic:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IgH2M02xekEdit: Change Usages to History, capitalized Middle Ages and added the second link]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Norton]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:54:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[cleric?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Personally I had never heard cleric used in that sense hence my assumption of a misspelling.  However, I am confused by the link you provide as it defines cleric as cler??ic (klrk)n.A member of the clergy.Was that the correct link you intended to provide or am I seeing a different definition due to location. (e.g. US vs UK)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[joeller]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:25:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Technical writer!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Technical writing is a greatly undervalued function. We're often the last hired and first let go. Many department heads understand the cost benefits of professionally written and maintained documentation that keeps everyone on the same page. However, when a budget crunch comes, managers start to think, &quot;Maybe I can get one of the programmers to write the manual.&quot;It compounds the problem that, often, people who tire of their own fields (or can't get work) start calling themselves technical writers without going back to school to learn all the minutia of modern technical communications. I believe many companies can derive increased quality and financial benefit from attaching greater value to documentation and by learning what to look for in a technical writer.By the way, I think you meant to say the reporting specialist is a &quot;glorified clerk,&quot; not &quot;glorified cleric.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mandolinface]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:00:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I wish I had a tech writer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In all the years I've been programming, I've never been in an organization that had people specifically tasked as tech writers.  With all the proliferation of documentation in working on Government contracts, I would give my left arm for a tech writer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[joeller]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:10:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[TEsting not included]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[these days testing is a very important part. Quality Analyst shoudl also be included.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gaurav.jaz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:55:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Security Admin]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-342385-3460965]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Hey I don t see a Security Network Specialist?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jorglct]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:58:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[CTO and CIO but programmers value more]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[CTO and CIO beside and Product Managers but I mostly value programmers I'm programmer too !]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marko_Shiva_Pavlovic]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:48:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Prestige, a ghost from the past.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In my humble opinion, There is no more prestige in IT. Most of us lost our Deity status long ago when IT classes were offered as elective courses in High School.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[thomabry]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:58:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Data Recovery Engineers and Computer Forensic Analysts]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Think you forgot these elite bad boys (and girls)... They should rank almost at the top especially considering DREs are the continuation of the business in some dire instances!I can't think of any other positions within IT where multiple expertise and heavy cross skilling is critical/essential, other than maybe strategic level management.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[acheron05]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:35:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bonus Notes]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The best prestige Job is:Job Satisfaction and going home with a smile on your face.  :-DNo matter how hard the day was and how many challenges, money,status doesn't really play a role at the end of the day! I rather have no prestige and little money than thinking my job is more prestige than my neighbours. At the end in IT &amp; Automation: we can't live with out each other no matter how big or small your jobs is! We are the gears that fit snuggly together on different shafts and we give the world prestige Infrastructure and Communications (Devices&amp;Hardware &amp; Software&amp;Programming&amp; Projects)So People ( U all have Prestige &amp; Important Jobs, everyone of U!) Thanks to our Provider. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[colin.gilen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:10:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[thanks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[wow .. i think salary most important then rank ;p]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[janpirate@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:37:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thank you]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You just made my day!  I am glad to read that you 'get it' and appreciate the lighter side of the article.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Norton]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:28:10 -0700</pubDate>
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