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Project Management

Prepare for a management career through project management

To move your IT career toward management, you may want to first consider project management. Here are a few steps to get you started.

CXO

Help your team learn to train users with this seminar presentation

Take the pain out of educating end users by teaching your team how to approach these training sessions. This presentation will help you bridge the communication gap between IT and your organization's users.

Printers

How your organization can use bar code technology

Bar code technology can perform many tasks in your organization, but many shops don't use it. Here are a few reasons they might want to reconsider.

Tech & Work

Find out more about Microsoft’s new Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance plans

Time is running out to sign up for Microsoft's new Licensing 6.0 plan. Find out more about Microsoft's changes to its licensing structure and what the industry is saying about it.

CXO

End-user training should be customized to fit the audience

No one ever said training end users to use new software or follow a new security policy would be easy. But you can make training sessions more successful by following these simple techniques.

Networking

Use these three tips when educating end users

Training end users to follow a new security policy or use a new software program doesn't have to be a nightmare. Following the advice in this article can help any manager successfully educate his or her organization's end users.

Tech & Work

How to keep users from installing their own software on your organization’s PCs

Users will be users. If you give them a fast machine that's loaded with RAM, they'll be tempted to add their own software. Here's some advice from members about how to keep users in check.

Software

Decision Support: FirstClass provides an e-mail and messaging system alternative

Though facing stiff competition from Outlook and Notes, FirstClass can be used as an alternative to these venerable messaging system platforms, as one airline discovers.

Developer

XML product helps your organization exchange data easily across multiple systems

The X in XML allows organizations with disparate systems to easily pass information between each other. This article explores some of XML's top benefits and one product that can help you leverage XML in your organization.

Project Management

When should an experienced manager seek a PMP certification?

Should a manager in midcareer seek a PMP certification? Which IT areas are best suited to the PMP? Learn why the PMP is right for certain IT managers--and what motivated one seasoned PM to get the certification.

PURPOSE The purpose of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to provide guidelines for developing mobile applications from a security, procedural and best practices standpoint. While it contains technical guidelines, it is not intended to serve as a programming guide but as a framework for operations. This policy can be customized as needed to fit ...

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