Silicon: "End users' preferences will account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise, Martin Gutberlet, research vice president at Gartner, said last week."

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eWeek has an interesting article regarding women working in IT, or rather, women not working in IT.  The article is, Where Did All the Girl Geeks Go?

A professor says he has only one girl in a computer science major class in 2008, down from 40 percent in 2000. What happened? eWEEK gets field experts to weigh in.

While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work force, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Furthermore, fewer women worked in IT in 2008 than in 2000.

The article later discusses about the need to put more effort into convincing women that working with technology can be cool.  This argument and others the article makes for how to get more women involved in IT and computer science is a problem.  I don't know a single geek, whether male or female, that had to be convinced that technology is cool.

Baseline: Yet another nail in the coffin laying to rest the premise of Carr’s famous article in the Harvard Business Review asserting that IT is a commodity that doesn’t yield competitive advantage will be driven home Monday. That’s when a new research study from the Hackett Group will be released showing that companies that have mastered the use of information technology to provide maximum business value achieve significantly better financial results than their peers.

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"Church websites have come a long way in the past decade. They've gone from being an ugly after thought in the church to something with some importance and style. You can plainly see this on Church Relevances list of the top 75 church websites. As community trends have grown the church has embraced them...We are now in another technological and paradigm shift that is offering up an opportunity for us re-think our church websites. Over the next several posts here let's do just that. To start this off we need to take stock of where we are at with our church websites."

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The survey found that salaries for men increased by 2.4% in 2007 but stayed flat for women. The average salary last year for men was $76,582, and for women, it was $67,507, according to Dice. The gap widened last year: In 2006, the difference between salaries paid to men and women was 9.7%."

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The new AIR technology from San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc. is among several emerging products that promise to let companies run Web applications built using various AJAX tools on desktop systems. AIR is slated to ship next month, according to Adobe."

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"Whether it is an online lingerie retailer looking for SEO or a trucking company owner having problems getting a loan, social-networking sites provide tips, advice and contacts."

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"We’re now at the point where the most innovative technology for users really is being created in the nonbusiness space. Corporate IT has become the prisoner of legacy technology, and the result isn’t just stodginess — we’re missing out on innovation that could make our users more productive, more effective and more successful."

--Frank Hayes, "Prisoners of Legacy", ComputerWorld, January 7, 2008

Yesterday, I talked about CMS Report's five most read articles that were published in 2007. Today, let's talk about seven of our articles that remained at the bottom of the dog pile. Listed below are Seven Great CMS Report Articles that you few people read.

1. A review of ReviewBasics
2. Introducing Facebook to the Boss
3. United States students continue to fall behind in IT education
4. Saying Goodbye to Old Media
5. Thunderbird 2.0
6. Virtually impressed with Microsoft
7. Getting more work done through less innovation

Most of the articles listed above were read less than 1000 times. Yet, in my opinion, the articles are some of the better articles I wrote in 2007. Hey, some of the stories even have pictures (something I rarely do on my site). Perhaps you could make it one of your 2008 New Years resolutions to read the articles?

"The Product-of-the-Year designation is meant to recognize technologies that have had a major impact on how we work using information technology - and nothing has had a more profound effect than the disruptive nature of spam. Until now, that is.

This week Basex named Information Overload as the 2008 Problem-of-the-Year."

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