March, 2010

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Why Social Media Is The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread – And.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Why Social Media Is The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread – And Why It Isn’t by Starbucker on March 10, 2010 Think for a second about what sliced bread did for humanity. Seriously. Why else would all new products or innovations be compared to it since it was first sold in 1928 ?

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Trust

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Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Digital Revenue Expert – Vince Thompson

SoCal CTO

More Visible Networking? this time with Vince Thompson. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background. What’s the short version? Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Domain Services and Bounded Context using Akka - Part 2

Ruminations of a Programmer

In Part 1 of this series you saw how we can model a domain repository as an actor in Akka. It gives you declarative transaction semantics through Akka's STM and pluggable persistence engine support over a variety of data stores. As a result the domain model becomes cleaner. The repository that you design can take advantage of Akka's fault tolerance capabilities through supervisors that offer configurable lifecycle strategies.

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Is the Customer Always Right? | N2Growth Blog

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The Missing Link In Building The Perfect Team

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Missing Link In Building The Perfect Team by Starbucker on March 15, 2010 They are often thrown into their jobs head first. They typically know their stuff, but are lacking in certain skill sets that directly relate to their new responsibilities.

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Trust and credibility

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Social Media Matching

SoCal CTO

People seem to be missing the really big picture of the value of social media and really the Internet for that matter. They look at how current social networking sites work and how online and offline relationships currently work and make the assumption that this represents the value proposition. Case in point the recent HBR blog post: The Social Media Bubble , by Umair Haque where he advances the following hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connec

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Thinking Asynchronous - Domain Modeling using Akka Transactors - Part 1

Ruminations of a Programmer

Followers of this blog must have known by now that I am a big fan of a clean domain model. And domain driven design, espoused by Eric Evans is the way to go when you are modeling a complex domain and would like to have your model survive for quite some time in the future. Recently I have been experimenting a bit with domain driven design using some amount of asynchronous message passing techniques particularly in the services and the storage layer.

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Mar. 19)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Internet Explorer 9 "Platform Preview" Now Available From Microsoft Secure Application Development on Facebook OWASP Podcast #63 with Ed Bellis (CSO, Orbitz) PCI-SSC slaps ASVs wrists over marketing claims about 11.2 & 6.6 Researcher Will Expose 20 Hackable Apple Security Flaws alert(‘xss’) – The slow death of XSS Inline vs.

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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog

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Mantras R Us: The Pocket Guide to Effective Zen Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Mantras R Us: The Pocket Guide to Effective Zen Leadership by Starbucker on March 21, 2010 I’m a great believer in injecting a little Zen into our day-to-day leadership style, because I’ve found it to be very, very effective.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Credit comes later

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

This question came up last week. I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. My quick response was that this was likely some combination of: Weak development team Poor communication, especially around requirements and expectation setting Past

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Master Your Workday Now

Steve Farber

For me, that’s a big proposition and a bold statement, so I would never even pretend to be the one to tell you how to even think about starting to get a handle on what it takes to get an inkling of how to even conceptualize the possibility of getting even a loose handle on your workday–let alone MASTERing it. Fortunately, there is someone that can help and he’s been kind enough to put his wisdom in a new book called, appropriately, Master Your Workday Now.

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PCI-SSC slaps ASVs wrists over marketing claims about 11.2 & 6.6

Jeremiah Grossman

The PCI Security Standards Council's (PCI-SSC) recently published March Assessor Newsletter , which contains rather "interesting" language for certain Approved Scanning Vendors (ASV). It is unclear what the penalty will be for firms who continue their misleading practices. For those curious, WhiteHat Security was once an ASV, but has not been for over a year -- largely because we already understood the following requirements.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

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The Undeniable Value of Professional Skepticism

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Undeniable Value of Professional Skepticism by Starbucker on March 28, 2010 I have this natural tendency to want to trust everybody. I know that’s not good, so I have to fight that tendency, especially in the business world.

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Feet on the Street: RSA Highlights Cloud and Cybersecurity

Sailpoint

This week, several members of the SailPoint team made the annual trek to the industry’s biggest security event, the RSA Conference. As always, the conference was a high-paced mix of conference sessions, technology debates, and meetings with customers and partners. I’m always interested in what themes get the most play at RSA. This year, I’d have to say that “the cloud” wins the contest hands-down.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Exploring The Depths

Steve Farber

This story from John Hopkins of Orphanage Outreach came to us today via the Greater Than Yourself website. It gave me goosebumps. May it do the same for you. Here’s John: My story starts with a confession. Right after The Radical Leap hit the bookstores I read the cover and adopted the LEAP formula as a training model for students and staff participating in a leadership course I developed for middle-schoolers.

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Mar. 12)

Jeremiah Grossman

Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Bypassing CSRF protections with ClickJacking and HTTP Parameter Pollution Three Steps to a Rational Security Budget Hackvertor and JSReg Multiple DOM-Based XSS in Dojo Toolkit SDK Weak security ID questions put e-mail at risk XSS demo for stealing passwords from the Firefox password manager.because you can't get enough of clickjacking A gentle introduc

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Quick Thoughts on Differentiation

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quick Thoughts on Differentiation “How are you different?” – an important question that your prospective customer will first ask. Your prospective employer too. Your boss will. So will your team members. Here are some quick thoughts on differentiation, as I thought about it during my recent visit to Helsinki, Finland (some pictures above).

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The SOBCon Manifesto

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The SOBCon Manifesto by Starbucker on March 25, 2010 I am one of the founders of SOBCon , a venture that started in 2007. My partner is Liz Strauss, author of Successful Blog. I’ve written elsewhere on the history of this annual Chicago conference , and how Liz has been a marvelous catalyst for the magic that has occurred there for the last 3 years running, but today I̵

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. I agree completely: If it makes you feel better to give me that number in passing, okay, go ahead, but don’t put any emphasis on it.

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Conflict Resolution Mistakes: Stating Opinions As Facts | Guy.

The Recovering Engineer

Subscribe to Receive Updates Home About This Blog Archives Great Reading Contact Me my business about me Communication Skills Persuasion DISC Model Family Relationships Parenting Leadership Skills Post Series Reflections Decision Making From Our Cats Personal Change Resolving Conflict Problem Solving Video Browse > Home / Communication Skills , Resolving Conflict / Conflict Resolution Mistakes: Stating Opinions As Facts Conflict Resolution Mistakes: Stating Opinions As Facts March 2, 2010 by Guy

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