Zach Golden, copywriter, has some really fantastic ads for TiVo: Very clever. And if you’re a TiVo user, you know they’re bang-on accurate. (Via SvN) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management), Workday and Business Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d like to
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Read More...The compulsions of an infovore dictate that we must process, form judgments on and share inbound information quickly. This is a demand of the attention economy as well as the realtime nature of the tools web workers use. And it’s sad, because adult issues aren’t always cute sound bites and often need extensive research to understand and editorialize.
Read More...Let’s be honest: we all get way too much email. In professional communication, it’s all too common to send an email only to find that days later, the recipient didn’t take the time to read it or – worse – deleted it. Before you blame them, ask yourself: did I make it easy for them
Read More...It’s Friday, and at some point – after you’ve finished tweaking that BI dashboard you’ve been working on -- you have to do some recreational reading to brush up on snazzy topics for that BBQ on Saturday night. Allow me to help.
Read More...With web technologies finally at a point where they rival those previously reserved for the thick-client computing, cloud applications are massively viable – and, to boot, offer tremendous advantages to their users (as well as their hosts). It’s not just about sharing, it’s about the universal cloud being able to offer processing, analytics, logic and a common-man-accessible UX.
Read More...“We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent
Read More...Did you have time this week to find the very best things on the Internet? No? Well neither did I, so I proffer to you this fine quasi-rushed collection of various links below in the hopes that one of them makes your weekend. Is that a stretch? Yeah, probably. Nonetheless, here goes: Sitting is really
Read More...This week I perused the Internet in search of personal enlightenment. Instead I got a lot of cat pictures and a bunch of stuff about this guy named LeBron James. Plus these links, which I’m sure you’ll find as fulfilling as I did. 2010: The year Apple enters a new golden age. Novelist Nic Brown
Read More...In your eyes, how powerful is IT these days, especially as it relates to the bygone days of IT glory? I’m genuinely interested in your perspective.
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