The annual Oracle Direct Charity event has experienced amazing growth since its inception 4 years. This year the event included 175 golfers, 100 bean baggers and north of 100 volunteers – what an incredible show of support! The golf event raised over $100k for a very worthy cause. Each year, the committee carefully considers charities
Read More...Not too long ago I attended a 1-day seminar titled “Essential Skills for the First Time Manager.” I thought it would be a day filled with useful information about how to effectively manage people, how to give not only positive feedback but also provide “constructive criticism” in a way that would foster growth, not resentment,
Read More...Oracle’s Commitment to Keeping PeopleSoft Current In a recent article titled Modernization and Mobility, QA Magazine interviewed Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Development for its PeopleSoft product line. It is a telling interview of Oracle’s commitment to delivering a PeopleSoft product that is both simple to use and mobile; things that today’s tech-savvy
Read More...It’s Friday, we’re heading into a season where food is the raison d’être, and if you’re anything like me, you have no idea what to do in the kitchen. I mean, I can make cereal, even oatmeal, and probably toast. I can also boil noodles and slop a bottle of sauce on them. Sometimes, I manage
Read More...Apple had a big week. If you want to understand what, exactly, they announced, I won’t recap it here. Other sites do a better job of that than I ever will. In fact, I recommend you hop over to Apple’s mainsite to see new goods firsthand. During the keynote, I posted to Facebook the thing
Read More...The Feed will be a new weekly feature here on MIPRO Unfiltered. What is it? News and micro-commentary from this week in the tech industry that you were probably too busy to catch. We’ve all been there – trying to stay in the know, but real life has a way of interrupting. We hope this lets you
Read More...This is ‘Stickers’, the new TV ad for Apple’s MacBook Air. It’s interesting on several levels. Watch: I watch and dissect all Apple ads, and this one jumped at me. Why? It breaks from their traditional style. Most Apple ads show what you can do with the product, not 30 seconds of the product itself
Read More...Part One I have become a bit obsessed about the daily work patterns of famous people. I liken this interest to my interest in biographies: it’s fascinating to see how someone who changed the world thinks and acts on a daily basis. Voyeuristic? Maybe. Informative? Like you wouldn’t believe. My new morning habit is to
Read More...OK Go is known for music videos that surpass even the most liberal definition of what a music video can be. Their latest video, for a song entitled The Writing’s On The Wall, is downright mind bending. The video is below, but you should know a few things: No CGI or effects are involved. It
Read More...Here’s author Malcolm Gladwell on the concept of criticism, and how entering a critical dialog with someone doesn’t have to equate to taking a shot at them or their work literally. Good stuff, and while it’s a solid theory most people understand, it’s much harder to put into practice. It requires a good deal of
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