Like most Ops managers, I’ve come across and dealt with my fair share of IT disasters. I’ve gone the route of hiring an in-house staff, only to realize that it exhausted my budget and half the time I was paying for employees to sit around and wait for a disaster to strike. I’ve also gone the route of hiring an outside company to run my IT support, again only to find that I was being overcharged at every turn and I had no REAL immediate support, more like we were put into a “Queue” and when our… Continue

The folks at Paste Magazine have this neat little application that lets you create your own Shepard Fairey inspired Obama-style icon. And since the originals are hugely expensive, this may be the closest I get.



Make your own here.



Hat tip to… Continue

Last month I got appointed/invested/annointed as A Fellow of the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects http://www.aogea.org/



I am not sure what the feminine of a fellow is. I always chose webdiva rather than a webmistress and NEVER webmaster so what do i do with the name "Fellow"?



Do I pretend it is not gendered? Like some gen Ys do with using GUYs as a peopled group… Continue

Other posts are on the old GGD blog here Continue

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