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Comment on Should employers be able to ask for employee’s Facebook passwords? by zeezero

zeezero — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:41:49 +0000

This is a huge invasion of privacy. Your employer may as well ask you to bring in all of your old vacation photo albums to make sure there was nothing going on before they hire you…..

Comment on VOIP update for the week of 4/30 by Northeast Computer Services

Northeast Computer Services — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:23:58 +0000

Intriguing how VoIP has really changed the way people communicate via phone systems. Thanks for listing its advantages over traditional systems. Great read.

Comment on Should employers be able to ask for employee’s Facebook passwords? by Tek-Tips

Tek-Tips — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:44:09 +0000

This was all figured out, the Privacy question that is, back in the nineties. The pioneers identified Permission Marketing, and libraries of books were written on it and intuition, it turns out, was the only thing necessary to figure out how to “build community.” Then the advertising industry realized they were losing leverage, and they all went out and bought most of the state legislatures and the entire Congress, and several administrations, along with the FAA, FCC, SEC etc.

Comment on Should employers be able to ask for employee’s Facebook passwords? by Josh

Josh — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:37:30 +0000

Logging in with a username and password provides a means of authentication, to verify the person accessing the website is indeed the user he/she claims to be.

Many websites probably forbid sharing your username and password in their terms of use for this reason. It defeats the purpose of authentication. I have a big problem with giving out passwords for this reason. For that matter, I balk when an IT person in my company asks me for my password.

I guess if a company really wanted access to a user’s FB account, why not ask the employee to set their privacy such that the HR user at the company can view everything / most things? Perhaps FB could have a way to show the HR user that they have permission to view all of the employee’s content.

Comment on Firewall Update for the week of 4/2 by Eric

Eric — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:14:33 +0000

I personally use Comodo firewal and it acts good for my pc.

Comment on HiQ PDF Software for .NET – HTML to PDF Converter by stevnetk

stevnetk — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:34:42 +0000

By using HTML and CSS it is now possible to fast and accurately define pages layouts that look great.
For example an invoice template could have a main template with header, delivery address, billing address, transparent images for stamps or signatures, footer with page numbers etc. More than that, database columns could be presented on page by using tags, giving to the report developer great flexibility and speed.

If all this are already implemented, the next step should be to add PDF output as an option.
Rather than duplicate the effort and re-implement all in a PDF reporting tool, you could simply think about to an html to pdf conversion on the reports already created as above.
To see a demo about how powerful is this approach, you can try HiQPDF Library for .NET – HTML to PDF converter http://www.hiqpdf.com

Comment on Are social media and networking a waste of time? by greg schulz

greg schulz — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:08:32 +0000

Interesting perspective and proactive approach for a company to take.

Granted defining the scope of social media is one aspect, however social media and networking are what you enable them to be. They can be scary or successfull, feared or fruitull, enabled or evil, etc… Some companies will take a reactive approach, others will figure out how to leverage which also means putting in policies, providing education and best practices combined with some common sense.

Cheers
gs

Comment on Are social media and networking a waste of time? by Bob

Bob — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:24:16 +0000

Interesting post – thanks for sharing. I guess the question is always about the analytics and metrics. If you can find direct correlations between the time spent using social media to sales then one is on to something. Then you can create an actual equation. Otherwise you are equating two items that may have no relationship with one another. You may have worn blue shows everyday last year and had a banner year but you wouldn’t say that the blue shoes are the cause of the year.

Comment on Are social media and networking a waste of time? by hawk

hawk — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:36:27 +0000

Your post inspired a round table of sorts in my company, when I asked, should I consider social networking activity in an employee’s performance? I believe, also, that it can be quite educational, especially, if you’re keen on spotting trends, building relationships and understanding networking. Some folks still believe networking is about finding people who can help them, or that they can exploit. That neither worked in the old days, nor now. Networking is about finding mutual interests and sharing ideas that benefit those you wish to know. Whether on twitter, or at a local networking breakfast, if you use that approach, how can you go wrong?

Comment on The Potential of Memcached Hosting – Part 2 by Bejan Corneliu

Bejan Corneliu — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:37:46 +0000

Very good article.
I was not hear about the “…One of the features of Memcached servers is the automatic expiration of unused cache objects…”.