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FREE Oracle White Paper: How To Automate Audit Collection and Analysis

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You might be interested in looking at this FREE White Paper from Oracle on this subject. Their blurb says: Strengthening internal controls for regulations, enforcing industry best practices, and guarding against insider threats are just a few of the challenges facing organizations in today’s global economy. While problems such as the insider threat are certainly […]

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How I’d Like You To Take $10 $20 From Me and Beat Chris Mahan

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Dear Friend I am increasing the Commentator of the Month bonus for October to $20. Why? Well Chris Mahan has taken the prize for the last two months and quite frankly, I want someone else to win it. This is also in Chris’s interest, as by helping me this way you’ll be reducing the impact

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Subscribe to my Newsletters to Receive My New eBook

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My new eBook ‘The Essence of IT Leadership (Volume 1)’ will be launched next week, which gives readers insights into the essential ingredients of building and leading IT teams. It’s written of the back of many years of experience and lessons learned from myself and a number of colleagues and friends in the industry, worldwide.

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September Commentator of the Month!

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He has done it again! Congratulations to Chris Mahan (http://chrismahan.blogspot.com/ ) for winning ten bucks – he is September commentator of the month! (Retaining his August commentator of the month title too) Chris, this is now $20 I’ve awarded you in total. If you’re spending it on burgers, watch your cholesterol.

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How To Decide If A Book’s Worth Opening, in 90 Seconds

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#$%% INFORMATION OVERLOAD !!)>%% If you’re anything like me, you’ve got far too much to read and not enough time to read it. Papers, emails, forms, magazines, books, websites and blogs. Loads of stuff to read. It’s always helpful to have a way of sorting the wheat from the chaffe! Merlin Mann on his blog

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Will You Get One Of These Tiny Keyboards?

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Check out this tiny keyboard featured on Gizmodo . Smaller than the size of your hand, and it connects up to your PC via USB. How sweet. But what’s the point in it? It’s a little bit smaller than most laptop keyboards, but then laptops come with keyboards so no use there. I doubt many

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Credit Crunch: Two Great Tips On Preparing For The Elbow

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No amount of preparation is too much preparation if your short-term employment prospects look bleak – there’s a big buzz on the ‘doom ahead’ in the blogosphere and here is a link to a post on Mark McClure’s website markmccluretoday.com I thought I’d share. This post can be used as a sort of ‘blog carnival’ for

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At Last! You Can Get Rid of the Mobile Label Printer, and Pick Up the New Blackberry 8220 Flip

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Finally! RIM comes out with a version of their ubiquitous Blackberry device that doesn’t look like those mobile label printers that warehouse clerks and IT quartermasters use! So you don’t need to be embarrassed again for holding one up to your ear in front of your esteemed business colleagues. Up until now, using my Blackberry

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Learn India in 12 Easy Steps

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Organizations who want to successfully take advantage of the opportunities of doing business with India must first understand the complex kaleidoscope of this country and the way Indian people think, act, see, hear and believe. Doing business with India is more than just technology, contracts, quarterly earnings, leadership, customer satisfaction, business value and other jargon.

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Review: Inbox, Xobni spelled correctly

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Email is no more just another way of communication in this Web2.0 generation. Our dependence on robust email has increased significantly, and every time we open our Outlook, it can sometimes remind us how careless we have been in organizing our emails and contacts. When we deal with 100s of email every day, it often

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A Blast Of Nostalgia!

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I was surfing around YouTube and found this TV commercial for the Intellivision from Mattel Electronics – my first ever electronic gadget. I had one of these back in 1984 before I had my first home computer. I loved it at first, but became bored of it because I couldn’t program it and make my

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August Commentator of the Month!

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Congratulations to Chris Mahan (http://chrismahan.blogspot.com/ ) for winning ten bucks – he is August commentator of the month! Don’t spend the money on candy – it will rot your teeth!

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A Review of Amazon.com

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I’m reviewing Amazon.com in this post…… er yes it might seem strange to review a business that almost everyone knows and uses. Having said that, it’s a great reason to review it. By the way. This is NOT a Paid Review!

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A Review of meetingwave.com

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Meetingwave.com is a fast-growing networking site that aims to connect business people (predominantly) offline. It helps you arrange meetings in the flesh with people in the areas you’ll be visiting. I found this to be an interesting concept, so I thought I’d review the site for my readers. This is not a paid review! Meetingwave.com

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My Tenuous Link To…. Bill Gates

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I Have A Tenuous Link With Bill Gates Because… … I once bought a pizza (although I didn’t eat it) from a Seattle restaurant that Bill Gates frequently used in his teenage years!

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July Commentator of the Month!

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Congratulations to DigitalMind (Jason) from TechieNation.com for winning ten bucks – he is July commentator of the month! Don’t spend all the money at once now!

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Join my Newsletter for more SimonStapleton.com!

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I have just launched an opt-in email newsletter which will give you more from SimonStapleton.com. The newsletter isn’t just a re-hash of the same content, but it will be more great news, discussion and advice not available on the website. It’s stuff like this: More personal views on the IT industry from me, Simon Stapleton

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Putting Your Value in the Spotlight

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I found this great article on CIO.COM , which discusses ways to raising the awareness of the value you create. I strongly recommend you take a look at it. What I like is the tips are simple and straightforward, and anyone can implement them – you don’t have to be top brass. And they’re fun!

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A Funny Story I Was Just Reminded Of!

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Ring-tone… A few years ago when cellphones had taken off commercially I turned up at my friends place and the door was answered by his wife – my friend had gone out. She said I should wait, so I followed her into the kitchen where she started to pick up the body of a wired

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Be Enlightened Each Day!

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It’s so easy to be alerted to new articles on this website every day by Subscribing to my RSS Feed. It’s simple, and you can use your favorite RSS reader by adding the feed address below or simply view it using the Free RSS viewer with Feedburner – just click on the link! What’s more I’ll be giving

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