February, 2007

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The Search for Jim Gray Continues

All Things Distributed

As Mike Olsen just wrote on the Tenacious Search weblog, today was the first day that action could be taken on the boats found in the satellite and ER-2 streams. Bad weather has kept any aerial search parties on the ground until now. This morning two planes were dispatched to locations derived from images coordinates combined with drift models.

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Breaking down silos and building networks in financial services - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Announcing: Web 2.0 in Australia | Main | The relationship economy and vendor relationship management » Breaking down silos and building networks in financial services Ross Dawson, February 15, 2007 11:20 PM US PT Yesterday I gave the keynote at a senior management offsite for a top-tier global financial services institution.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Integration: Good News and Bad News

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: will Web 2.0 social tools have a major transformational positive impact in the workplace?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[link] Leveraging Organizational Knowledge This blog focuses on how to leverage the knowledge held, created, shared in an organizational context; with the objective of fostering creativity and innovation for competitive advantage. Leveraging your organisational knowledge relates to Knowledge Management, organisational learning, human capital development, social media/networks strategy, multi-channels Customer Relationships Management (CRM) 22 February 2007 will Web 2.0 social tools have a major

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Half a Million Assignments Completed.

All Things Distributed

Over 530,000 Mechanical Turk assignments have been completed by more than 12,000 volunteers in the search for Jim Gray. We need a little more of a push and then all the images will have been processed. A team of experts lead by Alex Szalay of John Hopkins University has been working through the thousands of images marked for further investigation.

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Turkers Working Hard on the Search for Jim Gray

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It is now 3 PM on Sunday afternoon and the group of volunteers in thethe search for Jim Gray has worked their way through almost 100,000 assignments since Friday 5 PM. Since then we have seen over 6000 individual workers completing anywhere from 1 to almost a 1000 assignments. And there are still more to go.

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The relationship economy and vendor relationship management - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Breaking down silos and building networks in financial services | Main | Dissatisfaction with mainstream media drives the rise of citizen journalism » The relationship economy and vendor relationship management Ross Dawson, February 16, 2007 3:12 AM US PT This is great!

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The trend for trend maps - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Corporate blogging becomes Enterprise 2.0 | Main | BRW Digital Media Leaders Forum: The Case for Digital » The trend for trend maps Ross Dawson, February 23, 2007 4:46 PM US PT There seems to be a trend for trend maps!

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Everyone’s data streams for everything visible everywhere | Main | Corporate blogging becomes Enterprise 2.0 » A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first?

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On the Reliability of Hard Disks

All Things Distributed

Today in the opening session of FAST there are two papers on the studies of hard disk reliability. Both these papers present very interesting results that blow away some of the common assumptions in failure modelling of systems. Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson from CMU in their paper Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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The Conference Season is Opening Up Again

All Things Distributed

I have had the luxury of almost 4 months with any real conferences. Don’t get me wrong it is not that I do not enjoy the public speaking side of my job; it is just that I experience it always as rather disruptive. It is great to focus for a while and get things done.

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Search is the interface, but who controls the relationship? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Ad:tech Sydney: Keynote session – The New Media Mix | Main | Ad:tech Sydney: The five dimensions of Blogs as a Marketing Tool » Search is the interface, but who controls the relationship? Ross Dawson, February 4, 2007 2:06 PM US PT An article in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph says that a consortium of major mobile phone companies - Vodafone, France Tele

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Ad:tech Sydney: Keynote session – The New Media Mix - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Newspapers, search optimization, and transforming old-school editors | Main | Search is the interface, but who controls the relationship? » Ad:tech Sydney: Keynote session – The New Media Mix Ross Dawson, February 2, 2007 10:00 PM US PT Ad:tech has been the main event in town in advertising and technology for 10 years now, running conferences first

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Help Find Jim Gray

All Things Distributed

Computer science icon Jim Gray mysteriously disappeared after a solo trip with his sail boat outside San Francisco Bay. The coast guard has been searching for 4 days but has not been able to locate anything, not even debris. On Thursday 3 private planes searched through the coastal areas and they also returned unsuccessful.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: DST 2K7 Webcasts

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: “Break the Mould”

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[link] Leveraging Organizational Knowledge This blog focuses on how to leverage the knowledge held, created, shared in an organizational context; with the objective of fostering creativity and innovation for competitive advantage. Leveraging your organisational knowledge relates to Knowledge Management, organisational learning, human capital development, social media/networks strategy, multi-channels Customer Relationships Management (CRM) 16 February 2007 “Break the Mould” Check out this useful

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: DST2K7 = mini-Y2K? Doubt it.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Geek Reading, February 2007

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: "Dogfooding" Business Data Catalog

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2007 InnovAction Award

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Looking to add more hardware to your trophy room? The InnovAction Awards is a worldwide search for lawyers, law firms, and other deliverers of legal services who are currently engaged in some extraordinary innovative efforts. The goal is to demonstrate to the legal community what can be created when passionate professionals, with big ideas and strong convictions, are determined to make a difference.