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Social media is for every company, big or small, unless you're small and want to remain small, because business will go on as usual, right? Wrong.
While you should not forget the traditional ways of getting the word out about your business, you now n...
DATE: Mar 23, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
It is more than a bit disconcerting to go to my favourite sites and see the names of people whom I connect with on Facebook appear in little tucked away boxes on the page.
This is really the end of privacy as I know it, seeing the trails of my Faceb...
DATE: Mar 16, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
A friend sent me off to NPR.org to listen to REM's latest album ‘Collapse into Now', which the public broadcaster streamed entirely.
NPR regularly does this with new albums; just go to its music section and you'll find the latest and the recent from ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Many marketing departments are trying to figure out how to use social media services to their advantage while avoiding the obvious dangers to their brand.
The first is easier to control, while the danger is unpredictable given the nature of social me...
DATE: Mar 02, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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Ahmed Elamin
I challenge everyone in Bermuda to create social mashups to help Government provide better public services to people.
A ‘mashup' is the melding of data with internet services to produce useful information, or an application that is more than the sum...
DATE: Feb 23, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Last week I looked at the explosion in online learning and the benefits it can provide to those dogs who can still learn new tricks. As Trevor, a reader, pointed out: “I don’t think any article on this topic would be complete without mentioning the f...
DATE: Feb 16, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
E-learning thrives and abounds on the internet. You can pay for courses such as webinars. Or, if you don't want to pay, you can search out free training courses on the internet, and as long as you are a discerning person, get what you want.
I purcha...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
As it's Safer Internet Day on February 8, I point you to testing done on an EU study on parental control programs for children.
These are not programs to control parents of course, though some children might wish they could. These instead filter out ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
New types of jobs appear as new technologies and services come to the fore and eventually disappear as the tasks get subsumed into daily operations. One of these new types of jobs I did not discuss in last week's column on IT jobs is being called the...
DATE: Jan 26, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
So you’re in the safe bosom of corporate IT and you think your job is to install and repair hardware and software, fight viruses, maintain and protect networks, be efficient and control costs?
Well, that’s the boring part of the job to many IT people...
DATE: Jan 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin