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Advice from NASA on social media
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2010 Data Center trends report
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CIO Executive Edge: A silly IT budget trick
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I read an article the other day by Arthur Langer about how IT can survive the current economic recession. I was struck by the following piece of advice:“Move more IT expenses into business units. This keeps all the dollars from being in one large IT budget. It also allows business units to defend their requests for extra spending.”

Facebook users targeted in massive spam run
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FCC's broadband plan lauded as critical to health IT
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Healthcare IT champions are applauding the broadband plan the government released last Tuesday as a boon for health information technology. "We hope the National Broadband Plan serves as a driver for both innovation and connectivity, which are two key elements to lowering costs and improving patient care," said Joel White, executive director of the Health IT Now! Coalition.

Twitter becoming essential tool for docs
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For Chinese people, loss of Google would mean 'nothing but darkness'
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CIO Executive Edge: March Madness means that half the year has passed.
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The NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament is called March madness as 64 teams play in a tournament to crown a national champion. Outside of the U.S. this may not mean as much, but the tournament is a big annual event and the subject of much debate and discussion. It should be, because for all practical purposes the end of March means marks not only the end of the first calendar quarter of 2010–it also marks the halfway point for completing IT projects.

CIO drives IT business value with new perspective on processes
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Tim Schaefer, CIO of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., has used the economic downturn to make radical changes in the way IT is perceived and operates at the Milwaukee-based insurer. In this second of a two-part story, Schaefer outlines: an asset portfolio management framework the company uses to get a return on its $3 billion investment in technology, four areas where the IT organization is building capabilities and processes in 2010 and three ways to drive IT business value

CIO Executive Edge: Perspective matters when considering IT investment budgets
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Pundits use IT portfolio measures to justify observations regarding the health and future of IT. The average quoted in some quarters is 71% to operations with the remaining 29% allocated to investment. Pundits claim that a ration of slightly more than 2:1 restricts IT form achieving its full role in the enterprise. IT needs more money applied to change in order to be taken seriously in the enterprise.