Angela Slezak has 10 years of marketing experience, specifically in database marketing and mail planning. Angela also hold as Masters in Library Science and speaks Mandarin Chinese. She speaks Spanish un poco, and eavesdrops on conversations for fun and learning. Angela's role in database marketing puts her in close contact with IT Professionals. She is eager to support the IT Community through communicating about past and future events.
Christopher Avery, author of “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” and a keynote speaker at The Path to Agility conference on May 24th, is fascinated by the complexities of Agile leadership and its adoption across other industries."Agile was named/invented in the software industry so
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Ken Schwaber is back in Columbus on May 24th as a featured speaker at The Path to Agility conference, presented by the Central Ohio Agile Association (COHAA). As a signatory of the Agile Manifesto and co-developer of the Scrum framework, it may be surprising that his perspective on software
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The end of the year brings television and magazine summaries of births, deaths, natural disasters and celebrity happenings. What doesn’t make the news is the quiet innovation occurring in the background, each and every day, in our local communities. In a bustling tech community like Columbus
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It seems like only yesterday - IT Martini 20: Tech After Tomorrow followed the TechTomorrow conference at Ohio Union, with a special focus on The Adaptive Enterprise. Hundreds from the Columbus IT Community raised thousands for the Groundwork Group, exchanged
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Andi Sie, president of tech startup incubator eSolutech, faced a problem in 2008 unique to tech startups – he was ahead of his time.
In 2008 eSolutech created openstub.com an ID platform which used QR codes for event registration. Unfortunately, QR codes were not yet understood in
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Volunteerism is part of the American spirit. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010 about 62.8 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once during the year.
The past three presidents have all encouraged volunteerism from Bush’s “National
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We are in an Entrepreneur Revolution. Clate Mask, author of Conquer the Chaos, wrote in a VentureBeat article several reasons for the revolution including corporate disillusionment, an expanding workforce and a recession. He also noted technology's role, specificially the
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New Albany was founded in 1837, the year the telegraph was patented and the year our northern neighbor Michigan was just becoming a state. In the past two decades, New Albany has risen to become a Central Ohio economic powerhouse. With 5.6 million square feet of development, $1 billion in
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The Northeast Ohio market is strong for technologists largely due to the growing support for technology start-ups. Tech company incubators in the Cleveland area have helped propel the region into new areas of opportunity: a recent JumpStart blog by Lynn-Ann Gries cited 10 small loan/grant entities
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You’ve probably heard that IT Certification - taking a course or an exam to be certified in a particular concept or principle - boosts your salary or increases the likelihood of being chosen for a job. Is this true?
It depends.
Information Technology professionals are advised to carefully
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