Terreece Clarke is the newest member of the IT Martini team. She has been a freelance journalist/writer since 1999 for a variety of magazines, Web sites and newspapers. Terreece is a nationally published freelance writer, whose work has appeared in Columbus Parent, ThisWeek Newspapers, Freelance Writing Gigs.com - the #1 Freelance Writing Website, Common Sense Media.com and more. She is also the new Columbus Ohio guide for About.com.
The new CIO and Vice President of Motorists Insurance Group is not the new kid on the block. In fact, John Kessler started at Motorists 27 years ago as an entry-level programmer and worked his way up through the ranks. Kessler's tenure, while an exception the IT industry, is the norm at
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Marc Canter is probably best known for creating MacroMind - the company that eventually became Macromedia, the creators of Flash. MacroMind, created in 1984, got its start by developing software for the brand new Apple Macintosh.
Arguably, Canter is the most exuberant father of
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When a company experiences rapid growth, people take notice. When a company lands on Inc. Magazine's Fastest Growing Companies list five years in a row, people sit up, take notice and take notes."Business has been good," Jeff Sopp, President and CEO of Expesite, said.That is an understatement. Sopp
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Codemash. It's the largest conferences for developers in the Midwest. So popular that it completely sold out 1200 seats in less than 20 minutes. Not 20 slowed-down Matrix minutes - real world minutes. It's popularity is in large part due to its unusual premise.
Codemash means the mashing together
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James McIntyre, CIO of Cincinnati Christian University, would be the first to tell anyone that IT departments in higher education have unique challenges. It is those challenges that continue to excite him about the work he does every day.
Four years ago, McIntyre left his position as a senior
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Michael Fergang, CIO of Grange Insurance doesn't talk tech.
"Fire every CIO that doesn't know how to talk business," Fergang said. "The company's business partners don't care about bits and bytes. They care about the business value IT delivers. It's unfortunate that we still have all of these
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Several years ago, Jeff Harper picked up an iPhone and thought, "Hmm, this is an interesting gadget, it's going to change the world." He worked in the financial sector and when he left the industry, the iPhone inspired what he calls, "the brainfart that changed my life."
Three
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Where are you right now? In an airport? Headed into holiday traffic? Wrapping up a few last things at work before knocking off for the long weekend? Wherever you are, if you plan on enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday, you cannot do it without downloading these cool apps.
Ratio (iPhone
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"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The
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The 2011 TechTomorrow Conference with its focus on The Adaptive Enterprise: Leading in the Face of Change promises to be an exciting opportunity for IT leaders from around the country to collaborate and learn the tools they need to lead. IT Martini interviewed Jeanne W. Ross - Director and
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