“Chuck and I have been working together for a couple years. Everything he has done has been of the utmost professional quality and our endeavors are growing because of it. Thanks” -Stephen Schneider, Owner, Mind Architecture
Well for those of you that are not aware, i have emersed myself in the world of American Football. This is what I have on my plate in terms of football:
Coach at the Ravenna High School as a lines coach as well as technologist/stationer - www.RavennaFootball.org
Trustee for Suburban Youth Football League - www.syfl.us
Coach part-time at The Edge Sports Performance Academy - www.EdgeSPA.com
In addition to all of this I have become to take a special interest in an organization called Coaching 4 Life and USA Football. Both organizations are heavily invested in helping coaches. While USA Football is geared specifically towards football, tactics, techniques, and philosophies Coaching 4 Life is geared more to character / athlete development beyond the x's and o's of the sport. Anyone wishing to become a coach - I highly recommend that you look into these two organizations. Coaching 4 Life - specifically if you are not interested in football - since they are geared towards all sports.
Technology Asset Management
By Charles Harris,
on 24-03-2008 10:35
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"Business owners and executives need to change the way the enterprise acquires, uses, and manages the entire technology portfolio—from a business perspective—not merely a tech perspective." - Alan Plastow. I could not agree more. Businesses as well as individuals within a company really need to catch up with the times and the law in terms of Technology Asset Management (TAM) otherwise they are wasting millions of dollars in improper usage, acquisitions and in liabilities. Alan Plastow has spent thousands of man hours in the trenches dealing with TAM. He has assisted a wide range of companies in various industries deal with chaos and quite frankly ignorance revolving around the subject of TAM. Alan is so committed to educating people about TAM that he has founded two companies and written a book specifically addressing TAM.
Small businesses and large alike have been looking for ways of distributing work loads, removing bottle necks in the flow of information so that they are expediting information to clients, vendors, consumers and other stake holders while reducing operating costs. One common solution that all these businesses turn to is Content Management Systems or commonly referred to as CMS.
Why is instructional design needed? It's relatively easy to transfer raw content from paper to technology delivery. But it's much more challenging to put material into a format that helps people learn. Charles M. Reigeluth wrote in his book Instructional-design Theories and Models: An Overview of Their Current Status that instructional design is an effective way to alleviate many pressing problems in education. He then continues to define instructional design: as the linking science - a body of knowledge that prescribes instructional actions to optimize desired instructional outcomes, such as achievement and affect.
The term business intelligence (BI) dates to 1958.It refers to technologies, applications, and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information and also sometimes to the information itself. The purpose of business intelligence is to support better business decision making. "Today, BI has a reputation for being a resource sink that delivers reports almost no one reads. It does not have to be that way. And you can no longer afford to let it be" stated Galen Gruman of the Zango Group in 2007. I happen to strongly agree with his assessment and opinions on this matter.
