Information Security – a practitioner’s perspective

While John Halliday is busy holidaying (at least, I think he is busy holidaying – that’s what he told me) I tonight stepped into his shoes to help BDO Kendalls host the monthly meeting of the Australian Information Security Association. Tonight’s presentation was held in the BDO Kendalls training rooms, and it was very well …

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Information Management is more than managing information…

Today Dr Kate Andrews and I had the pleasure of delivering an information management strategy for a client. During the course of this engagement, a fair bit of research was required – the information management strategy was not a ‘normal’ information management strategy but needed to blend IT Governance, Information Management, and Knowledge Management analytical …

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How you spend your IT dollar

I have been mining the archives for relevant publications to post to the website. The firm in 2001/2002 published a monthly IT issues newsletter (pretty much before we’d heard of blogs). I am intending to publish some select articles that are still relevant to the blog. The first of these is ‘How you spend your …

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High-Definition Television – Oh how sweet it is

I was asked the definitive ‘question in the hallway’ by a partner this week about high-definition TV. I don’t want to become a gadget reviewer, but I thought it was interesting to update the current state of play. The partner in question has just purchased a 50″ plasma TV (drool). Essentially – if you have …

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The New World Order – Frontpage is out!

It’s old news now, I know, but it is interesting that the new world order of blogging, and the ease of which this can be done (using the sorts of tools I am using, but more on that later) have led to the demise of the once-popular Frontpage.  Essentially, Microsoft Frontpage is out (replaced by …

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