Confessions of a Network Administrator – Stop Creating Bad Policies – Outsource Yourself

Several years ago I successfully convinced a company with hundreds of productive employees to have everyone change their network password every 90 days, and to enforce the use of complex passwords. The network accounts controlled access to email, file and print, and indeed their very computer. Naturally, some users were enraged. I thought that I [...]

Personal Brand – A Brand Called You – Online Influencer

This blog posting came out of some questions that Pomai asked me about “branding yourself”. Brand Yourself The term “brand yourself” doesn’t actually make sense except in a colloquial way. We are “always” “branding ourselves” if by that we mean communicating with others in ways that create or manage a particular “brand”–a category in the [...]