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7 hot marketing certifications and how they pay off

Certifications are a great way to reinforce your skills and expertise on your resume, but not all certifications are worth your time. See how these seven popular marketing certifications stack up, and how they'll impact your salary.

6 soft skills employers should be looking for in tech talent

LinkedIn's Jennifer Shappley shares how she sources for soft skills and what to look for in your own candidates.

Why SMBs need to get project management right from the start

Project management products aren't just for big business. With increasing competition and the always-changing digital landscape, it's important for small businesses to take the grunt work out of critical business processes.

Crisis communications must be ongoing, not project-based

Recently, Oakland hired a PR firm In the wake of the tragic Ghost Ship fire. People are upset with the spend, but thereu2019s a lot more wrong with this situation than the fact that the city hired the firm.

3 reasons to encourage employees to take risks

In a time when you need to stand out to succeed, why play it safe?

The revolution will not be televised – it’ll be computerized

Political campaigns are a stress test of organizing skills. Only candidates who do well in the initial caucuses and primaries proceed in the campaign. Itu2019s essential to organize, raise funds and expand quickly. Systems and infrastructure have to

Why AI should augment, not replace, humans

Columnist Rob Enderle writes that your workforce may not yet be ready for artificial intelligence. First comes trust, education and training.

Sync for Genes ignites genomics on FHIR

Share your genomic information seamlessly. Sync for Genes lays the foundation for clinico-genomic apps to communicate clinical genomic data between EHR systems. Your access to portable genomic sequencing just got easier.

If business is great, what’s keeping you up at night?

Five IT issues that never sleep

Microsoft OneDrive slowness irks Linux users; Netflix supports Linux on Firefox

In this weeku2019s open source wrap, Linux users faced performance issues with Microsoftu2019s online services, Netflix went official with Linux support, and Gnome introduced night mode to the Linux desktop.rn

Dell Precision 5520 is a beauty and a beast

This the best laptop for Linux power users.rn

Questions to ask before choosing an automation partner

Intelligent automation has the potential to transform outsourcing engagements, but customers should do their due diligence before choosing their partners.

FCC votes to let phone companies stop robocallers

The Federal Communications Commission approves new rules that will finally make it harder for robocallers to harass you.

Social determinants: powering the next big leap for healthcare analytics

The next step toward reaching the holy grail of personalized care is harnessing social determinant data. Putting it into practice has its unique set of challenges.rn

3 innovative ways to boost blog engagement

Here are some steps to take if your blog is struggling to make a mark despite having a number of good posts.

Transform your IT from cash-eater to profit-maker with managed IT as a service

How to transform IT in a record time with the ITaaS delivery model.

How gamification improves customer engagement and retention

Marketing pros and business owners share tips on how to use gaming techniques to attract, educate and retain customers — and sell more stuff.

Does unconscious bias training really work?

Does Silicon Valleyu2019s latest quick-fix for its diversity problem actually work? Or does it just reinforce biases?

What a tea ceremony can teach you about leadership

In the western world, the concept of u201cgo faster, do moreu201d has become the default for business operations. By integrating some east Asian cultural wisdom into our practices, each of us can become a more effective leader.

Why building candidate personas helps you hire the right talent

Learn how using candidate personas can improve the diversity of your candidate pool when sourcing and recruiting.

You hate your boss. Now what?

All of us will probably work for at least one extremely difficult person during our careers. Some coping strategies for an unpleasant working environment may help you chart a new direction.

How to choose a prepaid mobile data plan

Pre-paid data SIM cards are a great way to get 4G LTE data on a device without paying for a long-term contract. Here are seven options if you're looking for a contract-free, pre-paid SIM card for your unlocked smartphone or tablet.

Building a strong web of trust in the machine learning age

Businesses must reconcile the promise of machine learning with user privacy.

Q1s newest CIO appointments

AIG, Sempra Energy, and Yale University are among several organizations that named new CIOs as the first quarter of FY17 comes to a close.

LinkedIn add news curation with ‘trending storylines’

LinkedIn is taking cues from its social networking counterparts and is releasing a separate feed of news articles and topics based on your interests and profession.

AI, machine learning blossom in agriculture and pest control

In a departure from using AI and machine learning tools for tasks such as automating customer service, some companies are applying the technologies to grow better corn crops and exterminate bugs and vermin.

Is the new, cheaper iPad worth buying?

The new iPad starts at just $329, but is it really worth the money? Or should you buy the 9.7-inch iPad Pro instead?

How artificial intelligence is impacting the highest levels of finance

While the jury is still out on how A.I. will shape the future, it is actively shaping our present.

5 tips to ace your next tech interview

Not sure what to expect from your next job interview? These five tips will help you prepare so you can land your dream tech job.

Why Apple dropped iPad’s price to lowest yet

Apple cut the price of its entry-level iPad by almost 18 percent — perhaps in a move to fend off Google in the education market. The company also refreshed the iPhone SE, introduced a red version of the iPhone 7 and announced a new video-editing app

Why AI will rule all UIs

Voice-controlled assistants are proliferating and opening them to third-party app makers is proving to be a key to success u2014 for some assistants more than others.

Build digital DNA: Leveraging M&A to reshape the IT workforce

Tech leaders cannot simply navigate an M&A transaction and then hope for the best u2014 there has to be a clear and actionable road map for building digital DNA.

How AI, machine learning will impact tech recruiting

You're already reaping the benefits of AI and machine learning when you watch TV, get a ride to the airport or shop for clothing — here's how the technology can help you recruit hard-to-find IT talent.

How Target is reimagining its stores to compete in the digital world

Target currently gets less than 5 percent of its retail business from digital, however, CEO Brian Cornell is looking to change that.

Why does Comcast suddenly love Netflix?

AT&T is giving away Apple TVs and Comcast is giving its customers access to Netflix. Is the war between cable and streaming video services about to end?

Crisis prevention and hypocrisy in hiding: a lesson for technology companies

If you preach about innovation and transparency, you better mean it.

How to future-proof your transformation project

Itu2019s impossible at the outset of business transformation to know what adjustments will need to be made.

Even the decade of A.I. requires great people

We hear all about technology, but without talented people, your technology strategy will go nowhere.

IT Career Roadmap: It takes a village to ‘raise’ a CIO

Slow growth ahead for IT outsourcing

Political uncertainty, digital disruption, and continued competition could significantly slow IT services growth over the next three years.

Is the new iPhone SE worth buying?

Apple has upgraded the iPhone SEu2019s storage to 32 GB and 128 GB from 16 GB and 64 GB. Is the iPhone SE worth the money?

FBI investigating possible Trump-Russia collusion, dismisses wiretap allegations

Amid widespread hacking purportedly sanctioned by the Russian government, FBI Director Comey confirms active investigation into potential coordination between Trump campaign and foreign operatives, while shooting down allegations that Obama had Trump

How the internet of things is disrupting tech staffing: Part 2

Tech labor and skills acquisition challenges are interfering with businesses eager to capitalize on IoT's many benefits.

Adobe takes aim at customer experience, partners with Microsoft

With its new Experience Cloud offering, Adobe seeks to help enterprises optimize customer experiences. And working with Microsoft and other partners, it will create a standard semantic data model to make it easier to customize apps, capture behaviora

Windows Server on ARM is for Azure only

What makes the work of porting code to the ARM instruction set worthwhile is both the scale of cloud and the kind of services Microsoft runs in Azure. The economics works for cloud, not your data centers.

8 tech support best practices

Technical support professionals and executives share their tips on how to provide topnotch support that helps both customers and the bottom line.

Why your cloud strategy should include multiple vendors

Cloud computing has become a staple of most enterprise computing environments, but CIOs are still sweating over whether to use one or more infrastructure-as-a-service provider.

10 signs your automation is in trouble

Done well, automation can make your testing effort more efficient and help you get to market faster. Done poorly, it can burn through your budget without providing any real benefit. Here are some signs that your automation effort is in trouble.

For enterprise analytics, good governance isn’t centralized governance

The proliferation of self-service analytics tools in the enterprise presents corporate IT with breakthrough opportunity. Governance of analytics is perhaps the only domain that the strategic CxO should be expected to have primary responsibility for.

Docker and Core OS plan to donate their container technologies to CNCF

The Linux Foundation will become home to yet another critical technologyrn