As you’ve no doubt noticed if you’ve been reading for a while, a lot of the content at this blog is aimed at driving home the message that information technology training is well worth pursuing because it leads to stable and lucrative careers. However, we would not want to be accused of presenting a distorted … Read More
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Online Information Technology Training and Telemedicine
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve probably encountered posts that emphasized the broad range of potential applications for online information technology training and associated programs offered by Canvas InfoTech. It remains an important point, given the ongoing and often rapidly escalating integration of information technology resources into fields as diverse as … Read More
Business Analyst Roles and Responsibilities in Diverse Fields
On Monday, Forbes published an article that is likely to be relevant to people who are pursuing certain kinds of online information technology training and are interested in finding business analyst roles and responsibilities in new and interesting fields of business. The article featured an interview with Emmett Williams, the president and co-founder of MYZONE, … Read More
The Value of Real-World Agile Training
Last week, an article appeared at CIO which asked a very basic question, and one that certainly should be of interest to a major portion of the visitors to this blog: Is agile training or the coursework for a similar certification worth the price tag and the opportunity cost that goes into acquiring them? Sharon … Read More
Alternatives to Online Information Technology Training
Over the weekend, the News & Observer published an article that addressed two important topics with respect to the IT industry and the field of online information technology training. It pointed out, first of all, that women are still significantly under-represented in computing careers. Specifically, they comprise about 26 percent of the jobs in the … Read More
Don’t Limit Yourself to the “Best” Information Technology Fields
On Sunday, New Jersey’s The Record ran an article that highlighted the still highly positive outlook for information technology jobs and went on to specify four specific degrees or fields of study that one might expect to pay off remarkably well in the coming years. The article provides a handful of meaningful data points to … Read More
Pursuing IT Training in Spite of Negative Growth
This week, there were some negative signs regarding the near-term growth of the information technology industry. In fact, as of the time of this post those signs were still accumulating, with some companies having already released quarterly reports that show a downturn, while others were expected to release similar reports in the coming days. This … Read More
IT Security Threats Growing Rapidly
A new article at InfoWorld deals with the topics of malware and IT security in the present day, when security challenges are growing by leaps and bounds, and on a daily basis. The article gives the same information in a few different ways, which is understandable since the statistics are staggering. It points out that … Read More
ITIL Training: Relevance Revisited
The JAVA Developers’ Journal recently published an article asking the question, “Is ITIL still relevant?” While the answer is less than thorough, the article is still interesting just by virtue of the fact that it exists. It exists and it is not alone. We’ve noticed that this question seems to appear on a fairly regular … Read More
Modern Project Management Calls for Flexibility
Just ahead of the New Year, the Huffington Post published an article focusing on the very modern risks and opportunities facing project management in the coming year and beyond. While the author of that article writes from the perspective of banking and finance, but the observations are relevant to our own areas of expertise as … Read More