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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Where, Specifically, Are People Using their Online IT Training?
In all the time that we have been published this blog, we have tended to place our emphasis on rather general topics. We’ve discussed the overall benefits of online information technology training, and the large-scale trends in the IT industry. Naturally, we’ve gotten specific in our efforts to highlight particularly types of training, such as … Read More
Online Information Technology Training Can Bring Down Governments
In the time that this blog has been live, we have focused mostly on industry trends and career prospects related to online information technology training. But along the way, we have made a point of publishing a few features dealing with non-economic aspects of working in information technology. In particular, we’ve discussed the ways in … 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
A Training and Development Specialist for Whole Communities
We’ve brought up this topic on a number of previous occasions, but it bears periodically repeating that a background in computer programming and online information technology training is simultaneously a ticket to a bright future for yourself and an opportunity to help entire communities to develop brighter futures for themselves. To illustrate this fact, we … Read More
IT Training and Certification Available to a Wider Segment of Society
In a previous post at this blog, we discussed the emergence of information technology training programs specifically geared toward the poor and disenfranchised. We also suggested that the first instances of these programs represented a growing trend that would provide substantial opportunities for training and development specialists and for supplemental, online IT training consultancies in … Read More
Scrum Methodology: Still Relevant, Increasingly Versatile
At the start of September, CIO contributor Sharon Florentine conducted an interview with Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-inventors of scrum development methodology. You can read it here. But to reduce Sutherland’s comments to their Cliff’s Notes, we’d say that for anyone who’s considering certified scrum master or certified scrum product owner training, the major … Read More
Extremely Young and Highly International
The need for broad-based information technology training is well-known not just in the Bay Area or the USA, but across the world. In any national economy that is either thoroughly modernized or on the fast-track to development, IT skills and training will be essential to success in the job market of the future. By the … Read More
Train for the IT Field, Get Employed, Have Fun!
Everyone needs a little on-the-job stress relief. When it comes to the information technology field, there is certainly enough stress to go around, given the need for constant professional development and software training courses, and the high demands and tight deadlines involved in most roles. The high levels of compensation and job security make the … Read More
IT Training to Fill Gaps in Educator Training
A recent article at the Huffington Post has recalled attention to the issue of the too-slow integration of technology into K-12 education in the United States of America. It is a refrain that we have been hearing for years. Parents and politicians want the education system to reflect the different ways in which we acquire … Read More
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