It’s interesting that our previous post to this blog discussed our plans to stretch beyond the previous limitations that we’ve noticed in the topics that we deal with. That post acknowledged the need for more specific examples of employers and jobs in which one might utilize IT certifications and the skills learned from an online … Read More
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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
Conferences May Open the Way to Competitions Over IT Skills
In the past, we have recommended that you remain mindful of conferences and events that you can attend to help understand the IT job market, to network with other IT professionals, and determine what sorts of online information technology training are most important to your prospective career path. We also promised that we would make … Read More
More Examples of IT Training as a Force for Good
We’ve discussed this topic on the Canvas Info Tech blog before, but we’re always eager to take another look at the incentives that might exist for people to pursue online information technology training, other than in order to make great money in the IT field. For some candidates, certified scrum master training or ITIL training … 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
Project Management and Data Analysis: The Overlap of IT Skills
At the beginning of the month, David Cotgreave of Project Accelerator News wrote an article that we considered interesting because it implicitly made the case for the overlap between two very different categories of online information technology training. As the name of the news source suggests, the article starts from the standpoint of project management … 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
IT Training and Development as a Tool to Help Others Out of Poverty
In a previous blog post, we discussed an essay by Melinda Gates which made the case that technology could be a force for positive social change, if developed and used by capable, earnest hands. It was our hope that the topic would inspire some readers to seek out information technology training for reasons other than … Read More
IT Job Placements: Now for Philosophers and Historians!
Joshua B. Gross recently wrote an excellent and thought-provoking article for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it he refers to information technology job placements as the “accidental career for Ph.Ds.” He makes a compelling argument, grounded in personal experience, and we recommend that everyone read it, especially if you are worried about a perceived … Read More
IT Job Placements Can be Good for Your Bank Account and for the World
On Wednesday, the New York Times published a brief editorial by Melinda Gates, the wife of the world’s richest man and the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Their charity is often held up as a prime example of the good that can be done when extraordinary financial success meets a healthy sense … Read More
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