According to internet.com I just might stay employed ;-) Read on...Surviving The Perfect IT Storm"Q: What IT workers will survive this shift and retain their corporate jobs?

Project managers will make it. Analysts with good communication skills will make it. Literate people who can understand tech but can also communicate effectively about it will last.

Q: What skills will IT workers need to develop?

They'll need the ability to grasp horizontal business processes that span business departments. The purchasing department buys stuff and the accounts payable department cuts the checks. You've got to understand how those departments work together and what needs to happen to make them work. They'll also need the ability to monitor vendors for levels of quality and negotiate service-level agreements. We're looking at managerial skills -- not keeping the servers up because there will be fewer servers with greater capacity.

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The Art of Building a Successful IT DepartmentThey can be in HR but they'll be assigned to report to the CIO and work for the IT shop. They need to be trained in finance or human resources or communication. These are soft IT skills, but they are important to the IT staff's functions. Some direct reports will be technical people but a lot will not be. That may be a surprise for the technically trained CIOs or executives.

The Art of Building a Successful IT Department

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I've done an ounce of scripting. Learning PHP might be advantageous, as it can be embedded in HTMl.PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Referred by Bronze Frogs, find here the W3C standard definitions for the various elements that can be defined by CSS styles. Box model

Bronze Frogs' Tangled web gives you the straight skinny on web page layout: Tangled web At first glance, I was lost. I expected to see a little piece of code, but I am proud to see that Bronze Frogs teaches you how to fish and doesn't just pass you the net. Go Mom! :-) --kate

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Creating linked text in Blogger or html

1. logon to blogger.com and go to posts window of dicastaldi.blogspot.com.
2. Find post with URL to holiday skating. From the lower preview panel click its EDIT link. The text (URL int his case) will appear in the upper edit posts pane.

3. highlight the URL. Jump to this email and copy this code, then paste it over the URL in blogger.<'A href="http://www.skatevmsr.com/HolidaySkating.htm">Holiday Skating !<'/a> Note if you wish it to open in a new window so that people can still get to your page, add target="_blank" parameter inside the href tag, preferably after the end ".
<'A href=http://www.skatevmsr.com/HolidaySkating.htm target="_blank">Holiday Skating !<'/a> (note, remove the single quotes. I only put them here so you the code wouldn't render.)

4. Click POST to view the link. You may click edit again and change your text that will appear or add other comments as desired. Click POST and PUBLISH (or just publish if you have no more changes.)

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So which of the following ways is the best way to DEVELOP THE CONTENT THAT DESCRIBES PROCESS? --kateBoxes and Arrows: Building the Beast: Talking with Peter Morville We haggled over process. Lou liked to constantly re-architect the book. I can’t tell you how many times he “tweaked” the table of contents. I preferred to just write the damn thing and organize it later. Fortunately, this collaborative tension resulted in a better product, and we’re still talking to each other.

the head-space project : v5 "And we're looking for more content. Many great creative thinkers already have their own sites, so we're inviting people to contribute something unique to Head-Space that can link to their own sites... a 'teaser' you could say. But as usual nothing we feature can be commercial. We hope it's an interesting challenge!" - head space

Web Design Companies Firms Graphic Design Books Design Gallery Typography Web Links Blog T-shirts

intruiging, many layers of navigation including site maps, help, and more. unfortunately I can only read about half of it. --kate p.s. this cyburg site was referred by digitalwebmagazine in the article on navigation and simplicity. Cyburg

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On making a personal journey crossing the bridge from the tech people from whom I desperately seek respect, to the creatives who give me life, I begin to think what tools I might need to complete my trek. Business 2.com has an article on creatives. One heading is Understanding How Creatives Think. I dare any tech I know and love to embrace this journey and embrace me as I cross this bridge.

Business 2.0 - Web Article - Making Creativity Work

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Here's an Oct. 6, 2002 article from internet.com about the bill you just read about: E-Gov Act May Still Pass Muster

Polish up your sales contacts enherent! --kate Bush Signs e-Government Act"resident George W. Bush this morning signed the Electronic Government Act of 2002, a bill that earmarks $345 million over the next four years for federal technology projects, according to the White House Press Office. "

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Consider when writing a huge requirements spec several things. 1) are you creating business prequirements, process requirements, system requirements, software requirements? Take this blurb from Project World: ProjectWorld - Case Modeling "Many practitioners confuse this “system” process model with a “business” process model, or process map. Both use cases and process maps describe processes. The former describes the reaction of a system to an external trigger. Process maps also describe processes, but from the perspective of who does what in the organization. In both cases the process is described with one verb and one noun, known as an action and an object, and in both instances inputs are transformed into outputs."

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webWAVE Ongoing Development Process A Private Web is built using the rapidly changing technology of the Internet. It is therefore constantly changing and improving. To facilitate that rapid change, the webWAVE ongoing development process offers a structure for decision making and prioritization during the enhancement process.

webWAVE Development Process A Private Web (or Intranet) is not just a cheap replacement for existing client/server transaction systems. It is an entirely new, receiver-based, corporate communications model.

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ProjectWorld - Charting Your Own Course 1) They acknowledge the need for consistency
2) They see the process as a growth process
3) They believe in metrics
4) They believe in shared data

ProjectWorld - Charting Your Own Course "So how do you know when a tomato is mature? Is it when it’s red? If so, you’ll wind up with Yellow Pear, Lemon Boy and Green Zebra growing soft on the vine. Is it when they have changed color? The Green Zebra never will change much. Is it when they become soft to the touch? For many of the grape-sized tomatoes, that will only happen when they’re completely rotten. Kiss your Pink Chiquitas goodbye!"
- Carl Pritchard, PMP

Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. Capsule - Hoover's Online"The holding company’s portfolio includes over 1,000 mostly mall-based women’s apparel shops in about 45 states under the Casual Corner, August Max, and Petite Sophisticate banners. Retail Brand Alliance also owns 160-store chain Brooks Brothers (men's suits and women's clothing); Carolee Designs (jewelry and accessories designer); and Adrienne Vittadini, a women's sportswear designer. President and CEO Claudio Del Vecchio owns Retail Brand Alliance, which he acquired as the Casual Corner Group in 1997 from his father's company, Luxottica Group (operator of LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut)."

Average Numbers in a Column range... Average only from answers, notzero values:

=IF(COUNT(D6:D9)>0,SUM(D6:D9)/COUNT(D6:D9),0)

To sum non range use cell+cell+cell in place of above ranges

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