Month: January 2011

If you’re going to wave a sword, know where the pointy bit is

Over the weekend two Irish newspapers (Irish Examiner and Sunday Tribune) reported that one of our leading Trade Unions had filed a complaint with the Data Protection Commissioner on behalf of staff who had received letters by courier from their employer with whom they are engaged in an industrial relations dispute. While I’m all in …

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The curious case of Enda and the Technology

Enda Kenny found himself slightly ambushed on the news last night (6-One News on RTE) by Bryan Dobson. At the end of a segment about the trials and tribulations of Brian Cowen, Enda was asked about the problems that have befallen the FG website. Enda’s response was telling on a number of fronts. He indicated …

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Fine Gael’s website: some thoughts

It looks like there’s been some rework done on the FG website to address Data Protection concerns. This good and is to be commended. It is also in line with how the Data Protection Commissioner works with organisations who have compliance issues.  However, issues did exist prior to yesterday which will continue to present challenges …

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Setting tone from the Top

In the rush to adopt new technologies and new ways of working, particularly When an organisation embarks on a change to systems and processes it is often very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of enthusiasm for the new technology and the promised benefits of new ways of working. Nearly 2 years ago …

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Wordle me this

Thanks to Jim Harris over at OCDQBlog.com I came across Wordle, which creates word clouds (like tag clouds) based on text content. Here’s a link to the Word Cloud for this blog. I think the theme of my personal blogging is clear from this image… Not a great post to start 2011, but there is …

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