$100,000+ Salary to Blog on the Beach

Do you like to blog? Do you like to lay on the beach? Would you like to make a six figure income? If you answered 'Yes' to all of these questions, than this could be the perfect job for you!!... http://www.islandreefjob.com/

I heard about this, this morning on the radio while driving into work (battling the rush-hour traffic). Just to make me feel even better about my hour and a half drive each way... This is unarguably a great PR tactic in not only giving someone a chance at their "dream job" but while doing so, drawing attention to the company's island resort destination from around the world! It definitely did not fall on deaf ears here. I put my coffee back in the cup-holder and said out loud "I could do that!". I am sure they are reaching well into the six figure mark for applicants and I would most likely get lost in the mix (especially with my limited blogging "experience").

The job (if you can really call it that) is based on Hamilton Island which is located just off the the coast of Queensland, Australia. The details of the opportunity sound like paradise... Travel the islands and Great Barrier Reef, lay on the beach, chat with locals and visitors, and blog about it! If you don't mind this type of STRENUOUS activity, then check it out... I did!

Web-based vs. on-site email solutions

As there have been discussions continuing to arise in regards to the costs of technology, e-mail service is one that was sure to show up on the agenda. With articles like THIS one, discussing the decision to move a company's e-mail services to a cloud solution, things like security don't seem to gain the limelight as much as one would think.

There is a focus on the cost savings and ease of accessibility, which are great, but there is also much that is lost with a solution like this. Information ownership, legal litigation, data integrity, and records maintenance to name a few. Yes, it will definitely change the costs to your bottom line but what are the non-monetary costs that are being lost? Is it worth the risks? These are questions that only the institutions relying on services like these can answer and the responses are sure to vary widely.

What do you think??

BIT 511 - Business Information Technology Trends and Issues

This will be the fifth of my courses taken to-date at Walsh College. Looks to be a good one. I just ordered my books yesterday from Amazon and UPS tells me they should arrive today... Zero chapters read so far and seven to go before class next Tuesday... Wish me luck!

Books:
Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams (2006)
The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr (2008)

Find the course description here.

¡Mi primer poste!... (Translation: "My first post!")

Well, I created this a while ago but never did anything with it. So... there, now I have!