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A Few Words From Chuck Brooks, FutureWare's president and cofounderA Few Words From The Speaker

Topic Outlines
 Information Security
 Rolling Your Own Software
 Warming Up To Cold-Calling
 Behind The Blog
 Software Code Reviews

Where Every Investment Has To Come Back Quickly With Friends Attached

Large companies have internal Information Technology departments. This is often a luxury that small companies can rarely afford, where every investment, whether in IT, advertising, marketing or anything, has to have a quick and demonstrable payback. Theres seldom anyone in a small company who has the expertise in IT to evaluate various initiatives for their possible contribution to the bottom line, or sales, or operating efficiencies, either from a purely technical issue or, more importantly, from a business and ROI perspective.

Straight Talks For Non-Techies On Ways Of Exploiting Technology

Weve explored and explained some of these enough times to have put them into presentations specifically designed for small businesses (either singly or in groups of up to thirty), who have limited time and technical expertise, but sufficient for them to get a good overview that they can put to use immediately. Each topic lasts about twenty minutes, followed by questions and answers questions, and emailed follow-ups if more detail or background is needed.

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Topic# 1: Information Security Outline

  • Do You Really Have To Know? Not every piece of data is connected to every other piece of data
  • Can You Take It With You? Whats important and whats...maybe not
  • What To Do When The Levee Breaks It WILL happen to you
  • When You Have To Go Theres a reason that Andy Groves is right
  • In Case Of Emergency Why submariners are thrown in the water after they get their Dolphins
  • So You Want To Go Public (Maybe) Compliance considerations to keep in mind (or else)
  • The Internet No one is safe
  • The Bad Guys Are Always One Step Ahead Anyone can write software
  • Firewalls, Routers And Brickhouses One can never be too this, too that or too the other
  • Resources And References
  • Recap In Twenty-Five Words Or Less
  • Questions And Answers

Topic# 2: Rolling Your Own Software Outline

  • Theres No Gravity Here Why it doesnt last very long.
  • Like Writing A Book No single right way, but a lot of wrong ones
  • What The Pros Use The C-Suite folks dont eat their own dogfood
  • You Dont Have To Leave Kansas What you need may be in your own back yard
  • Keep It Simple Who are those guys, and why are they important?
  • Silos And Cornfields Why go where no one has before?
  • Would You Buy A Used Car From This Man? Why the general liked Traveller
  • We Dont Need No Stinking History! Why the wheel reinventing business is big
  • Show Me The Code! How an introverted physicist saved Tennessee
  • Resources And References
  • Recap In Twenty-Five Words Or Less
  • Questions And Answers

Topic# 3: Warming Up To Cold-Calling Outline

  • Equipment Landlines, VIOP, and wireless
  • Preparation You cant practice enough
  • What Did You Say? Crackles and pops
  • Stand Up Straight Project power and confidence
  • When Make a note of that
  • Keep It Quiet Mocking birds and air conditioners
  • Dont Use The Computer Respect
  • Practice Makes Permanent And sometimes perfect
  • Resources And References
  • Recap In Twenty-Five Words Or Less
  • Questions And Answers

Topic# 4: Behind The Blog: Putting A Blog To Work For You Outline

  • A View From The Headlands Introduction and overview
  • What Is A Blog And Why Its Important
  • The First Division Of Labor Who Actually Does The Work?
  • Whats It All About? Nothing new under the Sun
  • The Second Division Of Labor Where is the work done?
  • Getting Started Schedules
  • Spam Its worse than you think
  • Toxic Dumps Trust but verify II
  • The Numbers Who else pays attention?
  • How To Know When Youve Arrived Monetization is all about eyeballs
  • Sponser Yourself Internal links
  • Production Schedules, revisited
  • Resources And References
  • Recap In Twenty-Five Words Or Less
  • Questions And Answers

Software Code Reviews: Interviews By CIO.com

FutureWare Software Code Reviews ArticlesSoftware Code Reviews are one way to manage software development, but they can abused like any tool. FutureWare participated in a series of interviews by CIO.com on how code reviews can be managed, to increase product effectiveness as well as avoiding potential pitfalls. These interviews can be downloaded as a free PDF file, for use by anyone interested in or involved with software development, be they coders to business owners.

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