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• ChannelTrends: Top 10 Initiatives to Watch For From CompTIA’s Member Communities in 2013

  by Brian Sherman on Wednesday, April 10, 2013

  Tags: U.K. Channel , women , mobility , Unified Communications , Managed Services Provider (MSP) , managed print , communities , Cloud , Generations , women in IT , Managed Print Services , service , Cloud Computing , Security , community , Managed Services , AWIT , print management

  One of the biggest reasons why entrepreneurs join industry associations is to gain access to a variety of business improvement resources and educational programs that would be costly to recreate or purchase on their own. Those business tools and best practices are particularly hard to come by in the IT channel, and the expense of ...

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• ChannelTrends: Inspiring a New Generation of IT Professionals

  by Brian Sherman on Friday, August 17, 2012

  Tags: Member Connections , BKWY12 , Advancing Women in IT , Member News , womenIT , events , AWIT

  Despite the experiences of many solution providers, some suggest that there isn’t a real IT skills shortage, but a lack of key talent in the right location. Regardless of whose opinion you believe, the IT community needs to do a better job of inspiring youth and other industries’ displaced workers to pursue a career in ... Read More

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• ChannelTrends: The Leadership Factor

  by Brian Sherman on Friday, August 10, 2012

  Tags: ChannelTrends , MSP Partners , communities , MSP , Cloud , BKWY12 , Advancing Women in IT , Cloud/SaaS , AWIT

  Leadership is defined as a function, act or role in guiding groups or individuals, but those who attended last week's CompTIA Breakaway conference know that description doesn't do it justice. The members who step up to head each of the association's 11 peer communities aren't paid for their efforts, and most spend hundreds of hours ... Read More

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• You Get Out What You Put In

  by Lisa Fasold on Thursday, August 02, 2012

  Tags: BKWY12 , Advancing Women in IT , itwomen , events , AWIT

  At one point in her long IT career, Nellie Scott’s superiors didn’t want to train her female staff because they thought women were more likely to leave the company, particularly as they approached motherhood.  Scott, now a manager at Lenovo, gave a winning argument back, ending with, “What if you don’t train them and ... Read More

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• Love of Technology Does Not Always Translate into Career Interest

  by Anna Matthai on Tuesday, June 12, 2012

  Tags: ITworkforce , Member Connections , teens , Advancing Women in IT , Careers , market research , Member News , Tech Workforce , AWIT

  For recent generations the digital era is not an emerging trend but simply the status quo. Previous generations have had to learn or “un-learn” and part ways with legacy technologies before adopting new technologies, but Gen Y (aka “millennials” born 1982-1994) and Gen Z (aka “digital natives” born 1995-2011) have been immersed in the technologies ... Read More

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