Sat.Jan 20, 2018 - Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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Slowly but surely, browsers are becoming more secure

The Parallax

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Your favorite Web browser is inching toward a more secure future, according to new research revealed at the cybersecurity conference ShmooCon here on Sunday. Browsers that security researchers at the Cyber Independent Testing Lab tested on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers have added more security features over the past year, says Sarah Zatko, a former NSA mathematician who heads up the lab she co-founded with her husband, famed hacker Peiter “Mudge” Zatko.

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How Do I Stay Motivated When My Peers Are Lazy?

Let's Grow Leaders

Dear Karin and David, How do I stay motivated when my peers are lazy? I’m working twice as hard as them and I’m sick of picking up the slack. My boss doesn’t seem to notice. Signed, Tired and Frustrated #AskingForAFriend Do’s and […].

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How to master the ways to say NO

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week’s question came from Sam K. [via email]: I lead a team in a very political organization. It’s hard to make things stick. I want to focus my team but I struggle with how to defend priorities as my boss and her peers often change their minds and commit to more things than we can possibly do.

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Which Technologies Will Help Usher in Big Data?

CTOvision

Big Data and Technology Become Intertwined The technology revolution has arrived and it is only going to grow and grow. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, the dissemination of information grew at an incredible rate. Equally important was the printing press’ ability to store information. Informational repositories can be tapped for many additional uses.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

An aggressive malware campaign called Dark Caracal allegedly stole “hundreds of gigabytes of data” from thousands of military personnel, lawyers, activists, finance and medical professionals, and journalists across more than 21 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, and South Korea, according to a report published Thursday.

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Some business leaders eager to keep a competitive advantage often invest in new technologies without fully understanding how to harness their potential or fully considering how digital technologies

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The Ultimate UX Hook – Anticipatory, Persuasive, and Emotional Design in UX

Toptal

Some products prove irresistible because they combine psychological design techniques that create an ultimate UX hook: anticipatory, persuasive, and emotional design.

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Big Data’s Impact on Advertising

CTOvision

Big data is a megatrend, and one that has bulldozed its way into a variety of industries and causes. It’s not just a small chain of disruptions, but rather a complete evolution. Healthcare, aviation, education and job training are all excellent examples of how big data is changing the current landscape. Healthcare, in particular, will […].

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How Are You Expressing Gratitude as a Leader?

Steve Farber

There’s all sorts of science out there that supports the notion that gratitude is good for us. Psychology Today, for instance, ran an article not long ago that listed seven “scientifically proven” benefits of having a thankful attitude. Among them: You’ll be more physically fit, sleep better, and increase your mental strength. Plus, you’ll become fabulously wealthy.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Four Advantages of Leveraging a Cross-Functional Team

Career Advancement

“Entrepreneurs as ‘soloists’ will be replaced by orchestras playing a stronger, more credible tune.” ~Steve Case~. Tamara felt her department was too isolated from the rest of the organization. As she stepped into a higher-level managerial position, she talked with her mentor about how to change this situation. Her mentor advised her to develop a cross-functional team of people who worked together in close communication.

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Price Elasticity 2.0: From Theory to The Real World

Toptal

Price elasticity theory was once the haunt of classical economists, with loose applications in the real world. Today, companies such as Uber, with its sheer volume of data and surge algorithms, are able to continuously triangulate price elasticities in real time to manipulate demand, moment-to-moment. This article introduces the fundamentals of price elasticity of demand theory before taking us back into the real world, where theory will meet both big data and consumer psychology to create new p

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How Towing Companies are Advancing with Technology

CTOvision

Towing is one of those industries where people imagine that every company is behind the times when it comes to technology. This might come from the stereotypical image of the past. However, today tow companies are using technology to make them perform better, faster, and cheaper. Companies in this industry that don't follow suit could […].

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Gender Pay Gap is Shrinking Among Freelancers and Self-Employed Workers

Women on Business

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Contest: Take a photo and win free signed books (+$100)

Scott Berkun

Do you like to take photos? Do you own at least one of my books? Then this contest is for you. Take a photo that shows the books of mine you own, share it and you get a chance to win a bundle of all 7 of my books personally signed to you and a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate so you can buy even more books (or other nice things). To enter to win : Take a fun photo of your Berkun book inventory (you need at least one book :) Selfies are welcome.

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Command Line Tools for Developers

Toptal

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Piotr Gaczkowski explains how to make the most out of command line tools and lists some of the best tools out there.

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CTOvision Tech News Update

CTOvision

Tech news over the last week confirms many trends you are already no doubt tracking. Globally, cybersecurity incidents show a continued evolution of tactics, techniques and methods, but the most sinister still seem to involve old fashioned deception tactics. Deception tactics are now being used to attack cryptocurrency wallets. If you have your own cryptocurrency […].

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What enterprises will focus on for digital transformation in 2018

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Up until this year, organizations could often afford to overlook the bigger picture for various digital upgrades, improvements, and modernization. In 2018, these threads will now become so connected that increasingly holistic digital transformation efforts will focus on more customer and worker-centric models for better organizing how they function to avoid disruption while creating value faster and more effectively.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Three things you are doing wrong when training your developers

Zend

Avoid these three problems that managers often run into when developing and executing a developer training program. The post Three things you are doing wrong when training your developers appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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The Future of Teams: Managing The Blended Workforce

Toptal

Discover the eight key competencies critical to creating a sustainable blended workforce, and learn how managers can best adapt their businesses to the future of teams.

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How You Can Grow Your Business Enterprise by the Use of Technology

CTOvision

Many business enterprises from small companies to big corporations find it hard to know the right timing to incorporate digital tools in their operations since technology is advancing at a breakneck pace. However, it is critical for a business manager or owner to realize that lagging to far behind these technological innovations of even failure […].

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Establishing a Moving Company In New York – Tips For Women

Women on Business

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How to find your WHY

Lead on Purpose

A key focus of this blog—from its beginning—has been purpose. Leading on purpose, working with purpose; doing things intentionally, doing things for the right reason. Though topics have led in various directions, the core focus has been purpose.

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Presentation Design and the Art of Visual Storytelling

Toptal

Discover a practical approach to designing results-oriented presentations and learn the importance of crafting a compelling narrative.

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Privoro: Advanced anti-surveillance platform for smartphones

CTOvision

Modern smartphones leak information everywhere they go. Those of us who track matters like this know it and try to minimize risk, but still it is a horrible choice we have to make. Do we bring the smartphone and give up privacy and allow ourselves to be tracked and monitored, or do we leave it […].

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“Jobpocalypse”: How Robots Are Changing the Job Market

CO2 Business Leadership

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been dramatized in plenty of science fiction movies. In these films, the robots gain consciousness, realize that humans are their enemy or simply unnecessary, and attempt to destroy them. While it doesn’t seem likely that robots will be attempting to eradicate the human race anytime soon, they’ve begun to present us with some frightening dilemmas.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Starting Out - What works, how fast, and why?

Ron Jeffries

There's a lot of noise going on on the Twitter just now, about starting with Scrum, with kanban, or with nothing. Here are some thoughts.

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Digital Transformation in the Field: CSR Connect

Toptal

Learn how CSR Limited, a global leader in the construction supply industry, partnered with Toptal to digitize a 150-year-old supply chain to optimize operations and delight customers.

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Cisco Systems’ John Chambers Announces New VC Fund

CTOvision

John Chambers is widely known as one of the great visionaries of IT, helping us all better understand the power and potential of what can be. He led Cisco Systems through exciting periods as they helped the world smartly transform to take advantage of wave after wave of technology revolution and did so with style. He […].

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