Reuters reports that a study by Harvey Nash found that women in senior technology positions is down to 9% this year, down from 11% last year and 12% in 2010. The report also states that the majority surveyed said their organization is facing a skills shortage in business analysis and project management.
As a woman, have you or someone you know feel you have been misrepresented? Check out this film which illustrates the powerful message that media sends in its often disparaging depiction of women and the resulting fallout that many young girls and women experience, including self esteem, beauty, body image, career choices and more..
The film takes a brave look at how negative media portrayal contributes to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, making it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself!
The 90 minute film will be followed by a lively panel discussion featuring women with expertise in areas including media, education, political access and gender studies, and will include audience response through Q&A.
Learn more:
http://www.missrepresentation.org/post-cards/carpinteria-womans-club/
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Is Information Technology going soft by promoting meaningful use? Yes, in Health Care. Think for a moment, your last visit to the doctor, did she or he still have your profile in a folder? Did your doctor write in cryptic shorthand that only he can read? Makes you wonder if this was being done on purpose. Health care is moving from paper-base and evolving to health infomatics. Just as you can log in to your bank account, you can log in to review your health records and can actually understand it. That’s hi-tech, health techie!
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009, to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.
http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/community/healthit_hhs_gov__home/1204
Be confident. Know what you want from life and stay the course. Give what you can offer in return.
The health information technology industry is booming due to the economic stimulus boost.
The Project Management Institute surveyed more than 30,000 project management professionals in 29 countries. In the U.S. alone, 13,572 project management professionals responded to the survey.
Annualized Salary By Position Description: United States
Base salaries for various project management-related job titles.
| Position | Percent Reporting | 25th Percentile | Median | 75th Pecentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMO Director | 6% | $105,000 | $127,000 | $151,000 |
| Portfolio Manager | 6% | $101,000 | $125,000 | $151,000 |
| Program Manager | 24% | $97,000 | $115,000 | $135,000 |
| Project Manager III | 28% | $89,000 | $102,000 | $120,000 |
| Project Manager II | 16% | $78,000 | $92,975 | $110,000 |
| Project Manager I | 9% | 70,050 | $87,000 | $105,000 |
| Project Management Specialist | 4% | $68,775 | $87,000 | $105,000 |
| Project Management Consultant | 7% | 88,000 | $108,546 | $135,000 |
The July 2010 Computer.org career news reports:
US small and medium-sized business channel partners may lose from 200,000 to 250,000 jobs in the next decade as the rapid growth of cloud computing reduces the need for internal IT staff, according to a recent study by AMI-Partners. More than 1.3 million people are currently employed in this area.
TECH BIT: 64-BIT IS THE NEW BYTE
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 version is here.
SharePoint 2010 is a rich platform for enterprise and user collaboration, data storage, and information retrieval. SharePoint 2010 needs 64-bit software and hardware. SharePoint 2010 also offers browser support with Internet Explorer 7.x and higher (32-bit) and Firefox 3.x and higher (32-bit), which are both supported as Level 1 browsers.
TECH TIP: When accessing cloud computing into your plan, consider IDC cloud services survey which reveals security, availability and performance as top challenges.
TECH TIP: INCLUDE QUALITY IN YOUR PLAN
A colleague of mine gave a talk on Quality and Quality tools. It’s good to be reminded that the definition of quality is different for everyone. If you are from an engineering or manufacturing sector, you would speak of number of defects, if you are a tennis pro you would speak of excellence or performance. If you are an IT specialist customizing a software application you would measure quality by customer satisfaction and the successful delivery of requirements such as features and functions. Different aspects of quality to consider also, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement.
There are numerous tools available in measuring quality; control charts, statistical sampling, quality audits, cost-benefit analysis, just to name a few.
National Center for Women & Information Technology reports:
In 2003, only one-third of women with a computer science bachelor’s degree were still employed in a science, engineering or technical (SET ) job two years after graduation.
Seventy-four percent of women in technology report “loving their work,” yet these women leave their careers at a staggering rate: 56 percent of technical women leave at the “mid-level” point just when the loss of their talent is most costly to companies. This is more than double the quit rate for men.
National Center for Women & Information Technology reports:
TECH TIP: INCLUDE BUSINESS CONTINUITY IN YOUR PLAN
Business Continuity: Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies and Technologies dated 3/31/2008
Aberdeen benchmark report survey of 150 end-user organizations. Best-in-class IT organizations have built infrastructures that support rapid recovery of data and applications with minimal or no downtime which assures business continuity even in the face of a severe disruption event.
While 62% experienced between 1 and 5 business interruption events in the last 12 months
I attended a talk by Richard Seroter whose topic was “Exploiting SOA Strategies for Software Solutions”.
Details are here: http://www.ieee-bv-cs.org/meetings/
The industry chatter over Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has subsided and analysts have even provocatively proclaimed that “SOA is dead.” However, utility (e.g. “cloud”) computing has risen as a viable architecture pattern, and once again SOA is front and center.
Richard Seroter is a solutions architect at Amgen and author of SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 (Packt Publishing, 2009), as he looks at what SOA really is, how to build to that pattern, and how to use SOA strategies to unlock legacy assets and leverage new assets in the cloud.
You know you are not the typical tourist when you find yourself with your significant other in Paris, getting all giggly and excited while dragging him towards the Grande Arch to go visit Musee de L’informatique. You won’t find Mona Lisa there, neither the Thinker, nor would you find impressionist paintings. What you will find is the information technology museum. It is the first of its kind in Europe, opened in April 2008. The museum retraces the evolution of information technology from the first calculators before 1940 to the present day.
Website: www.grandearche.com/musee-de-l-informatique
We are really in the ether now, quiet heavenly!
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2. Highly refined; delicate. See Synonyms at airy.3. a. Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.b. Not of this world; spiritual.4. Chemistry Of or relating to ether.
