February 2009

Cisco Training on a Budget

February 27, 2009

I originally posted this on the Cisco Powered Technical Community Forum. I thought I would share some recent experiences with locating training for people who are fairly new to Cisco networking. We’re trying to stretch our training dollars as far as we can, so we met with a local training partner, CCBootcamp. They worked with [...]

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Term Paper Results

February 23, 2009

I got the results of my term paper from school and from work. The MSIA program at Norwich focuses on performing consultant-type work for the student’s employer as part of the learning experience. In fact, the audience for each seminar’s term paper is the student’s management. The course work is very focused and allows the [...]

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1/3 of way to MSIA degree

February 22, 2009

I submitted my term paper yesterday, finishing my work for the first semester. This time next year, I should be finished with my school work. I’ve enjoyed the course work so far. It has been an interesting experience acting like a consultant for my company. I’ve wondered what it would be like to be a [...]

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Technical knowledge and skills aren’t enough

February 1, 2009

The more time I spend in management, the more clear it is to me that technical knowledge and skills are not enough to be successful. That applies to those in management as well as to the folks who are actually performing the work. I’m sure everyone knows someone who is great at what they do, [...]

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