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#91

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by BigDun - April 29, 2014, 07:47:04 PM

I love it! Great writing and I love the passion you put into it. I only read a few post but I am bookmarking it and will read them all. Would it be ok if I linked it from my facebook and website?

Please feel free to link them everywhere!

I should say that, other than the first page's posts, they aren't as well written.

#92

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by swolt - April 29, 2014, 10:48:39 AM

I love it! Great writing and I love the passion you put into it. I only read a few post but I am bookmarking it and will read them all. Would it be ok if I linked it from my facebook and website?

#93

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by Gamplayerx - April 22, 2014, 08:57:41 PM

While you are at it, feel free to forward these to your IT geek friends and see if they have feedback that will help me improve my blog (they can leave comments in the articles' comments boxes).

You guys ARE my IT geek friends!

#94

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by BigDun - April 16, 2014, 11:02:40 PM

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That's why I like this one so much: http://itiltopia.com/?p=526 - It doesn't require any understanding of the esoteric background.

#95

Occupy My Mind! / Re: YouTube Addiction

Last post by BigDun - April 16, 2014, 09:29:15 PM

Ok, this one started off kind of slow, but if you keep with it, the shows grow on you: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl4T6p7km9dYLInN8vFmq4XJPzxKOHtC5

Interestingly, the shows are in reverse order with highest numbered shows being the oldest.

#96

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by dc - April 16, 2014, 08:58:49 PM

You get the basic understanding across quite well -- provided you have some understanding of change management or ITIL. 

I'm not so sure I'd worry about what a lay person would get out of it.  They'd need multiple posts explaining all the terminology, methodology and rationales for it.  You'd quickly find yourself bogged down in just doing that.  But your target audience is people who already have at least some basic background, so that doesn't matter.

But it's certainly readable and they make for good blog postings.  Clear and direct enough to make it a bit less dry. I hesitate to say "executive summaries" because of the negative connotations, but they serve a similar purpose.  Quick and clear discussions.

I do have some basic knowledge of ITIL (and PMP), but as I said, we don't employ any of it in our environment.

#97

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by BigDun - April 09, 2014, 10:39:17 PM

Ok, I'm kind of proud of this one: http://itiltopia.com/?p=526

#98

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by BigDun - April 09, 2014, 12:49:03 AM

So ITIL is kind of like Lean Six Sigma or CMMI for IT organizations?

mmm.... Not really.

By the way, NASA has fully endorsed ITIL's best practices for IT (http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocio/ittalk/06-2010_itil.html). I would be curious as to what the desktop techs who deal with day-to-day issues think of ITIL.

#99

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by BigDun - April 09, 2014, 12:36:50 AM

Ok, for the last 5 entries in my blog I have been writing from scratch with my wife proof reading. I have a few questions about my latest entries. I'll take the last one as a prime (albeit obscure) example.

Even though you don't know anything about the very specialized area of IT I am speaking to, If you read this: http://itiltopia.com/?p=485 do you:

1: Get a basic understanding of what I am trying to convey
2: Feel that the material is written in a readable style
3: See the few points where I try to inject humor into a horribly dry subject

By the way, if you want to read something that is understandable by a lay person, read this post: http://itiltopia.com/?p=376 and give me your opinions.

While you are at it, feel free to forward these to your IT geek friends and see if they have feedback that will help me improve my blog (they can leave comments in the articles' comments boxes).

#100

Geekapalooza / Re: I Created a Blog

Last post by BigDun - April 03, 2014, 09:29:36 PM

So ITIL is kind of like Lean Six Sigma or CMMI for IT organizations?

mmm.... Not really.