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		<title>Ready for Web 3.0?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at FastCompany is a good read on what Amazon’s Chief Scientist, Andreas Weigend, sees on how customers engage with organizations online.  We have moved past Web 2.0 and are now in Web 3.0 land.  According to Andreas: Web 1.0 &#8211; eBusiness &#8211; Getting businesses online Web 2.0 - MeBusiness &#8211; Focusing on the consumer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=205&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 20 Most Popular Programming Languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any kid has the chance to succeed at school in their teen years, but it becomes a whole lot easier if you&#8217;re not worried about getting shoved into lockers, being picked on or having your lunch money pilfered.  Being accepted and getting in with a good crowd takes a huge amount of pressure.  It opens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=197&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is It So Hard To Measure ROI?</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/why-is-it-so-hard-to-measure-ro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asking questions about what the Return on Investment (ROI) is for a project, regardless of whether it&#8217;s software development or data warehousing/business intelligence, people start to fidget.  The same folks who are passionate about the initiative, spent weeks on the requirements and are willing to fight a cage match to get their project to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=190&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner&#8217;s Business Intelligence Outlook for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 18:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the big takeaways from GeoJan&#8217;s highlights of the Gartner&#8217;s predictions for BI in 2010: Compound growth rate for BI platforms through 2013 will be 6.3%. Momentum grows in the shift from a central core of report authors to empowering users to analyze the data themselves to get the answers they really need. SAP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=185&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Your Team Amaze You</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/let-your-team-amaze-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 03:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Managing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagination is more important than knowledge.&#8221;    -Albert Einstein Take a look at your development team(s).  Do you see a bunch of acronyms or are you blown away by their creativity? When you ask for a solution to a problem do you get one answer, or four possible solutions?  Do they ever walk to your desk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=160&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The #1 Reason BI Isn&#8217;t Getting To That Next Level</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/the-1-reason-bi-isnt-getting-to-that-next-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quality is bad. Interesting quote by John Thompson of Kognito: &#8216;[Executives] are saying, “Are you certain that syndicated sales data and marketing data from last year is high quality data I can use to make decisions?” They’re still asking about that.&#8217; When talking about the quality of any system there&#8217;s two parts to it:  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=156&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Yeah, I Have A Blog!</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/a-new-dawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never forgot about my little soapbox on the web.  A lot has been going on over the past few years, but I always missed blogging, reading the comments and hopefully adding insight as much as I received it. Time to dust off the blog and realign it a bit.  I&#8217;ll focus more on what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=143&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does IT Project Management and Jello Have In Common?</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/what-does-it-project-management-and-jello-have-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ABCs of IT Project Management over at CIO Magazine starts off with a great intro: Managing an IT project is like juggling chunks of Jell-O: It’s neither easy nor pretty. It&#8217;s a good article on getting your arms around what project management is, what the challenges are and some approaches to help make sure you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=140&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Be An Expert In One Easy Step</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/how-to-be-an-expert-in-one-easy-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Warehousing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the old days the title of this post would be RTFM. The Help menu is there for a reason and Jeff Smith writes a great piece that explains everyone can be an &#8220;expert&#8221; if they just used the Help feature built into the applications, systems and tools they use.  The information is there and, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=139&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Trends in Data Management</title>
		<link>http://bencraigo.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/top-10-trends-in-data-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Craigo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Warehousing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back on what were popular stories in 2006 over at SearchDataManagement.com is a good indication for we are heading.  These are their their top 10 standouts and trends: 10. Compliance attempts automation.Moving away from Excel in the organization.  It&#8217;s amazing how much critical corporate information is trapped in the XLS jungle.  This is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bencraigo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=552970&amp;post=138&amp;subd=bencraigo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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