Stranger Danger and Other Kindergarten Rules For a More Secure Workplace

Throughout National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), people all over the world are taking steps to raise awareness, learn to better defend themselves, and make the internet a safer place for individuals and organizations. There are simple and essential steps you can take to minimize potential damage. Whether you’re a retiree, a college student, a doctor, a system administrator or a security engineer, NCSAM is a great opportunity to get back to basics. You already know that cybersecurity must be a year-round focus. But use this October to focus on the little things you can do to make your workplace more secure.

Read more

New to IBM Business Process Manager? Bookmark this List of Common Abbreviations!

You know how whenever you start something new you have to hang out for a bit until you figure out what all the abbreviations and acronyms mean? It’s like terminology purgatory. So if you’re new to IBM BPM, take a skim through this list of common abbreviations or bookmark it so you can refer back.

Read more

From Angry Birds to Coke: Top 5 Sessions at IBM Enterprise 2014

Since Global Knowledge became an IBM Global Training Provider and launched their IBM training practice last year, I’ve been to a total of 10 IBM shows (both hardware and software). It sounds like a huge number in such a short time, but it gets even crazier when you add in the fact that Enterprise 2014 will be the first show I’m attending as a full on alumna. Last year’s show was high energy and for the Global Knowledge team it was like returning to our hometown. We had a big presence and we even ran into some former VMware and Red Hat students, which is always awesome.

Read more

I’m Stoked about IBM Connect 2014 Because You (Obviously) Can’t Be a Marketer Anymore without Being a Technologist

As I’m preparing to attend IBM Connect 2014 next week, I’m starting to reflect on the fact that there are still a lot of marketers in the industry who are reluctant to adopt some of the promising new customer experience and social business technologies.

Read more

Serena Williams Talks Preparedness (Which is Really Just Another Word for Training) at IOD 2013

I’m typically not the kind of girl who gets starstruck, and I’m usually not susceptible to motivational speaking. I’m a marketer… rhetoric is what we do. ☺ But I have to say, hearing Serena Williams speak last week in the last general session of IBM’s Information on Demand (IOD) conference kind of made me want […]

Read more