Mentorship is about experienced individuals sharing their knowledge and information with other less experienced individuals. It’s an opportunity for a mentee to tap into the vast knowledge that a mentor…

I recently manned the FileMaker booth at the GTEC (Government Technology Exhibition & Conference) tradeshow in Ottawa. I was wearing both a FileMaker and CoreSolutions hat for this event. You…

A recent tribute to Steve Jobs that was posted on the Apple website had a great quote from Wayne Gretzky – “I don’t go to where the puck is, I…

​Professional Development should be self directed Now I am not saying that your managers or employers can’t have a say in the courses or training that you may undertake. Obviously…

I typically fill out questionnaires when they are sent to me just because I know that, as a marketing person, often times I have been waiting for members to fill…

Spreadsheets have been around for a long time and I certainly run the risk of dating myself by referring to my use of VisiCalc or Lotus 123 many moons ago.…

One aspect of IT that appears in almost every project is ‘the workaround’. You know this moment: you have just installed the new Out of the Box software when you…

Recently I was tasked to design and build a new website for one of our products, with the assistance of an in-house developer. Having never built a site of this…

David Allen coined the phrase ‘Getting Things Done’ (commonly called GTD) in a book he wrote by the same name a number of years ago. If you have not read…

Each Christmas season I love the effort we splurge on to connect with friends and family. These are people we talk to on the phone, text, watch on Facebook, LinkedIn,…