Real-World Information Technology Blog

17 December 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

The newly designed and updated Center for Digital Education website was launched today by the eRepublic technology team – www.centerdigitaled.com: Centerdigitaled.com provides a sales and marketing web presence for the Center for Digital Education – a premier resource on…

14 November 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

During my tenure at eRepublic, my tech team and I have dramatically upgraded the company’s web presence across all 8 corporate websites including two SaaS products. Web revenue and lead generation are helping to drive the company’s expansion. As…

08 October 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

In my previous post, I emphasized the importance keeping the senior executives well-informed on the status of IT projects and issues. If this is not done or done poorly then the woes of the IT department expand exponentially due…

14 August 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

Like many IT executives, I have heard and experienced the derision from end-users and executives regarding the inefficiencies and delays in the IT department. This can degenerate into the IT dept vs the rest-of-the-company and brings to mind the…

07 August 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

Any IT director is constantly challenged with building castles in the sky while keeping all existing systems operational. At the chief executive level, those castles may seem little more than sand castles on the beach but more likely than…

31 July 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

A new website dedicated to Emergency Management was launched today by eRepublic – www.emergencymgmt.com: The entire project completed from start to finish in less than four months with all design and development done in-house. This is the third site…

10 July 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

In confronting the complete redesign of our flagship website – Govtech.com – it was decided to embark on developing a proprietary object relational database that is affectionately known as The Node Mesh. A full API and CMS were developed…

08 July 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

Our Web Content Management SaaS provider – Clickability – has won the best WCM CODiE award from SIIA for the last two years running. The decision to adopt Clickability was made based on the strength of their platform for…

06 July 2009
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Written by Tim Blair White

The Software as a Service or SaaS model is gaining ground in many IT strategic planning sessions for the following reasons: A good SaaS partnership will offload the necessity to build and maintain an IT infrastructure to support the…