The UltraTech Zone

Things have been good and busy this year for me.  Overall, I can’t complain.  :) Since June, I’ve been busy with a new corporate challenge, and it has been fun, exciting and already rewarding. Also, this year, I’ve had the privilege of working with the good folks at Focus.com on a number of intriguing projects.  In many ways, ...

There were some excellent technology releases today.  The two I care about the most are Microsoft Windows 7, and the latest update of XeeSM from Xeequa. I expect Windows 7 to be big, big, big in the next few months, and I’ll be dedicating a solid post before the end of the year to talk about the installations I have done.  32-bit and ...

I recently read an article by Meg Guiseppi entitled, “14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You on Twitter”, and I found that I shared many of her views on what constitutes a good network connection on Twitter. In my case, however, I am a member of multiple social networks, and I don’t use them all in the same manner, so the guidelines that I follow are ...

We live in a society that is different in so many ways from the society that our parents grew up in.  For one thing, we are more globally connected.  Another point is that sales and marketing at a personal level is more critical for long-term career success, whether you are an employee or in business for yourself. The global nature of ...

If you find yourself trying to manage and remember all the social/professional networking sites that you are on, then XeeSM may be for you! I have found it very useful to point people to all of my networks, so that they can connect to me from whichever network they find most comfortable.  It certainly beats trying to remember all the URLs ...

It’s been almost 16 months since my last LinkedIn Feature Request post, and thankfully, the folks at LinkedIn have not been sitting idly by. No, they still haven’t brought back the Personal Plus membership (or a reasonable $5-10/month alternative) to bridge the gap between the free service and the $20+/month offerings.   And I am ...

In 2009, there is no time to complain about how tight and unfair the job market is, or how hard it is to get a resume in the door.  There is no more room for complaining about unqualified people using their personal or family connections to get into job opportunities.  These are all surmountable issues. In the past few weeks, I’ve read ...

Or, as I recently pondered on my Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn and Twitter status updates (via HelloTxt): Andrew wonders whether or not the ubiquity of micro-blogging has diminished our capacity for substantive conversation... Is our reliance on the immediacy of information, and our apparent fascination with providing up-to-the-minute reports ...

Lately, I've been playing various medieval build/conquest games on Facebook and other places.  My favorites are Knighthood and Tribal Wars. (PLEASE NOTE: I am especially interested in getting some vassals in Knighthood, so if you're interested in playing even a little, be sure to visit my kingdom.) I don't know about you, but I don't ...

I haven't posted in a few weeks, but not because I don't have anything to write -- it's because I haven't mastered the art of dividing my time across all needs and wants. Here are a few thoughts that hint of posts to come: I need to write about Strategy, Leadership, and Success, particularly in a corporate context.   I have a number ...

Right now, I belong to a large number of social networks (more on that later).  For the most part, I'm really only active on LinkedIn, but as more people connect to me on Plaxo and Facebook, my profile has been getting some action on those networks as well. As expected, the proliferation of such networks is giving rise consolidation and ...

I recently came across another Professional Networking site called Marzar because of a question and answer session on LinkedIn Answers. Of course, I joined to see if it is worthy of any hype, and so far, I think it has many of the little things which people continue to clamor for on LinkedIn.  Each member has space for blogs and for an ...

The month of February 2008 was a very busy one at LinkedIn, it seems.  A number of improvements and modifications were made to the site, including network upgrades which now show Group Membership changes, a much maligned News function, and a major graphical overhaul of the User Interface. So far, I'm liking the new interface, which takes a ...

I finally had the chance to attend another live networking event of NJ LinkedIn members, similar to the one I attended back in October. If you're in the NY/NJ metro area, and would like to enjoy a casual networking event once a month, then feel free to come out to Livingston, NJ the first Tuesday of every month. A Yahoo! group has been created ...

On Tuesday, I went to a LinkedIn gathering that was put together by some Northern NJ members of LinkedIn.  It was a pretty decent event, and I got to meet some very nice and interesting people.  It was my first such event, and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do more of them -- at least once per quarter, if not once per month. Looking ...