Daniel Margolis Posts

Every box of Girl Scout Cookies tells us, “Selling Girl Scout Cookies helps girls develop five skills that they use throughout their lives.” These skills – goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics – are also the essentials of project management, and certifying them can boost any career.

CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park last week featured Power Talk Unplugged; a free-form session in which attendees drove the discussion.

At the Partner and Vendor Advisory Council meetings at CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting this week, the PAC concluded that being a security expert is like being a weatherman and the VAC found the state of the vendor space strong – with some caveats.

Last week, the Creating IT Futures Foundation, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Lumity hosted a panel discussion, “STEMployment: Addressing Chicago’s Talent Pipeline,” in downtown Chicago, making a case for students starting their tech careers in high school and hearing directly from some enterprising tech interns.

It’s that time of year; when many resolve to make personal improvements that may have eluded them for the past 12 months. But regardless of whether you’re still getting any use out of that new gym membership come spring, now is the perfect time to look into or just start training for one of CompTIA’s IT certifications.

Emmy-award-winning veteran CNN correspondent and anchor turned international communications expert Gina London inspired attendees at the CompTIA Academy Educator and Learning Partner Conference to motivate through passion and shared “Seven Steps to a Successful Negotiation” at ChannelCon.

It’s that time of year; when many resolve to make personal improvements that may have eluded them for the past 12 months. But regardless of whether you’re still getting any use out of that new gym membership come spring, now is the perfect time to look into or even start training for one of CompTIA’s broad range of IT certifications.

A lot of big questions were asked at CompTIA ChannelCon – the association’s yearly event held last week at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix – and a big one was asked and answered in a panel discussion titled Can the Internet of Things be Monetized? The short answer was yes, but the panelists’ takes on this certainly differed.

There was a little friendly competition going on in the Mobility Community meeting at CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif., this week. The meeting featured the “Rumble in the Mobile Jungle” (the community has hosted such a debate twice before, including at ChannelCon last year; click here to read all about it). This rumble was moderated by Ryan Morris with Ryan Morris with Morris Management Partners, who also served as host of the rumb ...

A shift in the IT customer and IT businesses themselves were the themes of two Power Talk sessions held this week at CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego. The theme of the first was “Power Talk: The New IT Decision Maker,” hosted by Carolyn April, director, industry analysis, market research for CompTIA. The four panelists were Paul Cronin, senior vice president and director with Atrion Networking; Leonard DiMiceli, general manager and channel ...