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Author Archives: Joe Hertvik
IT Purchasing Math: 8 Ways that Confusion = Profit
There’s a simple equation to keep in mind if you’re not sure you’re getting a fair deal when making a major IT purchase:
Confusion = Profit
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Posted in IT Management, opinion
Tagged it management, IT purchasing, vendor management
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Editing LinkedIn Headlines to Showcase Your Personal Brand
You can edit your LinkedIn headline to add statements, mini-ads, SEO keywords, or other content that showcases your personal brand Continue reading
Posted in LinkedIn and Twitter, Marketing materials
Tagged linkedin edit page, linkedin headline, linkedin SEO
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Hiding LinkedIn Job Hunting Activity from Your Connections
Here’s a quick iip if you’re using LinkedIn for job hunting and you want to hide your LinkedIn job hunting activity from your connections Continue reading
Posted in LinkedIn and Twitter
Tagged linkedin job hunt
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Changing Your Profile Name in LinkedIn (Linkedin Name Changes)
Here are the ins and outs of changing your name on LinkedIn Continue reading
Posted in LinkedIn and Twitter
Tagged LinkedIn Name Change
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Creating a LinkedIn Profile URL That Fits on a Business Card
In less than 500 words, here’s how you create your own (relatively) short customized LinkedIn URL, such as http://www.linkedin.com/in/joehertvik.
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Posted in LinkedIn and Twitter
Tagged Linked Profile URL, linkedin hertvik, LinkedIn user profiles
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LinkedIn: Becoming Anonymous When Viewing Other People’s Profiles
For any number of professional, legal, personal, or other reasons, you may not want other LinkedIn users to know you are viewing their user profiles. Continue reading
Three Ways to Find All Your Current LinkedIn Activity From a Browser Session
How to view your current LinkedIn activity from a Web browser Continue reading
Posted in LinkedIn and Twitter
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Who Moved my Cheese? Lifestyle Book or Horror Story?
I’ve always wondered. Is Who Moved My Cheese a motivational book or a horror story? Continue reading
Posted in Misc, opinion
Tagged horror, who moved my cheese
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Rules & Pitfalls for Personalizing Your LinkedIn Invitations
Personalizing your LinkedIn invites is a surefire way to increase the number of people who accept your LinkedIn invitations. It’s always a good idea to personalize your LI invites with something that will catch the attention of your invitee and give them a reason to take your invite seriously. Continue reading
Posted in LinkedIn and Twitter
Tagged LinkedIn Invitation personalization, LinkedIn invitations
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What Does IT Operations Management Do? (ITOps)
What is IT Operations Management, what does it do, and how can it be managed in an overall IT department? Continue reading
The Animal Farm Rule of Help Desks and Network Management
Running a Help Desk or a Data Center can be confusing in that while you try to treat all customers the same way, there are just some people who need extra-special assistance. You may go all out for your internal and external customers but there are always certain classes of people who you really have to go ALL OUT for. Continue reading
Posted in IT Management, opinion
Tagged animal farm, George Orwell, it management
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Help Desk Management: What is Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Help Desk support?
One of the confusing things about Help Desk management and talking to people about an IT Operations Help Desk, is that people don’t understand what Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Help Desk support is (as well as Level 0 support and Level 4 support, which not everyone talks about). Here’s my quick primer on what each of these functions do. Continue reading
First You Get Good, Then You Get Fast: Thoughts to Live By for Blog Production
Three contradictory ideas that can help the average blogger in putting out a quality blog or publication. Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Publishing, books, Misc
Tagged cerebus the aardvark, dave sim, quality in blogging
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IT Jungle: Restoring IBM i Passwords & Private Authorities When Using RSTUSRPRF
Here’s how to restore IBM i passwords & private authorities when using RSTUSRPRF Continue reading
Posted in IBM i general, IBM i Tools
Tagged IBM i passwords, IBM i user profiles, RSTUSRPRF
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Using Google Search to Search Only One Web Site
Here’s how to use Google Search to search for a specific term on a single Web Site Continue reading →
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