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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, Discussion Question: Note to Self, on the site 9 years, 10 months ago
My biggest takeaway, like Dan’s above, has been that companies function as systems, and even more so like organisms. If something is working poorly in one part of a system (i.e. security), it’s not only IT that is to blame, but management for not making security a priority over advertising or operations budgets. In order to make something work…[Read more]
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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, What is Knowledge Management?, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
When you’re building something with Legos, how do you know what to build? The picture on the box shows you the instructions, and your parents probably help you because they’ve built with Legos before. Knowledge management is the set of written instructions/the picture on the box and all the people that know stuff that tells a whole company what to do.
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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, Technology and Manufacturing, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
I was watching a documentary on Netflix about MakerBot last week (http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2014/10/03/netflix-goes-inside-makerbot-original-doc-print-legend/), and it seemed like, at the beginning, that was the case. That this was all about people crowdsourcing designs and really trying to make something custom on their own that could not be…[Read more]
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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, Retail Store Data Breaches, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Fraud is definitely always a cost of doing business, but at the same time, retailers specifically aren’t doing nearly enough. I think the issue is that retail was built as a brick-and-mortar institution since the beginning of retail, and even 20-30 years into the digital era, stores are having to adjust to that.
There are two problems: one is…[Read more]
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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, Discussion Question: Fraud and Safety, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
I was reading some comments on a tech forum recently about Lawrence Lessig’s (famous copyright guy) interview of Edward Snowden (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511918). The first comment talked about how essentially encryption, widely thought to be the safest form of communication if you don’t want to let other people or governments see…[Read more]
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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, Discussion Question: Agents, Publishers, and Self-Publishing Options, on the site 10 years ago
I did self-publish my first book, a Kindle-single legnth humorous essay about my trip to Scotland (http://ebook.vickiboykis.com) a couple years ago through Amazon’s Createspace and wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog post about what I learned doing e-publishing:…[Read more]
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Victoria K Boykis commented on the post, These are a few of my favorite things…, on the site 10 years ago
One of my favorite apps/sites that I’ve discovered over the past couple years has been Pinboard. It was started by someone who noticed the decline of social bookmarking after Yahoo discontinued development of Delicious and sold the company, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without the bookmarks they’ve collected over years and years.…[Read more]