Comments on: Tough Love http://www.todayicried.com/it/2006/06/tough-love.html Non-profit IT is technical social work Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:15:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ian Wilker http://www.todayicried.com/it/2006/06/tough-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-9 Ian Wilker Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:03:00 +0000 http://www.todayicried.com/it/2006/06/tough-love.html#comment-9 I'm a former English major, not an IT manager. But I've become the social-media evangelist within my org, and increasingly I've been focused on -- and frustrated with -- my org's IT dept. <br/><br/>Re your post on out-of-control email inboxes: Maybe someday I'll become a GTD star who keeps the inbox clean, but right now I'm losing motivation because Google Desktop -- which our IT dept forbids us to use, a rule I ignore -- allows me to find that needle in the 5K messages I have in about 2 seconds. <br/><br/>What, really, is wrong with that? Isn't there some way for IT managers to let staff use all these great web services (IM, for one) without leaving the enterprise internal network completely defenseless? I’m a former English major, not an IT manager. But I’ve become the social-media evangelist within my org, and increasingly I’ve been focused on — and frustrated with — my org’s IT dept.

Re your post on out-of-control email inboxes: Maybe someday I’ll become a GTD star who keeps the inbox clean, but right now I’m losing motivation because Google Desktop — which our IT dept forbids us to use, a rule I ignore — allows me to find that needle in the 5K messages I have in about 2 seconds.

What, really, is wrong with that? Isn’t there some way for IT managers to let staff use all these great web services (IM, for one) without leaving the enterprise internal network completely defenseless?

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