by Steve Earle | Jul 27, 2015 | Events
The CRC – Child Rescue Coalition – will hold its August briefing in Boca on August 3 and Miami August 24.
The Child Rescue Coalition is seeking high-performing technologists and entrepreneurs to join our team of Advisors.
We will have prosecutors and members of law enforcement present in addition to CRC staff. For RSVP’s, please confirm your full name so we may clear you through security ahead of time.
If you would like to attend either date, please contact Colleen Lockwood
More information about CRC here.
Download overview: CRC-Overview-July-15-2015
by Steve Earle | Jul 20, 2015 | Newsletters
With so much of our data and applications residing in the cloud, it’s easy to overlook essential data that lives either in our local servers and PCs or in other locations we never consider.
Most in the IT world recognize the need for a backup strategy that embraces the local environment, but many forget that a corporate website, while ostensibly hosted in the ‘cloud’, is not necessarily backed up by the hosting provider.
Many providers have backup mechanisms that while capturing the raw data of your site, do a poor job of making site restoration easy. In addition, a backup stored in your hosting platform could prove useless if you no longer have access to the platform.
To facilitate one-click restoration of a corporate website, it is likely you will need a premium real-time cloud backup service. These services are relatively inexpensive when compared to the cost of loosing your site.
by Steve Earle | Jul 20, 2015 | Job Opportunities, Uncategorized
Leading retail & e-commerce company HQ’d in Ft Lauderdale is seeking a Sr Web Developer ( HTML5, CSS, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Javascript, JQuery, XML, JSON, AJAX) to develop public facing digital presence.
You will work in an Agile environment to define requirements and design and develop the solution based on user stories. Must have deep technical knowledge of ecommerce web development on an enterprise CMS platform with dynamic and modern UI experience. Be part of a team to deliver a best of class transactional retail and marketing site.
SherlockTalent loves to share our $500 referral fee. This is a temp to perm position. Approx 3-6 months on contract side
by Steve Earle | Jul 20, 2015 | Events
Deadline: August 28, 2015.
South Florida Business Journal is pleased to 2015 CIO Awards presented by Steven Douglas Associates. The CIO Awards honors chief information officers who lead their organizations in delivering business value and innovative use of IT in the private company sector and the public company sector.
Download the Official Application (DOCX): 2015 CIO Awards Official Application due August 28
Download the Overview (PDF): 2015 CIO Awards Nomination Overview
Eligibility Requirements
2015 CIO AWARDS
South Florida Business Journal is pleased to 2015 CIO Awards presented by Steven Douglas Associates.
The CIO Awards honors chief information officers who lead their organizations in delivering business value and innovative use of IT in the private company sector and the public company sector. The awards will recognize South Florida-based CIOs who have demonstrated these key characteristics:
• Ability to work productively with business partners
• Alignment of technology direction with the company’s strategy
• Innovation either internally or in the form of new products or services
• Growth in their information technology team
• Demonstration of strong leadership
• Involvement in their community
In addition to the public company and private company categories, one CIO Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented.
Eligibility requirements: Â All candidates should perform the top technology executive role at their company, regardless of their title (ie: CIO, CTO, VP of Information Technology, etc.)Â Â The company must have a minimum of 10 employees and be in business for a minimum of two full years.
Applications for consideration are being accepted through August 28, 2015.
To nominate please download the application HERE
Please, only one application per CIO. A complete application must be received in order to be considered for this awards program and all advisory panel decisions are final.
Finalists will be notified via formal letter and email from South Florida Business in early September.  Awards cocktail reception and program will be held on Thursday, October 15 in Fort Lauderdale.
The 2015 CIO Awards are presented by Steven Douglas Associates and are sponsored by Comcast Business and the CIO Council.Â
For more information on the CIO Awards program, please contact Maureen D’Silva at mdsilva@bizjournals.com or 954-949-7522.
by Steve Earle | Jul 13, 2015 | Newsletters
Like Cat-Nip to investors.
Our region is fast becoming a hot-bed of innovation and start-up – which is a good thing. On the plus side it brings investments, job opportunity and economic growth. But just because you have a great idea, and even if you have funding to develop and market your product, doesn’t mean it will be plain sailing.
Let’s say your idea is not only brilliant but also disruptive – yes, disruptive – meaning it’s likely to cause a paradigm shift in the market. This is the holy-grail of start-ups and Cat-Nip to investors.
Stormy seas ahead.
But even then, there could well be stormy seas ahead. Sometimes regulation and legislation can get in the way of progress. The most recent technology to fall foul of the regulators is ride sharing, long suffering from regional anxiety, popular ride-share pioneers Uber have finally been pushed out by our neighbors Broward County. The county recently rules that Uber (and competitor Lyft) could legally operat in Broward but under stringent regulation which Uber fels are not in the interest of its drivers. Lyft also announced that it too will leave Broward.
A network disrupted.
Uber and Lyft have built a network of convenience that gives consumers a choice about how they get from A to B – something so simple and yet we give it little thought. Broward residents now have one less choice.
Read the Sun Sentinel article
