IT Professional Career involves learning, and a major part is delivered on Video.

I found that using iTunes Podcasts is a very convenient way to learn.

You get tons of video lessons, news, how to stuff and more, brought Automatically

to your destop as well as to your iTouch/iPhone.

Here is a list of recent Computing Magazines based channels I picked.

This should save you some time as you listen or watch instead of read

Each one of those will launch your iTunes app.

In some countries (outside USA) the iTunes store will not allow you to

sign up to the podcasts.

However I was told there are solutions in case you do not sign up to a pay for podcast

(and all those podcasts are free):

• itpc://macworldheadlines.libsyn.com/rss – Mac World Headlines
• itpc://rss.macworld.com/macworld/weblogs/mwpodcast – Mac World Podcast
• itpc://www.mevio.com/feeds/pcmagreviews.xml – PC Magazine Reviews
• itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/pcpropodcast PC Pro Magazine Podcast
• itpc://feeds.pcworld.com/pcworld/itunes/audio – PC World Magazine Audio Podcast
• itpc://feeds.pcworld.com/pcworld/itunes PC World Magazine Video Podcast
• itpc://podcasts.scmagazine.com/rss2 – SC Magazine (Security) Podcast
• itpc://leoville.tv/podcasts/ww.xml – Paul Thurrott Windows Weekly Podcast
• Our Podcast (IT MasterMind Podcast with Audio of all our blog posts)

I’d be glad to get your recommendations regarding additional channels for our group.

P.S.

Talking about video, I have been playing with a nice tool that practically removes

the annoying “Buffering” pauses you get, while watching stuff on the major Video

sites, including Youtube of course. It can also speed up the iTunes videos you watch.

Remember “DAP” – Download Acceelerator?

Well the same guys now deliver a Video Accelarator program.

I enjoy it a lot – here is a link to their info

and download page: http://budurl.com/VideoAccelerator

Yours,

Jack.

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Information Technology Career…many times it is about how much information

you can absorb, process, and then spit out a great wisdom in the right moment.

That is why you probably read several magazines, skim through several newsletters,

README docs, listen to web casts, watch the latest Video Course and so on and on.

Do you also feel sometimes like your head is going to explode?

Let me tell you, I am one of those unbelievable guys who listen to Audio

tech stuff on the iPod, as they make salad, wait on traffic jams.

I even convert selected texts (long mails, books, docs) to Audio

just to I can learn faster, and extract Audio from Video so I can

listen without getting hooked to the tube.

If you are an  information technology specialist, you have to master lots of realms.

Even if you “Just” run Linux, you need to learn LDAP, MySQL, Security stuff and so on.

How do you learn so much and still have time to live and focus on the main tasks

at work?

Here are 2 tools I have been using in the past years and can recommend:

1. The Accelerated Learning Techniques By Brian Tracy and Colin Rose

As I used this recording (CDs or MP3 immediate download) I started learning

twice or 3 times faster any new stuff that comes along. I can focus

on the most important items I should learn very quickly, and I can remember

much more – this has actually finally solved my “Can’t remember names” problem.

Let me tell you one of the secrets on remembering names, so you have

an immediate take out: As someone tells you their name, repeat the name

in your mind for at least 6-7 times. As you do that, look at their face

and try to attach to their name, something unique about them

(they always smile, have blue eyes, short haircut, (no hairs in my case )

You will be amazed how quickly you get many more friends as you

finally remember their names!

2. The excellent Text To Audio Program – TextAloud –

(This is the download link). It saves tons of  time

converting too-long-mails to Audio as well as eBooks, memos, web pages.

That way I can listen to it while doing something else, instead of

getting my eyes stuck to the screen, trying furiously to skim mountains of text.

That’s all for today…let me know your best time savers for boosting our

Information Technology Career.

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I think we are a lot a like…

We don’t have a spare minute during our workday and even not afterwards when we’re at home, spending time with our dear ones, taking care of our health, maybe enjoying hobbies on the weekends.

Even so, at all times we want to know more, get ahead of the crowd, learn and prepare ourselves for our next non-trivial assignment…

Our forum here as well as few other leading ones are a place of inspiration.
and assistance as well as contribution.

And then, we don’t have the time to review, read what’s important,
get to the end of a discussion and summarize the bottom line.

I have been thinking about this a lot.

I think I have a solution.

I am considering to launch a companion that will escort you on this journey.

The current idea is based on a weekly AUDIO summary of the best
discussions for IT Pros.

No more than 65 minutes a week (so you can burn it to CD if you like, or put on your MP3 player).

I’d like to have your advise on this one…

Click here to assist

Now, since Linkedin Polls are a $1 for each response, I am putting here
a link to a free survey service and I’d like to ask you to answer two
simple questions there.

Here is the link:

Click here to assist

Yours,

Jack.

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Guess we are all a bit worried those days…hearing and seeing all the recession related news…

I was thinking how we can shine above all this, and help our companies as well

as ourselves to succeed and go through all the challenges…

So I want to share with you several resources I have found.

I’ll mention here the first one.

But I want to share with you first a short story that relates to it.

My boy has just started to become interested in girls…

And he asked me to bring him books about girls in his age.

He wanted to know what interests them, what troubles them and so on.

So I asked, why he’s interested in what girls go through instead about what

happens to boys.

He said “Dad, you told me that the best way to succeed in business is learn

every thing you can about the other person you want to partner with”.

So here is a resource that will help you to get to know your partner

in your workplace…that is your employees and your employee.

Its about knowing what the other person is concerned of and what

methods he uses to measure and grade…”

Go to http://www.smarttopgrading.com/TGO/index.cfm

and sign-up for their fr-ee newsletter as well as the fr-ee eBookand learn how to get

and empower the best employee, as well as how to become a better employee.

• Avoid Costly Mis-Hires A 50-page ebook overview of Topgrading best practices.
• Learn how leading companies achieve 90% good hires
• Know your company’s costs of mis-hires
• Tips to source high performers without running ads or using recruiters
• How to save 15 hours pre-screening candidates
• Learn the most revealing interview questions
• How to get former bosses to talk to you in reference calls
• Cost of Mis-Hire Form, so your team can easily see the high costs of not using Topgrading methods.

Here is the book if you want to buy it. I do recommend.

The free eBook summarizes the book…

Please do comment here in the blog what worries you

and if you want to run our first Master Mind call and

empower each other.

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