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No matter how you parse it- It's a free agent nation

Documentum blogger Pie wrote a post entitled Documentum and ECM:A Career or a Job?,  which I found rather interesting. If he had written his entry in the 1970's, (when few, if any, of us were part of the workforce) I might have been in full agreement; but the world has changed quite a bit since then. The days when a single employer has a life-long or, even long-term, career to offer an individual are gone, gone, gone....

Why? Because the nature of business has changed. Employee payrolls are the major expense in a service economy and guess what happens when revenues fall? Jobs get cut in order to preserve a healthy bottom line. CEO's have to report to their shareholders.

CIA uses enterprise 2.0 to get the scoop

While many companies are cautiously waiting before integrating Enterprise 2.0 technologies with their most important content, guess who's already there? The CIA of all places. It's not quite the organization that comes to mind when I think  of Information Technology trailblazers. And I certainly didn't expect to learn about it on the Cranky Geeks podcast, but that's where I got an inkling of the news.