The latest IT Tech Trends Survey is now open. We’re looking to hear what you feel are the major drivers and motivators in the tech industry right now. This year we’ve devoted a considerable chunk of the survey to investigating business analytics – its role…

OK, so I dropped the spoiler in the title. Mind you, you could argue that this is hardly surprising given the importance of…

Even though I wasn’t at Lotusphere this year, I did get a sneak peak at Stacy Pschenica’s presentation on the value of the developerWorks community: to members, partners and thankfully (given …

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Frank Carlos, a grassroots marketing expert on the IBM developerWorks team. Among his many accomplishments has been the development of the @developerWorks Twitter profile which has amassed a princely 33,000 followers. In my mind, this makes Frank something close to the Ashton Kutcher of the B2B [...]

If you’ve ever had a problem losing a blog post to an errant web-based WYSIWYG editor, or have struggled cutting and pasting from an MS Word document into a blog post, then you might want to take Windows Live Writer for a spin.   This small Windows desktop client plays nicely with all the major [...]

I’d venture to say the hard part in blogging is coming up with good ideas and finding the time to turn them into attractive blog posts. However, that final stage of laying the post out in your blogging platform can add some friction to the process. Most…

Fellow IBMer

Fellow IBMer Kevin Czap recently took the position of the community manager for the developerWorks Cloud Computing Central group. DeveloperWorks is IBM’s central external resource for developers and IT professionals and Kevin defined his role as follows: The Community Managers act as an advocate for the Community. They are the eyes and ears of their [...]