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13 June 2011 at 13 : 40 PM
Start the Week #15: words of management wisdom
Last week was a varied one. We had words of management wisdom from General Motors, whether or not English is required to work in IT in Brazil, and social media and transparency from the Gov2.0 conference, but we missed out on writing about the Gartner outsourcing summit because their hopeless PR agency decided they would not tell us any of the speaker ...
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9 June 2011 at 15 : 46 PM
BrasilGov2.0: Can IT force honesty in politics?
Erik Camarano is the executive director of Movimento Brasil Competitivo (MBC), a non-governmental organization focused on encouraging and promoting the development of Brazilian society by improving the competitiveness of national economy. He is an economist, academic and former secretary-general in the Rio Grande do Sul state government. ...
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7 June 2011 at 16 : 41 PM
Hfs Research webinar features Brazil
Last week, Mark Hillary from IT Decisions participated in a webinar focused on outsourcing in Latin America hosted by the sourcing analyst firm, Hfs Research. ...
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3 June 2011 at 14 : 50 PM
Going viral in Brazil with video
Matt Smith co-founded The Viral Factory back in 2001, a digital marketing and media company based in London and best known for their award-winning viral videos. He now heads strategy for the firm and was recently in Brazil, exploring the market for viral video in Latin America. ...
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3 June 2011 at 12 : 01 PM
What Brazilian CIOs must know about social media
Business speaker and writer Guy Clapperton spoke to IT Decisions about how companies can benefit from social media and how CIOs in Brazil need to manage this brave new world of information. ...
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2 June 2011 at 15 : 24 PM
Do Brazil stores compete with their own websites?
Patricia Timoner McManus is the Brazil and LatAm representative of GrowVC, a Finnish/English crowdsourcing tool that offers the opportunity for individuals to invest in the venture capital market. ...
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31 May 2011 at 10 : 53 AM
Taking a vacation in bits
IT industry geeks the world over rejoiced when John Graham-Cumming published his book The Geek Atlas in 2009, a travel guide that brings to life a myriad of places where science, technology, and mathematics is (or was) happening. Next week, the book will be published in Portuguese in Brazil. ...
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30 May 2011 at 15 : 26 PM
Wanted: more corporate creativity
Irene Tobón Restrepo is a Colombian documentary film-maker, now based in São Paulo. She has worked on various corporate social media programs, including the Web 2.0 transition of newspaper Robledo somos todos and a research campaign that attempted to make potatoes 'cool' for the international potato center in Lima, Peru. ...
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23 May 2011 at 13 : 07 PM
The nearshore advantage for Brazil
David Kinnear is the New York-based co-founder of international outsourcing community GSSOCX. Earlier today he interviewed Mark Hillary, CEO of IT Decisions, and focused on the nearshore outsourcing advantages for Brazil. ...
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18 May 2011 at 18 : 00 PM
Comment: Outsourcing commission
Earlier today, Angelica Mari exclusively spoke to Laércio Oliveira, the Brazilian congressman pushing ahead with plans to launch a new outsourcing commission. ...
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