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Motivation As A Tech Professional
Added 483 Views / 0 LikesThe question about how to stay motivated as a tech professional comes up a surprising amount. For those of us that have found our niche it seems like an odd question, but for many the lack of motivation causes real harm to their career.
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Silicon Trailer: West Yellowstone - Montana (August 26 - Sept 9)
Added 553 Views / 0 LikesSilicon Trailer comes to Yellowstone for 2 weeks! If you would like to have a sit down meting where we discuss your real world issues please just email me at Eli at EliTheComputerGuy.com The facility we are staying at offers not just RV Camping, but Tent
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Small City Opportunities For Tech Professionals
Added 458 Views / 0 LikesSome days it seems as if every town in the United States that is big enough to have a gas station has plans to become the next "Silicon Valley". Money and Resources are being poured into these places in the name of economic development. What is missed, an
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Setting Boundaries As A Tech Professionals
Added 459 Views / 0 LikesEvery human has their own unique boundaries that they feel the most comfortable in. The more you respect you own boundaries and let people know they exist the easier your career in tech will be. Beyond simply setting basic boundaries you should also think
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Personalized Communication For Tech Professionals
Added 567 Views / 0 LikesHave you sent out 1000 resumes and not received a single response? Do you "stay in touch" with important peers by sending email blasts with a "personal" touch and yet no one ever gets back to you? Maybe it's because everyone hates spam, and by spamming th
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Regional Personality For Tech Professionals
Added 491 Views / 0 LikesTo succeed in your tech career or venture you need the support of those around you. None of us become successful by ourselves. The mentality of the people in your region of the world will make a dramatic difference on your abilities.
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Silicon Trailer/ Camp: Rapid City, SD (Aug 11 - 25)
Added 526 Views / 0 LikesSilicon Trailer comes to Rapid City South Dakota! (More accurately Custer, SD). Not only are we doing the same meetings that people have been driving up to 4 hours one way for, but we're also beta testing GEEK CAMP!!! We'll be in Custer for 2 solid weeks
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Taking
Added 449 Views / 0 LikesCharity is supposed to be a way show compassion and lend a hand to those who come on hard times, and yet in the modern world it has come to be seen as an insult and slap in the face. Oddly most "charity" really isn't a hand out and rather it's a payout on
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The Value Of
Added 392 Views / 0 LikesIn the rush to become "successful" too many technology professionals try to turn every stupid idea they have into a startup or business. The reality is that most of your ideas simply won't work, and many times it's because you end up not wanting to do the
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Y Combinator Needs To Teach Better Business Communication Skills
Added 396 Views / 0 LikesJust because you think you have the next "Twitch.tv" doesn't mean you can go without a decent sales pitch. I discuss a very odd exchange with a Y Combinator founder looking for me to add content to their platform. Instead of offering anything remarkable o
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Geek Camp - Coming Soon'ish
Added 379 Views / 0 LikesThe Silicon Trailer has been a surprising success. When I originally had the idea of meeting viewers with tech problems while traveling I figured one or two people per month would take me up on the offer. Instead every place I go people are willing to tra
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Job Satisfaction As A Tech Professional
Added 439 Views / 0 LikesJob Satisfaction is one of those concepts that most people only pay lip service to. Being disgruntled may not make people happy, but in most professions realistically you can move ahead without much thought to inner fulfillment and happiness. In the tech
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Start Your Tech Career At An Apple Store
Added 432 Views / 0 Likes10 years ago I would have told anyone interested in pursuing a tech career to stay away from Apple Stores or other Tech Retail establishments. Things have changed dramatically though and the technology that is being sold in these places is the same used i
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Rejection For Tech Professionals
Added 453 Views / 0 LikesYou always hear that you'll only get one, "Yes" for every hundred people you try to sell to. People focus on success, but generally avoid talking about the rejection. For every success you'll get ninety nine rejections that will range from simple dismissa
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Silicon Trailer: Saranac Lake NY (July 17 - August 1)
Added 509 Views / 0 LikesSilicon Trailer pulls into Saranac Lake NY for a bit over 2 weeks! If you need advice or have questions about your tech career I'm more than happy to sit down with you for an hour or more and give you feed back. Please remember to treat this as a friendly
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Punctuality For Tech Professionals
Added 346 Views / 0 LikesThe simplest of social skills prefer more important than new people in technology realize. Showing up on time for appointments is not simply a nicety, but rather a vital skill. Punctuality will help or hinder your tech career in ways that you may not even
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Silicon Trailer: Buffalo NY (August 2 - 6)
Added 457 Views / 0 LikesSilicon Trailer is coming to Buffalo NY and this will be the last East Coast stop for a very long time. If you'd like to set up a meeting email Eli [at] EliTheComputerGuy.com. Please remember to treat this like a business meeting and not a fan meet and gr
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Traction For Technology Professionals
Added 451 Views / 0 Likes"All or nothing" is a stupid concept, and yet it is the mantra many people live by. Incremental, cheap, testing is easy to do and yields far better results.
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Loss And Change As A Technology Professional
Added 489 Views / 0 LikesEverything has a cost... It is innate human reaction to always try to maintain the status quo. The brain prefers to fall into prerecorded routines so that it can save energy. Real thinking is kept to a minimum as a survival mechanism even in an age when f
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Industry Verticals For Technology Professionals
Added 381 Views / 0 LikesThere was a utopian time in the world of IT where everyone, everywhere needed a new PC and all companies were desperate for servers. 99% of the new PC's ran Windows, and 110% of the companies chose Windows Servers for their infrastructure. Whether a compa
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Vetting Deals As A Tech Professional
Added 486 Views / 0 Likes"I'd rather say 'no' to a good deal, than 'yes' to one that craters." There is more to having a successful project than simply abiding by the specific terms of a contract. You can do everything right, go above and beyond what is expected, and yet still ha
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Silicon Trailer: SKYPE Edition
Added 535 Views / 0 LikesSilicon Trailer comes to SKYPE!!! If you want a 30 minute business/ career consultation over Skype email Eli at EliTheComputerGuy.com. These consultations are free, BUT... - These are business meetings and not fan meet and greets. - They are only open to
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Dealing With Cyberbullying For Technology Professionals
Added 426 Views / 0 LikesDo you remember when your parents told you that once you graduated high school it would all get better? They lied... The adult world is a lot like the teenage one only without free rent. How you deal with bullying as an adult will have real consequences f
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Therapy For Technology Professionals
Added 466 Views / 0 LikesWTF is wrong with you? No... Seriously... It is so common for people to make jokes about mental health that it can be easy to overlook the fact that it can be a real problem. Mommy or Daddy issues, abuse, and simple chemical imbalances can have a dramatic
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Self Study For Technology Professionals
Added 391 Views / 0 LikesHere's a GREAT idea. Why don't you use completely free information and lessons off of the internet to gain the knowledge and experience to become a sought after technology professional? The idea of teaching yourself to be a technology professional is a gr
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Haters And Bashing As A Tech Professional
Added 515 Views / 0 LikesWhy do Haters keep Bashing your work to use technology to make the better place? It's obviously not because your idea is actually pretty stupid, and your holier than thou attitude is over the top... Harsh and even brutal criticism is needed in order to tu
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Media Relations For Startups And Tech Events
Added 428 Views / 0 LikesImagine how stupid it would be if companies refused essentially free advertising of their products and events to their prime demographics. That would be assininely stupid... This is what many startups and tech events are doing and they don't even realize
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Back To Baltimore In The Silicon Trailer
Added 474 Views / 0 LikesThe Skype coaching sessions have gone far better than ever expected. I finally have a real business opportunity and I need the resources and tools that are now 3000 miles away.
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Silicon Discourse Starts On December 2nd
Added 428 Views / 0 LikesTomorrow we arrive back in Baltimore and on December 2nd I restart the Skype meetings with viewers. I have created a web platform at SiliconDiscourse.com that allows for messaging, video/audio chat, remote desktop and Mobile/ Desktop apps. Join the conver
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Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Introduction
Added 457 Views / 0 LikesHybrid Cloud Infrastructure is when your local infrastructure and your cloud infrastructure create a seamless network. As an administrator you no longer view cloud and local as unique infrastructure, but rather as a single network map. AWS, MS Azure and V
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Loneliness And Isolation As A Tech Professional
Added 583 Views / 0 LikesSchedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com Being a tech professional can be a lonely job by design. We are out numbered, misunderstood, and almost invisible even when the services we provide are invaluable.
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What To Expect At CES 2016
Added 437 Views / 0 LikesFollow CES 2016 at http://www.youtube.com/elicomputerguylive Schedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com I'm flying off to CES 2016 tomorrow for the rest of the week. Long story short there should be a lot of iterative crap with a coup
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CES 2016 After Thoughts
Added 433 Views / 0 LikesSchedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com After spending a week at CES 2016 I found it to be a surprisingly good experience. Drones and Augmented Reality are finally becoming something to seriously look at, and machine vision is set
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Being An
Added 416 Views / 0 LikesSchedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com The technology profession isn't for the timid. The rarely discussed fact of our jobs is that we destroy the livelihoods of those around us. Being an "asshole" is not something to shy away fro
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What Is A YouTube Subscriber Worth?
Added 667 Views / 0 LikesSchedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com Podcasts of New Videos at SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/elithecomputerguy To Ask Questions Email: Question@EliTheComputerGuy.com For Classes, Class Notes and Blog Posts: http://www.EliTh
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#MakeYouTubeGreatAgain Campaign Advice For Grade A Under A
Added 550 Views / 0 LikesTo make YouTube great again we need to focus on fixable issues with YouTube. ***** Schedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com Podcasts of New Videos at SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/elithecomputerguy To Ask Questions Email: Quest
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I Don't Support #WTFU
Added 410 Views / 0 Likes#WTFU - Where's The Fair Use - Is a YouTube movement I do not support with reason... Nostalgia Critic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI Grade A Under A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Gde-5FRWA Tyrone Magnus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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QoS (Quality Of Service) Introduction
Added 452 Views / 0 LikesWhat is QoS (Quality of Service) -Prioritize Network Traffic -RTMP is given priority over SMTP Why Use QoS (Quality of Service) -Make Sure RTC Has Priority Problem with QoS -Doesn’t Actually Increase Bandwidth -RTC (Real Time Communication) Can Use MASSIV
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Bandwidth Throttling Introduction
Added 484 Views / 0 LikesWhat is Bandwidth Throttling? -Controls the network speed of a device -Can be based by Entire Network, Per Device, or by App/ Protocol -LOTS of Options Why Use Bandwidth Throttling? -Migrating Infrastructure to the Cloud… -Uploading Large Files -Mobile Ba
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YouTube Is Broken (This Is Not Click Bait!!!)
Added 505 Views / 0 LikesOver the past 2 weeks more and more random issues have come up with the YouTube platform that points to some kind of structural flaw vs. a simple bad update. - Users unsubscribed from Channel - No Videos found error in Dashboard of both channels - Can't c
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Being 100% Right, And 100% Fired
Added 399 Views / 0 LikesSchedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com Podcasts of New Videos at SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/elithecomputerguy To Ask Questions Email: Question@EliTheComputerGuy.com For Classes, Class Notes and Blog Posts: http://www.EliTh
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YouTube Apologized And Assigned Me A Partner Manager (Advocate)
Added 449 Views / 0 LikesSpoke with YouTube management and I now have a Partner Manger that will act as an advocate on problems in the future. I always say, "Distrust and Verify, then be Suspicious", but this looks promising...
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YouTube Contact About False Flag
Added 485 Views / 0 LikesMy BEST Content Is Now On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/elithecomputerguy Schedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com So... I received an email on a different Gmail account than the one I received the strike notices on... Apparent
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YouTube Community Strike Was A False Flag
Added 463 Views / 0 LikesMy BEST Content Is Now On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/elithecomputerguy Schedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com Why is it someone else has the ability to talk directly with YT about my situation, and yet I can't?
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How To Beat YouTube Community Strike Appeal Rejection
Added 508 Views / 0 LikesMy BEST Content Is Now On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/elithecomputerguy Schedule a Skype Meeting with Eli: https://silicondiscourse.com At 2am in the morning my Channel mysteriously went back to normal, and the offending video is back to being publ
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Leaving YouTube...
Added 481 Views / 0 LikesYouTube upheld a Community Guideline Strike against a 2.5 year old half assed video that I would have been fine with simply deleting. This means I lost the right for 6 MONTHS to upload long form vids, plus even be able to dispute other infractions. YouTub
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Optical Encryption: Is Your Data Fully Protected?
Added 585 Views / 0 LikesProtecting company and customer data is a core concern of every organization today. Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution provides wire-speed transport-layer optical encryption that is always-on, enabling a highly secure fiber network infrastructure that
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Interview With Enet - Fueling Ireland's Rural Broadband
Added 542 Views / 0 LikesBartley McElroy, sales director for enet, discusses the service provider's recent rural gigabit broadband launch in Ireland and how Calix is supporting their efforts as they aim to participate in the government's initiative to bring broadband to all rural
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RS Fiber - Calix Success Story
Added 537 Views / 0 LikesTo bring fiber to the underserved Renville and Sibley Counties in Minnesota, the RS Fiber Cooperative was formed and has started its broadband service delivery through a partnership with HBC.
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Craig Thomas At FTTH Conference Europe 2016
Added 130.9k Views / 0 LikesCalix Director of International Marketing Craig Thomas discusses the importance of bringing fiber to multi-dwelling unit buildings and highlights the Calix solutions on display at the FTTH Conference Europe show.
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