Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. This equally applies to technology. Working with emerging technology like generative AI entails a high degree of uncertainty , and thus requires a different approach from the implementation of well-defined programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

and other technologies such as Second Life follows a well established pattern identified by Gartner analysts called " hype cycles " The description is below and this visual showing the hype cycle for consumer technologies. Consequently, the press usually abandons the topic and the technology.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Organizations are becoming cyborgs or integrated with and inextricable from, the technology that keeps them operating. Blogs, social media, and the mainstream press are on fire with the breaking news. It’s a component of most emerging technologies. Gartner offers this explanation. “A First, pay attention.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. This is technology for good news from India. Strange News.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

bring your own device) movement has been a staple topic in the IT press, and it is commonplace for us to use our own mobile phones and tablets for work related activities. Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

During those two years, not only has the used computer market been in question, but also there has been major buzz in the IT press about whether or not we're entering a “post PC” era. Another Gartner study found that export tariffs and high transportation costs tend to restrict secondary PC markets.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Gartner “the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company” issued a press release around the results of a worldwide survey of CIO’s in the commercial sector. The survey identified cloud computing as the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011. Author: Tad Druart.

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