Julie Byrd

Many studies have shown that IT is a male dominated field. The studies have proven that it is difficult for women to climb the IT corporate ladder. However, it doesn't mean it hasn't been done! Check this out...CISCO CIO - WOMAN! Rebecca Jacoby. But wait there's so many more.....

Toyota - CIO - Barbara Cooper
Allstate - CTO - Catherine Brune
IBM - VP of Buisness Processes - Jeanette Horan
Cardinal Health Systems - Jody Davids
Lockheed Martin - Exec VP of Information Systems - Linda Gooden
Target - CIO - Janet Schalk
Dell, Inc. - CIO Susan Sheskey (recently resigned)
Johnson & Johnson - CIO - LaVerne Council
Sears - CIO - Karen Ausin
Motorola - CIO - Patricia Morrison
Ingram Micro - CIO - Karen Salem

As you can see....women are breaking through the glass ceiling! We just need to continually attract younger women to this field. Check out this site to read more about them....Successful IT Women.

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You sang it didn’t you?
When Guttenberg invented the printing press, why do you think he chose the Bible as the first book to be printed? Maybe it was because it was the most important form of literature to people at that time. How the Bible was actually hand written and preserved before actual printing is very interesting.

Read this “The Pre-Reformation History of the Bible” to understand more about the Bible BEFORE Guttenberg’s printing. What does the Bible teach us about communication? I find many things that help me to better understand my fellow man and how I should treat them. Most of you know the saying “Treat others the way you want to be treated”, this is a Bible verse (Matthew 7:12). I often see people get confused with this saying. They think that how others treat us is how we should treat them. Not true. We need to treat others how WE want to be treated. We need to remember this in all areas of our life, personal and professional. How do you want to be treated? With respect? With truth? With professionalism? With love? Then you need to treat others with respect, you need to tell the truth, you need to be professional, you need to love. It’s simple. The Bible is full of perfect instructions on how we should live as a human being. Let me leave you with one more bible verse:
2 Corinthians 4:17 - 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

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It truly is interesting to see how different uses of the internet rise so quickly and are put to use in various ways. For instance, Youtube is used by a wide range of audiences, from young kids posting a video about tripping over backpacks to people using it to post “how-to’s” for training. Social bookmarking use has also been on the rise.

Social bookmarking is a new way of keeping the web sites that are important to you organized. Yet with this type of bookmarking, it doesn’t restrain you to one computer’s list of Favorites in Internet Explorer. Because the bookmarks and tags are stored on a server, it allows you to continue to bookmark web sites from any computer you are using. With each web site that you choose to store, you can provide descriptive tags. Using tags allow you to access the sites that you have bookmarked by the use of the tag. For instance, if you bookmarked OnlineBible.com, you could use tags such as bible, scripture and Jesus. I could store other Christian web sites and apply the same tags so when I searched my stored web sites using “bible” those sites with that tag would be listed. The other benefit to social bookmarking is that you can allow others to see your list of web sites as well. They can search the sites that you have bookmarked using the tags also. A widely used social bookmarking web site is http://del.icio.us.com. To better understand social bookmarking, follow this link – Understanding Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking has allowed us to stay better organized on the Internet. After all there are 80 billion web sites to review!

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I apologize for the late posting…the problems with the Blog site prevented this from being posted on Thanksgiving Day…here it is anyways!
Our Day to be Thankful…..
Here I am, like many mothers, up before dawn on Thanksgiving Day. Most mothers are stuffing the turkey, peeling potatoes, and getting the stuffing ready. This year, my Thanksgiving is different. I am thankful that my family understands that this year, as a graduate student, all of my spare time is valuable. So, we all decided to wait until tonight to gather together, to watch football and eat snacks! Yes…I will use my Thanksgiving Day to work on homework and projects and be thankful that I am going to graduate in May with an award winning degree from Ball State University. I hope all of my colleagues in this program have many things to be thankful for. I hope our international students are gathering together today so they won’t miss their families back home. I hope most of all that during this holiday season, we all look around us and find a way to help someone in need. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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