ICT Newsline - 22 August 2012

IITP Newsline	22 August 2012
Your weekly dose of ICT news and views

		This week: Juha Saarinen: Aussie Data Centres Annika Naschitzki: "Banner Blindness" effect on homepage banners Garry Roberton: ICT Trends: Update on the Skills Shortage IITP Mentoring Team: Mentoring places closes soon ICTEvents.co.nz: PMI Project Management Conference ICT around town: All the latest ICT-related events in your area
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Aussie Data Centres by Juha Saarinen, A man of many contributions There seem to be heaps of how data centres opening up across the ditch lately. Rackspace emailed today to say their Erskine Park, Sydney facility is now officially open for instance, and they're not the only ones. CloudFlare opened a facility last month and I've heard of others coming up too; this year, the total number of data centres in Australia will peak at just under 50,000. I've seen figures in studies pointing to data centre spend in Australia hitting something like A$3 billion this year alone. » Continue Reading

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"Banner Blindness" effect on homepage banners by Annika Naschitzki, Optimal Usability As you are probably aware, at Optimal Usability we test a lot of web sites. Quite often we see test subjects overlooking key content or functionality, causing our customers to wonder what's wrong with their designs – or even the test subjects – 'It's there can't you see it?' We hear the term 'banner blindness' referred to quite frequently, and we've often wondered how much this behaviour is specifically related to advertising banners, or how much it applies to homepage sliders, carousels or large homepage content banners and set about finding out! » Continue Reading ICT Trends: Update on the Skills Shortage by Garry Roberton, Senior Lecturer, Wintec An "NZ Part of (Global) IT Skills Shortage Danger" headline in The NZ Herald on 12th July heralded the ministerial keynote at the NetHui internet conference delivered by Steven Joyce, Minister of Economic Development. He acknowledged the (apparent) current worldwide shortage of ICT skills and challenged everyone involved in the industry to evangelise ICT jobs/careers to students and families. But, is there really a global ICT skills shortage? The overall scene is, at times, quite contrary with several recent contradictory headilines/articles, certainly at first glance. Let's look at it in more detail. » Continue Reading Mentoring places closes soon by IITP Mentoring Team We're very pleased to announce the 2012 intake of both Mentors and Mentees for the revised IITP Mentoring Programme across New Zealand. Whether as a mentor or being mentored, now's the time to get involved and help shape your professional future. Mentoring is a critical component of professional development for young and old, experienced and new, and we strongly recommend all members consider getting involved. » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of IITP.
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PMI Project Management Conference by ICTEvents.co.nz The Project Management Institute of New Zealand invites all current and aspiring project managers, leaders, entrepreneurs, academicians, students and anyone with an active interest in project management to register for the 18th PMINZ Conference to be held on 24-26 September, 2012 at the Wellington Convention Centre. » Continue Reading Please see www.ictevents.co.nz for more events in your area

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