Mmiller2507 on May 16th, 2011

Following seeing a posting by one of the bloggers in the Open Practice Technology Network LinkedIn group, I attended the seminars associated with the CRN Partner Connect show-case in Coventry last week. It seemed more like it was the Partner Correct Conference, as it had all the large players in operating platforms and infrastructure – including Google, HP, [...]

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Administrator on November 16th, 2010

Mike Barwise, a member of 7C Alliance’s Open Practice Technology Network and Group Manager of the Information Governance subgroup, is interested to hear from businesses who may have been seeking answers to questions like these: What’s the most effective way to control staff use of social media at work? How can we best manage corporate [...]

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Administrator on August 1st, 2010

Introduction As a further development of the “open practice” technology networking concept that it has trialled with its group on LinkedIn, and which has attracted a mix of over 400 UK and European IT contractors, contract recruitment agencies as well as businesses interested in IT contractors, the 7C Alliance is now looking to take sharing [...]

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Interested in knowing more about what 7C Alliance members think of the regular 7C Alliance events, the value they have got out of them as well as their observations of the current contracting market? Well, the 7C Alliance Contractor Support Analyst team asked these very questions while doing the first trial of the new contractor [...]

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Administrator on November 26th, 2009

To better understand the needs and status for IT and Telecoms contract work in The Midlands area, 7C Alliance is getting a few IT and Telecoms contractors, small consulting businesses, contractor recruiters and (hopefully) a few end-client contacts from those attending the Oracle User Group (OUG) Conference, together in Birmingham on Tuesday, 1 December. We [...]

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Sbrown1963 on September 23rd, 2009

At the recently held 7C Alliance Job SAW event, I presented a workshop on the Top 5 Challenges in applying for jobs online and the challenges that IT contractors face in getting through to the end-client and to interviews. Presentation background These challenges are from a number of market observations gathered by Matt Miller in [...]

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Administrator on September 14th, 2009

Job Search Analysis Week (Job SAW) is a new concept of event that 7C Alliance piloted on Thursday 10th September 2009 in West London and which, despite short notice to hold it, had full attendance at every workshop presented. It is an event that involves a series of small workshops where presenters are organised to [...]

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