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| - | ==Progress 2007 Week #27==
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| - | Just a quick note to report on what we've done this week.
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| - | We've created a wiki on an external site at http://editthis.info/lauraibm/Main_Page to give Laura a safe environment to develop a wiki and her wiki skills from scratch. The site is secured so that no-one can view any pages without the username and password ( ukisa and bedfont respectively). Once we're confident that the organisation of the wiki is fairly stable, we'll bring it in-house and probably abandon the external site.
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| - | So far Laura has been copying across the text of the environment-related Web pages of our main competitors. Next week I'll ask her to add a few Indian vendors, as it's possible that environmental concerns may be a differentiator between western and Indian vendors.
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| - | So far, the work has been done entirely on open source / freebie software and websites, which means that Laura is acquiring skills that she can use after she leaves IBM. Specifically this week, she has learnt:
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| - | *How to create a wiki-based Website from scratch, and | + | |
| - | *Various image-processing skills—cropping, reducing and converting to JPG. | + | |
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| - | I believe that this environmental material is worth keeping in one place, and Laura could possibly develop a niche reputation as the department's 'ecologist'. (Her A-levels in geography and biology should help.) There could be a useful paper to be written on the topic, e.g.
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| - | *Do different types of vendors put different levels of effort into environmental issues? (e.g. hardware vs. services vendors) | + | |
| - | *Do the Indian vendors do comparatively little? | + | |
| - | *What does each vendor do in the UK? (i.e. are some trying to claim that what they do in say, Texas, gives them environmental credit which somehow benefits the UK?) | + | |
| - | *What do the analyst firms say?
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| - | *What do customers and the markets want?
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| - | *Threats: is it possible that the IT industry may come under the same level of attack as the aviation industry has experienced? How should we prepare for this?
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