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It’s IT Pro Day! It's the time of year we all get together to recognize the hard work IT Pros do all year round. So, let’s gather ‘round the warmth of the server room and share stories of bravery in the face of angry end users, feats of impressive networking skill, cyber defense heroism, and other harrowing IT stories.…
The IT professional is the unsung hero of today’s modern business, and the global pandemic has elevated IT pros as essential workers—working behind the scenes keeping global organizations performing and our lives running smoothly, all while managing the challenges of remote work and increased burdens on IT environments.…
The other day, I was talking with my dad and told him IT Pro Day was coming up, and that I needed to write something about it. "Why is it IT PRO Day?" he asked, "Why not just ‘IT People Day’ or ‘IT Enthusiasts Day’? Why leave out all those aspiring amateurs?" My dad was trolling me using my own arguments from a debate we…
There should always be opportunities to laud our peers’ achievements and good work. One of the things I’ve noticed (at least here in America) is we tend to speak up about negative things and more quietly acknowledge the good. I want us to get better at publicly celebrating the success of our peers. IT Pro Day is nearly…
The theme for IT Pro Day 2020 is “You Were Built for This” and, while we knew it could be relevant in almost any minute of any day of any year, it seems exceptionally, especially apropos now. We, who make our lives and earn our livelihood in tech, find ourselves the most well-suited, and the most prepared, and (we hope)…
Perhaps the best part of being an IT pro—of being a technology professional in general—is that you don’t really have a choice. It’s an irrepressible self-nomination to a task force of incredibles, who prefer to wield their powers out of sight, but hope the results change the world for the better. And when you rise to the…
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