[TechRepublic] The clients who give consulting a bad name

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The clients who give consulting a bad name Chip Camden describes caricatures of bad clients he's experienced in the wild. See if you recognize any of these types of clients from your consulting work. Read more Resource of the day The Best Places to Live are Going Google Westerville, Ohio is nationally recognized as one of "America's Best Places to Live" by Money Magazine and now has an email system to match. Find out how the city selected Google Apps and how it's going since making the transition. Additional TechRepublic resources   Avoid getting buried in technical debt Ward Cunningham wrote in 1992 that shipping first-time code is like going into technical debt. Contributor Chip Camden explains that the usefulness of the technical debt metaphor is awareness. Read more Don't doom a project to meet a deadline In project management, it's sometimes more critical to ensure that you're successful in your launch than it is to meet your original deadline. Read more Five reasons to migrate to Microsoft Project 2010 Microsoft Project 2010 comes with new features that are a welcome relief to the Microsoft Project learning curve. Here are five reasons to switch to Microsoft Project Professional 2010. Read more Pop Quiz: Computer Ports and Connectors Do you know the difference between the shape of an Ethernet, eSATA, and USB port? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge of external computer ports. Read more Five simple tips for increasing your Facebook fan base Your Facebook fan page provides a great vehicle for building your business and extending your reach. Here are a few ways you can get more fans on board. Read more Featured multimedia   Photos: The 10 hottest tablets coming in 2011 There are an obscene number of new tablets coming to market in 2011. Plenty of them are safe to ignore. Here are 10 that are worth anticipating. View on site Android 3.0 Honeycomb: 35+ screenshots Google has officially released its SDK for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, while also revealing some more information and a few screenshots. Here are all 9 screenshots that Google released, plus 29 more that we captured by poking around in the Honeycomb emulator in the SDK. View on site Slideshow: Take ownership of files and folders in Windows In this Quick Tip, Mark Kaelin shows you how to take ownership of a file or folder in Microsoft Windows 7. View on site Screenshots: New features from LibreOffice 3.3 The Document Foundations debuts its first full, stable (and free) release of the next generation of OpenOffice - LibreOffice 3.3. View on site Project Management Resource Kit   TechRepublic's Project Management Resource Kit features 70+ tips from experienced PMs about Agile PM, how to get the most out of Microsoft Project 2007, and more. Purchase the download today! Today's recommended downloads Cost-Effective Native Replication for Enhanced Disaster Recovery from IBM ProtecTIER (IBM) Moving Mission-Critical Applications Into the Virtual World (VMware) Save Money and Increase Collaboration with Google Apps (Google) Address All Your Information Archiving and Retention Needs with IBM's Solution (IBM) Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.) New Nudgemail feature lets you email appointments into your calendar NudgeMail is a great little service that lets you alert yourself to important tasks via email. A new feature extends this capability so that you can mail appointments directly into your calendar. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight CES 2011 coverage on TechRepublic CES 2011: The biggest winners and losers Breakthrough device of CES: Motorola Atrix = Phone + PC HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon LTE 4G ioSafe external drive takes shotgun blast and keeps working How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011 More CES 2011 blogs and galleries

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