This article is also the topic of a Podcast on “The Root Cause” available on iTunes.
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IT Career Planning is an area that all IT workers must take seriously. This article and podcast discuss one area of such planning. The difference between Horizontal and Vertical growth in your technical career.

What does it mean to say Vertical or Horizontal in this context? Horizontal Knowledge is to know pure technology while Vertical Knowledge is knowing how your organization uses and deploys technology. In other words, knowing where all the bodies are buried and how your organization has evolved as a technological organism is Vertical. Product knowledge, IEEE specifications, protocols and Best Practices–are Horizontal.

All businesses need to consider at some point in their lifecycle the issue of how to promote themselves to get their message out to potential customers. Maybe it is because they are newly established, there has been a change in ownership, a move of office location, a change to office hours, new partners or associates joining the firm or new products and services have become available. Medical practitioners and medical practices are no different.

A medical practitioner or medical practice is a business regardless of whether it has broader social and charitable aims: it employs staff, rents business premises, and must pay business taxes.

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and it is connected to other technologies that let all IP networks be utilised for certain voice applications; some of these include teleconferencing, telephony and voice instant messaging. VoIP provides a fantastic solution to just about all of the layers that make up an IP network; from those specialised voice applications like Skype right down to those low quality measures that are there to ensure the applications are running as they should be. VoIP is used in many different companies around the world, big or small, as well as in some households, particularly those that run businesses from home.