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David Williams

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  • Freelance Technology Journalist, Freelance
  • Freelance Enterprise Technology Editor, iTWire
New South Wales
As seen in: iTWire, Medium, Oracle, ZDNet, British GQ, The Health Pulse, The Tennessean, City A.M., EIN News, Greensboro News & Record, Roanoke Times and
Covers:  Enterprise technology, software development, databases, cloud computing, data, analytics, AI, ML, smartphones, tablets, servers
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David Williams’s Biography

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David has been computing since 1984 where he instantly gravitated to the family Commodore 64. He completed a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from 1990 to 1992, commencing full-time employment as a systems analyst at the end of that year. Within two years, he returned to his alma mater, the University of Newcastle, as a UNIX systems manager. This was a crucial time for UNIX at the University with the advent of the World-Wide-Web and the decline of VMS. David moved on to a brief stint in cons…

David Williams’s Journalist Portfolio

This International Women's Day, make the choice to challenge

This International Women's Day, make the choice to challenge

While Australian Government figures show women make up half the private sector workforce, they make only a th…

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What the Three Amigos teach us about service delivery

What the Three Amigos teach us about service delivery

I've run internal IT teams, hired outsourcing companies, and consulted to others. With years of experience un…

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A CxO guide to the cloud

A CxO guide to the cloud

"The cloud" is the buzzword of the modern day. Companies are told they must "get on the cloud", while the dee…

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Why is Telstra customer service fundamentally broken?

Why is Telstra customer service fundamentally broken?

You'd think an organisation the size of Telstra should have well-oiled processes. Yet, my experience shows yo…

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Lessons for a new IT Manager

Lessons for a new IT Manager

It is not uncommon for strong technical folk to find themselves accidentally become a manager. Here is my gui…

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Articles

The Kensington SmartFit EQ Adjustable Multi-Angle Laptop Stand is small accessory that makes a big difference

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By David Williams
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For all the remarkable advances in laptop technology over the past two decades, one problem stubbornly remains. They're terrible to work on, ergonomically, with a necessary compromise between wrist, eye, and neck comfort. Kensington's multi-angle laptop stand helps make a difference. Today's notebooks are thinner, lighter and more powerful than ever before, but from an ergonomic perspective, almost every laptop suffers from the same unavoidable design compromise.
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D-Link launches two new 5G Wi-Fi 6 mobile hotspots giving fast, reliable Internet wherever you are

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By David Williams
| iTWire Verified
D-Link has released two new 5G Wi-Fi 6 personal hotspots letting you connect, stream, and do whatever you need online no matter if you're at home, working at a cafe, fixing an urgent server problem on the side of the road, living your best life as a grey nomad, or even simply being a cord-cutter who doesn't want a fixed-line Internet service. The two new units are the DBR-330-G 5G AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 Mobile Hotspot and the F518 5G Wi‑Fi 6 AX1800 Mobile Hotspot.
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Everything I really needed to know about leadership I learned in World of Warcraft

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By David Williams
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For years, people dismissed video games as a waste of time. Parents complained they were a distraction. Employers worried they were a sign of poor work ethic. Politicians occasionally blamed them for society's ills. Meanwhile, millions of people were quietly receiving one of the best practical educations in leadership, teamwork, logistics and project management ever devised. No lectures. No PowerPoint.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first published story was on natural language parsing (as we call it now) for the Commodore 64 computer.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I used a typewriter during the 1980s and part of the 1990s.

How is social media changing news?

It accelerates the time for the news to be known, along with multiple confirming accounts and supporting videos.

Awards

SolarWinds IT Mentor of the Year

2021 - Mentorship
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