Computing Canada to produce information technology supplement
A partnership has been struck between Computing Canada magazine and the Canadian information Processing Society (CIPS), which will see the Society's magazine, CIPS Across Canada discontinued in favour of a bi-monthly supplement to Computing Canada. This, according to a story in IT Business.ca, the website of Computing Canada and its related publications. Computing Canada is published bi-weekly by the IT Business Group of Transcontinental Media.
The new supplement, to start with the issue of September 15, will be called The Professional and will reflect the new realities of the IT world, according to CIPS president John Boufford. The market is changing and so must the way the Society communicates. For instance, practitioners are joining IT from different work backgrounds, creating a new richness in the field, but also creating new definitions of what it means to be an IT professional, he said. “We have now opened the door to people that don’t have the traditional IT education that we required in the past,” said Boufford. “We’ve tailored applications for certain parts of the profession in a way that allows them to focus on things that are most relevant to them.”
Martin Slofstra, the editor of Computing Canada, said: “IT professionals are too focused on technology. They need to round out skills like improving their relationship with business users. They need to be more well rounded and look beyond just having just specific technical skills. They need to look at being much more a part of the profession. Certification is one aspect of that.”
Articles appearing in The Professional will be written by Computing Canada staff members, as well as CIPS members. The first installment will focus on risk management.
The new supplement, to start with the issue of September 15, will be called The Professional and will reflect the new realities of the IT world, according to CIPS president John Boufford. The market is changing and so must the way the Society communicates. For instance, practitioners are joining IT from different work backgrounds, creating a new richness in the field, but also creating new definitions of what it means to be an IT professional, he said. “We have now opened the door to people that don’t have the traditional IT education that we required in the past,” said Boufford. “We’ve tailored applications for certain parts of the profession in a way that allows them to focus on things that are most relevant to them.”
Martin Slofstra, the editor of Computing Canada, said: “IT professionals are too focused on technology. They need to round out skills like improving their relationship with business users. They need to be more well rounded and look beyond just having just specific technical skills. They need to look at being much more a part of the profession. Certification is one aspect of that.”
Articles appearing in The Professional will be written by Computing Canada staff members, as well as CIPS members. The first installment will focus on risk management.
“It really is a joint effort,” said Computing Canada publisher Joe Tersigni of the new supplement. “We believe that one of Computing Canada’s roles is to help grow the community. That’s one of the things that a good industry publication should do. We felt that was something we could achieve by helping CIPS put this out.”
The CIPS members who don’t already receive Computing Canada will be added to the subscription list, which is already distributed to approximately 40,000 IT managers and decision-makers across the nation
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