IT Rhetorics

  (gif from: giphy.com) Have you ever experienced searching for gadgets, appliances or clothes on Google, then when you open Facebook the advertisements presented to you are the very items you searched seconds ago. This phenomenon is called targeted advertising. Targeted advertising is a form of online advertising that focuses on the specific traits, interests, and preferences of a consumer. Advertisers discover this information by tracking your activity on the Internet. (GFC Global, n.d.) (gif from: giphy.com) Data mining is one of the processes used by companies to curate the advertisements presented to the consumers. Data mining according to Twin (2020) is a process used by companies to turn raw data into useful information. Data mining is done by using software to look for patterns in large batches of data, businesses can learn more about their customers to develop more effective marketing strategies, increase sales and decrease costs. Data mining and business intelligence play...

Are We e-Protected? (gif from: pinterest.com) The Philippines has been consistently named as the social media capital of the world since 2015 until 2020 due to its population’s high social media and internet usage. In a figure presented by DataReportal,  in January of 2021, 73.91 million Filipinos were  listed as internet users. The number of internet users in the Philippines increased by 4.2 million (+6.1%) between 2020 and 2021. (datareportal.com) Despite the Philippines’ high social media savvy population it lacks data protection mechanisms which makes it exceedingly vulnerable to cyber-threats and attacks. (gif from: pinterest.com) Establishing an IT security system reduces the organization’s vulnerability to cyber-attacks. However, since most organizations in the Philippines do not have the capability to establish an IT security system, they outsource their IT security from different local and international cyber security and tech companies.  Outsourcing an IT securi...

  What is common among the three? They foresee the future.  (Gif from: Giphy.com) In Greek Literature, Pythia, the priestess to Apollo at Delphi is one of the most famous and well celebrated oracles in Greek Mythology. An oracle serves as a gateway to knowing the will of the gods and delivering the message to anyone who seeks the future and their destiny. In the same way, the Christian Belief System also employs the use of Prophets as God’s intermediaries to convey divine revelations and sometimes the future. Isaiah, one of the prophets in the Old Testament, prophesied the birth of Jesus Christ as seen in Isaiah 7:14 .  Project Managers, just like oracles and prophets, also predict the future. However unlike oracles, and prophets, project managers  do not act as God’s intermediary in conveying divine revelations. Project managers use different tools and strategies in foreboding what lays ahead.  (Gif from: globalcompliancepaneltraining.wordpress.com/) One of th...

  " Am I audible?" "Can you see my screen?" "Sorry, I got disconnected, where was I?" (image from: blog.walkme.com) Like many others, this has been my new normal since the global pandemic broke out. Telecommuting or also called as working from home (WFH) has become the new normal for work arrangements in almost all industries in the whole world. Workplaces migrated online due to the fear of being infected by the novel coronavirus. Telecommuting in the age of Covid has allowed me to perform my responsibilities and functions at work without the fear of being infected by the virus and bringing it home to my loved ones. Telecommuting has ensured that minimum health protocols will be efficiently implemented,  which protect workers, like myself,  from being infected. (image from: computerworld.com) Technological breakthroughs have allowed us to migrate our workplaces online. Online meetings, consultations, teaching, and even virtual MOA signing have transcended ...