What’s geekier: Tech geeks or doctoral students who study tech geeks?

Here’s some of my coverage from the 2010 ICIS Conference in St. Louis. I was covering the event for Dice and Dice News.

Last December, in St. Louis, I attended the ICIS conference, an annual meeting of university and college-level educators in the tech industry. These are people who study the industry of technology and the people in it. I’ve been to a lot of tech conferences, and this one might be the driest and geekiest of them all. Luckily, this crowd embraces it with a sort of Rodney Dangerfield “I get no respect” bashfulness. Luckily, they make up for it by delivering some really fascinating information. Almost every session is a series of doctoral students and professors giving presentations on studies they’ve been conducting over the past year.

Here are my top 5 favorite videos from the ICIS Conference. The interview subjects are a mishmash of doctoral students, professors, and also CIOs who were invited to speak at the conference. Below, I have 18 more great videos.

My 5 favorite videos from the 2010 ICIS Conference

	What does your ideal job candidate look like?
	Viral product design is far more effective for product adoption than email marketing or banner ads
	The best IT people have business savvy and they don’t even realize it
	What’s your killer job interview question?
	How to force a moment of entrepreneurial epiphany

18 more great videos from the 2010 ICIS Conference

	Secrets to legitimizing information systems projects
	Boeing Needs Young Blood to Replenish Its Retiring IT Staff
	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is looking for the best athletes to run IT
	CIO of Scottrade: ‘Past behaviors show us what you’re going to do in the future’
	The secret to completing technical projects on time
	If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks
	Interview question: What kind of animal would you be and why?
	Centene reduces IT staff turnover by investing in IT
	How do you handle situations of stress?
	Grooming IT people to be leaders at Barry Wehmiller
	Corporations need versatile tech workers to fill the void of retiring baby boomers
	Warning signs that your company will become the next Enron
	Is your CIO an advocate, facilitator, or traditionalist?
	You don’t have to update your IT skills to get a job: Surprising research on IT job obsolescence
	If your company has low IT-business alignment, expect high turnover of IT employees
	Prohibiting leisure blogging of employees has a negative effect on productive blogging
	The larger your team, the greater the loafing
	For online collaboration to work, forget internal corporate structures, just build human relations