Cautioning Against Technological Pitfalls – Part Ten

Encouraging the Inclusion of the Technology Manager in Management Meetings

Some institutions are still oblivious to reality, for today the information technology department is no less important than the greatest departments the institution contains, indeed it is in the front row, but some are still oblivious to this high importance. Our reality today obliges us to pay complete attention to this department and to mandate its presence in the institution's top leadership meetings due to its impact on developing the institution, for the way the technical department manager thinks usually differs from others, as he must read the plans and strategies, know the challenges and needs, think ahead by several steps, and be on readiness to execute whatever the institution may need in all its current and upcoming phases, and develop and integrate its services while adopting mechanisms of automation and abbreviation in procedures, technologies, and tasks, and reviewing them with the sector officials in the periodic management meetings. Placing the information technology department in isolation is an extremely bad matter and inevitably affects the institution's performance and what it could be, and reveals a negative image of the management. Remedying the matter is very simple, for merely by adding them to the meetings you will see progress, God willing.

Cautioning Against Buying Cryptocurrencies Without Knowledge and Understanding

Cryptocurrencies cross continents in a sensitive bubble that has positives and various observations against it, for many adventurers have lost vast sums of money and some have certainly profited, and the thieving charlatans are spread throughout this expanse, slithering in from every direction and exploiting everyone who knocks on the doors of cryptocurrencies, which have become famous for being more swaying than a buoy in a deep sea. The prices of the currencies have reached fantastical figures and in an instant lose their value and then rise again and then continue their dance night and day. This trade and venture you must study deeply with accredited, expert, practicing specialists, who are few, and you must beware with all caution of the charlatans and the highway robbers, who are like the foam of the sea.

Encouraging the Use of the Forthcoming Foldable Tablets

There is no doubt that smartphones have approached a new stage and a great leap, for since Samsung launched one of the greatest contemporary human innovations, namely the foldable Fold phones, which upon opening become a tablet through which we write our articles and read on it night and day and watch everything useful and beneficial, then we close it from its two sides so it becomes a phone carried in the pocket and we speak on it at any time. This wonderful technology has proven, with all certainty, that it is the correct direction for business and enterprise phones and for writers, readers, and everyone who needs a large screen when carrying out some task. We now await the launch of the second generation of this wonderful technology and hope that versions will be released at a lower price and that it will enter the primary production line so that the prices are within everyone's reach. The importance of this innovation has begun to seep into the rest of the companies, so we see Microsoft has bought a company to enable it to produce and support phones of such a pattern and concept, and Huawei threatens to release a similar version, and the marathon of Fold devices will begin soon.

Encouraging the Sale of Micro-Services on the Internet

Some people waste their time without benefiting from it, not knowing that this time of theirs can be exploited by offering micro-services on the sites that sell micro-services, such as the site "Fiverr," "Khamsat," and others, for through them you can offer your services in any skill you possess, and even if you do not possess any specialty, some services such as transcribing audio recordings or YouTube, voice reading, account management, following up on orders and customer service, and marketing and sales services do not require high skill, and there are other services such as design, production, language editing, and translation, and among other examples are programming applications and websites, legal review, consultations, designing diagrams, formatting books, and many micro-services that can be offered on these sites. The profit rates in them may reach for some people tens of thousands of dollars, and the least of them from 500 dollars to 1,000 or 3,000 dollars per month, and all of that depends on the speed and accuracy of your completion of the tasks. Invest your time and let the wheel turn however small it may be, for merely by making it turn it will turn the wheel larger than it, and so on, and never be ashamed to try, and even if you fail many times, do not despair and persevere.

Cautioning Against Malicious Accounts That Steal Your Social Media Accounts

The state of some corruptors has reached the point of continuing to harm people and outwit them by sending messages of an old idea with renewed content, namely warning you that your account will be closed due to this and that and that you must now enter this page and log in and upload your ID card, and it may reach the point of paying a sum of money and other things. The result is that the site is fake and contains the same design as the original site, and you have, by this act, given this bad person your username, your password, your email, as well as a picture of your official ID and a sum of money, so you end up afterward in harm because of this bad act by its bad perpetrator. This act is classified in information security under the name phishing. Always, as soon as such messages come to you, delete them immediately, or enter the site from its official address that you know, or search for it on Google, then enter it after verifying it, then look whether you have any alerts or not, and most likely you will not see anything, and make certain always and forever to enable the two-factor verification system for all your accounts, for if you fall into this predicament you will be unable to do anything about it.

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