There’s a good chance the CEO, CFO or C-whatever will never see it. According to a 2009 survey conducted by the International Association of Administrative Professionals and the ePolicy Institute, there’s a 59 percent chance your message will be intercepted by an administrative assistant.
Those electronic gatekeepers are often asked to screen, delete and ghostwrite the boss’s e-mail.

And it’s on the increase.

Of the 614 administrative professionals surveyed, 59 percent said they ghostwrite responses, up from 43 percent in a 2002 survey.

Fifty-two percent said they read or screen executives’ incoming e-mail, twice the number reported seven years ago. Thirty-eight percent delete messages addressed to executives, up from 29 percent in 2002. Another 55 percent are authorized to use executives’ electronic signatures.

Nancy Flynn, executive director of  ePolicy Institute, said 72 percent know that an electronic signature is “as legally binding as a hand-written signature.”

What it is: Pattie Maes of MIT shows off  a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.

What’s your opinion: The coolest thing you’ve ever seen or something to scary to ponder?

Officials from the private-public agency charged with helping high-tech startups get off the ground and grow has been on an e-mail petition campaign to enlist support from Kansans.

Despite some media reports suggesting that KTEC will remain intact because of actions in the Kansas House, KTEC apparently isn’t convinced that its survival is guaranteed.

Click here to see the petition.

More specifically, I’m sick of having to change them every three months.

I’ve got passwords for the ATM, for online banking, for my voice mail and a gazillion other things at work and home.

The experts say that you should never write them down. That’s to protect you, they say, from bad guys gaining access to your private stuff.

I say it’s to protect them from any liability they would have from you when their systems get hacked, and your information stolen.

Problem is, there are so many cotton-pickin’ passwords that you have to remember, and in variations that require digits, upper-case and lower-case letters and x number of characters, that you can’t use just one password for all the things that you need a password for.

This particular exercise in futility is supposedly meant to make things more efficient and productive by doing everything on the computer.

But on this particular morning, there is nothing efficient nor productive about this. My ability to get the work done that I should be doing isn’t happening because I’ve got so many passwords to manage I’ve been locked out of a Web site.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to make a phone call to get a new password.

SpinVox Offers New Guidelines to Help Users Practice ‘Safe Text’

That just cracked me up. But I don’t get out much.

The person pointed out that an ad that ran in The Eagle touted the iPhone’s speed but didn’t mention that the network isn’t available here:

It may not seem like a big deal to some of us that are aware that the 3g coverage of ATT is limited and know to check the coverage first, but there is no guarantee that the good folks at the ATT store will let potential customers in on this, and (again) nowhere on the advertisement does it say that ATT’s 3g coverage is quite limited and not available anywhere near the newspaper’s reader’s area.

I have to admit, I love a good gadget and might have considered buying an iPhone if I weren’t still in the first year of my two-year Verizon contract. And I don’t know if I would have researched the iPhone enough to know the network isn’t available here.

I’d be interested to know if anyone bought one without knowing and regrets it. Maybe it’s not that big of a deal, and I imagine the 3G network will be here soon enough.