Near the end of 2010 I set out some goals for myself to complete in 2011. Did I complete them? Hell no. But I’m not necessarily bummed out about it. In your professional career, you go where your career takes you. Sometimes it takes a different path. My career is still along the IT path but it has somewhat shifted a bit.
My major goal for 2011 was to get my CCNP RS. I attempted my CCNP ROUTE but failed on my first attempt. No problem. I’m still studying for it now and will probably sit on the exam before March 2012. It’s still on my list of goals!
When I look back at 2011 I see it as a maintaining year for our network. Not too many implementations. Lots of troubleshooting and optimization. I did work on lots of planning and project management. Learned quite a bit there but nothing of a large scale.
I’ve had growing interest in more implementations for new systems and have been training myself in that area.
2012 will be an interesting year for me and I’m not going to create any major goals this year. What I want to do is see how my career plays out for a while. Let’s just say I’ll create some small goals 
Posted by (@rowelldionicio) on January 03rd, 2012
2011 was my year for social media. I increased my communications with the interwebz this year compared to 2010. So in order here are the websites I visited the most.
1. Google
In particular it’s Gmail, Google Reader and Google+. The first two I happen to use quite a lot. Gmail is my main email communication and Google Reader houses all the news I want to follow. Recent changes to Gmail weren’t looking great in my eyes but I think Google will get this right sooner or later. Their improvements to Google Reader were great and went more in line with their new social media platform.
That brings me to Google+. For me, had lots of potential. But now I’m reconsidering my engagement there because lack thereof. Everyone seems to want to communicate in 140 characters or less.
2. Facebook
Social media with my friends. Need I say more? If you’re not a close friend to me then I probably communicate with you on Twitter.
Great resource and community of techies. The guys at Serverfault (or Stackexchange) have a system nailed perfectly. It’s a Q&A site for those needing help with anything technical related. They also have subsites of other topics.
I use this service to communicate on my social networks, such as Twitter. They give me the ability to schedule out Tweets, organize tweets and access more than one social media account. It’s a great resource for anyone.
5. Cisco
Projects at work kept me busy on Cisco’s website. I’ve read quite a few configuration guides and also visited their support forums. I think their site needs a lot more work to make things more efficient such as their search.
The ultimate time waster. Reddit has many sub-sites (called sub-reddits) where you can absolutely kill time and have a good laugh.
What web services have you visited the most?
Posted by (@rowelldionicio) on December 29th, 2011
Do you have ritual before, during and after your certification exams? I was watching ESPN and thought to myself,
What if we treated an examination like a sports game?
So let’s say I finish my exam and hit “Grade” stand up from my chair, step aside and do the Tebow
Posted by (@rowelldionicio) on December 13th, 2011