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by Meridith Levinson

Introducing Moved & Shaken

Opinion
Apr 17, 20072 mins

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Yesterday ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã.com launched a new blog, Moved & Shaken, where IT professionals can freely and candidly discuss changes taking place in their organizations. We at ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã.com envision Moved & Shaken as a forum in which IT professionals can rant and rave about their managers and their new ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãs; where they can give each other a heads up about what it’s like to work for a particular ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã or IT manager; and where they can debate their bosses’s decisions about such controversial topics as layoffs and outsourcing.

As you may have surmised, Moved & Shaken is a spinoff of Movers & Shakers. Occasionally, a post on this blog about a particular ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã—say, Natasha Hawkins—would set off a firestorm of comments, with current and former IT professionals who had worked for the ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã expressing their utter disdain for the individual in question. Commenters would warn readers of what it was like to work for a particular ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and what readers could expect if they ever had to work for her.  I was delighted to see a community form around my posts, even if some of the comments made my hair curl.  I was also glad that Movers & Shakers readers were reaching out to each other in this way: sharing very practical insight, experiences and advice, even if that advice was ‘Find another job before he cuts/outsources yours!’  Since those comments quickly got buried beneath subsequent posts, we decided to create a separate showcase (if you will) for these kinds of comments. 

For more information about Moved & Shaken, check out the first post.  In it you’ll find the outcome of my attempt to get an interview with Mitchell Habib, a ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã who inspires both ire and admiration in Movers & Shakers’ readers.