From the monthly archives:

August 2009

The Next Best Thing: Can’t Get an Interview? Set up a Meeting

August 31, 2009

September is right around the corner – you’ve been out there looking for a job all summer (or maybe even longer) only to be met with a barren wasteland or fully-staffed companies and limited opportunities. Companies are cutting the fat and streamlining work to the fewest number of people as possible these days – which [...]

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The Social Media Revolution Isn’t Coming – It’s Already Here

August 27, 2009

You are being watched and you will be found You can run, you can hide, but no matter where you go – the social media revolution will find you. Social media is changing the way we do business, the way we communicate and share ideas, and even the way we think and carry out our [...]

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Memo to the CEO: Encourage Innovation

August 24, 2009

Welcome to the real world You’re in your early twenties, fresh out of college, eager to take on the working world. As you’re handed your diploma you ascertain a certain knowing of ‘this is it’ only to soon find yourself as a very small fish in a large pond of desperate job-seekers. You wake up [...]

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The Philosophy Behind #FollowFriday

August 20, 2009

What is Follow Friday? As Ron [Hubel] so aptly states above, “Follow Friday on Twitter is a little tradition they have every Friday where people recommend to their followers other people to follow.” Basically, we give a shout out to people we respect, find interesting, or are otherwise not annoying. On a platform that is [...]

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Can You Be A Cubicle Entrepreneur?

August 17, 2009

So you want to be an entrepreneur. Outstanding. Do you have a vision? A business plan? The funds to realistically put a plan into action? If you answered yes to all of these questions – this article isn’t for you – if you have the ways and means, seriously, what are you waiting for? Stop [...]

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After the Comma

August 13, 2009

My weekday morning commute almost always consists of listening to Mike & Mike on ESPN radio. Amidst the four hours of rambling, Sportscenter interruptions, and not-so-funny jokes, M&M will throw in a nugget a wisdom – a profound statement that even the casual listener can take away and apply to the ‘big picture’. Earlier this [...]

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Facebook Lite: Copycat or the Next Step in Social Media Evolution?

August 12, 2009

Facebook is either desperate or brilliant. They’ve been rolling out the punches this week – first with their aquistion of FriendFeed, then in their addition of Realtime Facebook Search, and now they have plans to release a stripped-down over-simplified version of their platform aptly named ‘Facebook Lite‘. Myspace I’m not here to break the news, [...]

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