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| Become the Solution To The Job Interviewer’s Problem |
| 2008-06-19 10:40:59 |
The absolute worst way to go to an interview is with the
attitude of: “Please, please - hire me.”
When you go to an interview with that attitude you appear
desperate. And even though you actually may be desperate in
a difficult job market, you don’t want to appear that way.
The demeanor and attitude that you bring to the [...]...
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| Use Plurk as a Business Tool |
| 2008-06-10 15:34:21 |
Much like Twitter, but with more features and abilities to communicate with others, Plurk is a new social media tool that allows you to connect with your business colleagues and friends.
If you’ve already established a presence on Twitter, it will be easy to understand how to use Plurk as a business tool as well.
Once you [...]...
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| Does What Goes Around Come Around? |
| 2008-02-18 07:50:01 |
My mother always used to say to me “What goes around comes aroundâ€. As a young boy she would say that to me every time I felt used by a friend or taken advantage of by someone. The older I got the more I witnessed how true this was and we truly do reap what [...]...
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| Are The Rules of Business Changing? |
| 2008-02-15 07:52:32 |
Business leaders collect data and subsequently when confronted with the aggregate analysis the typical reaction is to create organizational change aimed at improving the negative results highlighted in the data.
The subsequent change initiatives consume internal resources, already overloaded with work, and typically involve outside consultants who make their living trying to help organizations gain [...]...
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| Is The Cluetrain leaving The Station? |
| 2008-02-14 04:25:49 |
In the old days when the conductor of the train was ready to leave a station the whistle blew and he shouted “All Aboard!”.Yesterdays presentation at the SAP Anniversary session of The Cluetrain ignited the blogosphere with conversational rivers that will likely swell for weeks. Doc Searls presentation ripped open minds and made [...]...
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| Cluetrain Perspectives: Right or Wrong? |
| 2008-02-13 17:32:25 |
Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, did a anniversary presentation at the SAP offices in New York City today and his comments were summed up by Charlene Li on a blog post at Social Media Today that is worth sharing. Charlene writes : “Doc Searls started talking about [...]...
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| Are We Headed For Chaos? |
| 2008-02-13 06:03:29 |
02 13th, 2008
An average commuter will drive 60 miles a day which equates to $21,098 in cost a year per person commuting. This cost continues to rise as the cost of fuel goes up.The average worker spends in excess of 50 hours a week away from home. As [...]...
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| How Does “Free” Impact Your Business? |
| 2008-02-10 14:16:08 |
The internet is free. The tools are free. Content is free. Social networks are free and users have gained the freedom of expression and connectivity without constraint for free.The only factors of user and producer cost is time, attention and trust.The “free” model doesn’t fit well with traditional business models and mindsets. People have [...]...
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| Things You Wish You Could Say At Work |
| 2008-02-08 07:39:32 |
1. Ahhh… I see the f–k-up fairy has visited us again…
2. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce.
3. How about never? Is never good for you?
4. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
5. I’m really easy to get along with once you [...]...
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| What Does Free Earn: GoDaddy Go Figure |
| 2008-02-08 05:09:23 |
The perplexing question for businesses is “how can we make money using the social web?”
Most view the social web as a playground, a place where people connect, converse and businesses view the economic game as purely one of advertising.
For years businesses have continuously tried to develop metrics to measure their return on advertising [...]...
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| The state of business |
| 2008-02-06 11:19:38 |
The website GreenBiz and its editors embarked on a journey to solve a mystery. Using data on a slew of indicators comprising the GreenBiz Index, part of the inaugural “State of Green Business 2008″ report was released last week. See www.greenbiz.com to download the report. The conclusion: Environmental performance overall in the U.S. is [...]...
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| Sustainable English and the Communication-friendly Environment |
| 2008-02-03 04:23:23 |
Featured post by Terry Kaufman from YourEnglishSuccess!
One day I went to HSBC to interview my customers and their non-native English speaking colleagues. I wanted to understand their communication case better and get greater insight into Anglophone and non-Anglophone interactions.
During one interview, I was amazed at how eloquently one individual, Mr. Boyer, clearly expressed the [...]...
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| How Good is Your Social Marker |
| 2008-01-26 08:36:55 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.comThe social web is creating a reversal in the process of managing customers. People learn from people and subsequently are avoiding influence from institutions rather the conversations of people, one to one to millions, have become the power of influence.These conversations are creating “social markers” on brands. [...]...
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| Work vs Prison |
| 2008-01-18 19:40:51 |
IN PRISON… you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
AT WORK… you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.
IN PRISON… you get three meals a day.
AT WORK… you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.
IN PRISON… you get time off for good [...]...
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| #1 Form of Business Communication - Email |
| 2008-01-16 22:11:38 |
It’s a surprise to me how many companies have websites these days. From the companies that run their business out of their home office, the hundreds of thousands of small businesses, all the way up to large corporations…they all have a website and utilize email for communicating with clients, vendors, and other employees within [...]...
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| Creating your mission statement for success |
| 2008-01-16 04:45:36 |
When you first start a new company, it is vitally important that you set up your mission statement. This is a statement that gives your company purpose. What are you starting this new company for? What do you want it to accomplish? What is the driving force behind this organization?
The reason [...]...
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| Is It Markets, Methods and Movements? |
| 2008-01-13 04:50:55 |
Businesses are shaped and built around markets, existing or created. Whether the proposition is a product or service, for a business to survive it has to have a market that wants or needs its product or service.Business follows different methods to build and deliver to the masses. Creating [...]...
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| Are We Programmed for Dependence or Independence? |
| 2008-01-05 07:50:20 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
The great historian George Santana once said “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”The history of social movements have demonstrated the human desire for independence while the “portals of power” have always tried to make people dependent on the power structures.
More and [...]...
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| Competency Models for Superior Employees |
| 2008-01-04 18:28:52 |
In business, you want to have the best employees working for you. If your team is made up of high quality people who have the skills and traits to succeed, your company will grow faster, quicker, and easier.
It’s those times that you have key employees holding your company back from this growth. I’m [...]...
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| Thank you and Happy New Year! |
| 2008-01-03 18:48:16 |
Now that we’ve entered into 2008, I hope most of you have written down your business and personal goals that you want to accomplish this year.
I just got done reviewing the goals I set in early 2007 last week and I was happy with the things I’ve been able complete (and of course there’s still [...]...
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| Are Businesses Afflicted with C.P.A.? |
| 2008-01-03 13:35:43 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
“You’ll have ten minutes to explain the virtual world of social networks.” That was the instructions from a global corporation who asked us to dial into the proverbial Monday morning executive meeting and discuss social networks.So how does one educate business executives about the value of conversational relationships [...]...
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| How to go “green” |
| 2008-01-02 10:35:00 |
Featured post by Lara Valentine from Green Habits
Today’s Alert Headline from CSR-Wire read “CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007:Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize helps validate business case for addressing climate crisis”. The story highlights a report by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors that released a “Carbon Beta” study that gives strong evidence [...]...
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| Are We headed for a Train Wreck? |
| 2008-01-02 08:33:10 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
Today’s social networks are “train cars” of conversations.People connect to people they perceive as “headed in the same direction they desire to pursue”. The subsequent conversations reflect common threads of interest. The different train tracks represent different conversations, different platforms, different affinities and different transactions.
We’ll define a transaction as [...]...
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| Will 2008 be the Year of Social Commerce? |
| 2008-01-01 11:10:12 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
Many of the conversations in 2007 were about whether social networks will become centric to conducting commerce, B2B, B2C and P2P.While social networks continue to grow exponentially the next growth curve will be driven by the holy grail of economics“, social commerce. Social commerce may actually become the [...]...
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| What is the Impact of Cascading Conversations? |
| 2007-12-31 04:33:24 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
Based on the ebb and flow of the social web in 2007 this new year promises to bring more disruption facilitated by the cascading conversations of individuals, one to one to millions. We are likely to experience significant adoption of the social web by businesses representing every market segment [...]...
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| 10 Points for Business Transformation |
| 2007-12-30 17:21:27 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
There is an old saying, “if you stay in this world you will never learn another one.”Learning the dynamics, the art and the science of the new world created by the social web is one of the foremost challenges for businesses.
Current business theories are correct in their own [...]...
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| Dividing Factors: People vs. Businesses |
| 2007-12-30 15:46:15 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
Social Tools are changing the way business gets done.IBM, Toyota, even Wells-Fargo Bank, have invested serious money in Second Life and are using blogs to engage customers, people; many corporations are building their own social networks to serve employees and to create commerce amongst customers; major law firms encourage [...]...
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| Success in business and in life |
| 2007-12-17 18:13:23 |
I just stumbled across a website that you all might enjoy called Potential2Success.com. I thought it was very interesting and they have a lot of great info on their site to help you succeed. Even if you are already successful, you can surely brush up on some aspects and polish others.
The post that [...]...
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| Happy Birthday! Birthday parties at work. |
| 2007-12-14 11:00:23 |
Businesses that truly value their employees create special occasions to celebrate. Birthdays are always a good time to bring together your employees and celebrate one specific employee and have some fun.
I’m writing about this today because it’s my birthday, today! Unfortunately, I work from home so their won’t be any celebrations, but I [...]...
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| American Psycho: Business Card Scene |
| 2007-12-10 11:36:57 |
Make sure your Business-Card">business cards make an impression! An article called “Designing Impressive Business Cards” tells you how to create your own impressive business card. The most important aspect of the article is “If you want people to KEEP your card, you must give them a reason not to throw it away…for example [...]...
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| How you made money |
| 2007-12-07 17:05:43 |
A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.
The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, “Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel.
“I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, [...]...
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| Road warrior, solutions to keep you grounded |
| 2007-12-07 16:45:17 |
I don’t regret my days as a road warrior, visiting all the different cities and meeting all the great people, however, I wish I would have had more structure in my business to keep things from getting so chaotic. I came across an Answering Service solution that I wish would have been around in [...]...
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| It’s been awhile |
| 2007-12-06 10:21:26 |
Featured post by Lara Valentine from Green Habits
Its been awhile since I’ve written. I’ve been busy. In keeping busy, I’ve neglected some other responsibilities, but I’m back now. I’m wiser too.
Away from my professional life of being a “sustainability” consultant, I also own a house. A duplex actually, although where I [...]...
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| Network Groups |
| 2007-11-05 13:20:43 |
Featured post by Brock Henderson from Henderson & Associates
I am a firm believer in networking, however there is such a thing as too much networking.
Networking, online as well as off-line, takes time. It means developing a relationship of trust and confidence between yourself and the individual you are networking with. And [...]...
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| Conference calls: “Who just joined?” or is it “Who has understood?” |
| 2007-11-05 04:15:23 |
Featured post by Terry Kaufman from Your English Solutions
Conference calls may be one of the most excruciating experiences for non-native English speakers. Personally, as a native English speaker, I often have difficulty understanding participants due to a number of factors:
- Sound quality
- Subject matter
- Number of participants
- Effective leadership during the call
I remember a [...]...
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| The Value of Hiring Someone Above Your Budget |
| 2007-10-31 08:28:58 |
I was having lunch the other day with a good friend of mine and he was telling me that his company is growing and needs to hire more people. I told him that was great! It’s always an exciting time in a business when the demands exceed the resources and you have to [...]...
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| Business 3.0: Business profiles on social networks |
| 2007-10-23 06:42:39 |
Featured post by Jay Deragon from LinkToYourWorld.com
From Personal Profiles to Business Profiles: It is about time!Business 3.0 was created by Mike Zeuthen and Jason Ward. Mike Zeuthen wanted his business, Under Pressure, on Facebook to sell his target market.
Facebook didn’t allow it, so Mike and Jason made it happen. Business 3.0 is the end [...]...
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