Work Dress Code (1)
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by Donald J. Trump In the summer, many offices have problems with how employees dress. When the temperature soars, it’s as if common sense disappears. People stop wearing appropriate clothes and out come the flip-flops and the skimpy attire that’s certainly at home on the beach or on the weekends, but not in most businesses. I hear from employers that this is particularly true of young people who are working at their first jobs. They ...
Community Manager Salary Report (4)
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My regular readers know that I’ve been providing salaries for community managers since last fall. In May I asked Bill Johnston at Forum One to collaborate on a survey of salaries. The results have been released so we now have specific numbers. Here are the highlights: The majority of the 225 responding were women (55%) vs male (45%). The average salary was $81 k with a median of $72.5 k Women earned 91% of what ...
Twitter as a Branding Opportunity (11)
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We’ve written before about the importance of building a personal brand for independent web workers, and others have pronounced it a “prerequisite for career success.” If you’re a believer in this idea, and you have a Twitter account, there’s an easy way to help define and promote your own brand: use your Twitter page background. I picked up on this idea from @Pistachio, though it’s been going around. The screenshot is from my own Twitter ...
Why Your Company Can’t Afford to Ban Social Networking | Employee Evolution (4)
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Social networking is not a fad. It’s not one of those things that people think is cool for a few years and then it simply fades away. Much like the internet did, social networking and social media have changed the way the world works. We’re now connected to every friend, acquaintance, girlfriend, boyfriend, and business contact that we have ever encountered – it’s a powerful and even revolutionary tool. Social media has already changed the ...
Business Uses for LinkedIn (9)
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New media is changing the way we do business. I saw somewhere that "opportunity doesn't knock. It chirps, buzzes, pings, and vibrate." That it surely does. Yes, more of the emphasis is shifting online, where businesses have been notoriously able to look bigger, or have a nice presence, especially when in a niche market. It's about the CommunityWeb sites and internet applications that combine content generated by users with communications and facilitate the relationships between ...
The first law of mass media (99)
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Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter. Radio ads used to be live, personal and spoken by an individual.TV ads used to feature actual people, demonstrating something, usually live.Phone calls involved a live speaker, talking, with permission, to another person.Email used to be honest interactions between consenting adults.Facebook pages (and Wikipedia, too) were built by people, not staffs.Twits came from real people, and so did instant messages. One by one, the ...
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Ullash said:
Interesting Observation..
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Josh Bancroft said:
They make the fatal mistake of editing the human out of the conversation. And then what are you left with?
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Yan said:
Frighteningly true. Battle this every day.
Internship Ratings- Interns Rate Back (3)
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Boston notable and young entrepreneur Stephanie Gurtman wrote me to let me know that she’s launched Internship Ratings, a place where interns can rate their experience as interns at various area businesses. According to the website, this is an east coast launch, but the concept is easy to spread across the country, so I imagine as interns discover it, the ratings might spread. One person who might want to check this out is Lauren Berger, ...
Internship Ratings- Interns Rate Back (2)
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Boston notable and young entrepreneur Stephanie Gurtman wrote me to let me know that she’s launched Internship Ratings, a place where interns can rate their experience as interns at various area businesses. According to the website, this is an east coast launch, but the concept is easy to spread across the country, so I imagine as interns discover it, the ratings might spread. One person who might want to check this out is Lauren Berger, ...
It’s Personal. It’s Business. Mad Men, Twitter, and Branding Online (2)
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Recently, a Twitter pal of mine noticed that the characters of AMC’s hit show Mad Men were Twittering. I had recently discovered the show and was just getting acquainted with the characters on DVD and was thrilled when @Don_Draper followed me. In a very organic way, many of the other characters soon followed. A few mysterious @ replies from them was, I thought, an inspired way to build a fan base. In fact, merely days ...
Study: Blogs Love Obama, News Sites Love McCain. But McCain Is Catching Up By Going Negative. (27)
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In general blogs still favor Obama by about two to one, but the opposite is true for traditional news sites. McCain’s speeches and position statements appear on traditional news sites 80 percent more often than Obama’s. And on the sites of the major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox), McCain has a 3 to 1 advantage. (This ratio should come down with the Democratic convention this week).
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Jan said:
Really interesting analysis
Study: Blogs Love Obama, News Sites Love McCain. But McCain Is Catching Up (30)
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Who is doing a better job of getting his message across on the Web: John McCain or Barack Obama? Conventional wisdom says that it is Obama, whose performance on the Web has been strong since the beginning. And conventional wisdom is still correct when it comes to blogs and social networks. But a new study by Attributor that is being released today shows that McCain is actually leading on mainstream news sites and catching up ...
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Jan said:
Really interesting analysis
100 Ways to Succeed #136: (3)
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Ultimate & Perhaps Only "Sure-fire" Winning Formula S.A.V.* *Screw Around Vigorously TrackBack (0) | Posted by Tom Peters | Comments?
Facebook Crosses 100,000,000 Active Users Today (14)
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Facebook’s Dave Morin just tweeted that Facebook has officially crossed the 100,000,000 active user mark as of 5pm PT today. Crossing 100,000,000 active users marks a major milestone for a company that was founded 4 1/2 years ago. The company continues to grow at a tremendous rate - capturing more new social networking users than any other social network in 2008 - and tripling in size since this time last year. Congrats to the Facebook ...
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Top 10 Blogger Customizations (3)
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Image by Mike LichtGoogle’s Blogger platform offers users complete access to their template code. This enables Blogger users to customize their template in any way they choose, by changing the layout, design or adding extra functionality which is lacking in the default templates. While community support for Blogger is still nowhere near the capacity offered by the Wordpress community, there are still many dedicated Blogger enthusiasts tweaking away at the template code to devise new ...
survey says 2 out of 4 people are sick of surveys (2)
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OK, I haven’t really seen a study that proves this yet, but I think it might be worth pursuing. There is rarely a day where a fresh survey doesn’t pop up in my inbox promising to shed light on another mysterious issue plaguing the employment industry. Frankly, I think these polls are getting tiresome. Are the results truly relevant? More often then not, I find myself scanning the survey and hitting the delete button, most ...
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Terence said:
Those are pretty ridiculous surveys, but they're good link bait? It sure worked on Cheezhead.
If I Had a Startup, I’d Send All My PRs on Weekends (10)
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You’ve seen the situation a thousand times. There’s a limited window of opportunity to perform some task - for example, all citizens are required to pick up new IDs within the next three months - and although everyone knows that there’ll be a huge queue, everyone waits for the very last day, creating a huge mess. It’s almost as if all people are masochists by nature, secretly enjoying the fact that they’ll have to wait ...
http://mashable.com/2008/08/25/startup-summer-weekends/ (12)
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You’ve seen the situation a thousand times. There’s a limited window of opportunity to perform some task - for example, all citizens are required to pick up new IDs within the next three months - and although everyone knows that there’ll be a huge queue, everyone waits for the very last day, creating a huge mess. It’s almost as if all people are masochists by nature, secretly enjoying the fact that they’ll have to wait ...
What I've been doing while I've not been posting (9)
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I haven't posted for two weeks. This is the first time in ten years that I have gone two weeks without writing a column. Really. I have a track record for continuing to write when every other sane person would take a break: I wrote a column right after I delivered a baby, I wrote a column from the admitting room of a mental ward, and I wrote a column four hours after the World ...
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Webomatica said:
this blog fascinates me because it's so unpredictable. Starts with blog-avoidance and then segways into pictures of the blogger at a coffee shop.
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Ben said:
an example of by traffic isn't a good indicator of content. Of course, if Penelope never posted again, it would probably dip. But for now search engine traffic/OCD will keep numbers up
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