New Management & Career Blog from Miki Saxon
My long-time virtual friend Miki Saxon has finally started blogging at MAPping Company Success. She labels herself quite a Luddite, and tends to be very resistant to new technology. Of course, I’ve...
View ArticleGoogle SMS
We haven’t talked much about SMS on this site, but I’ve been playing with Google SMS, which is a useful service. (Yes, I know i’m late to the party with this…) Google SMS is a new service that enables...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office online—without Microsoft
Do you want to break free of Microsoft’s grip? Use exclusively web-based apps, most of them free? If you do, try reviewing Ismael Ghalimi‘s list of ‘best-of-breed’ web apps, which together provide a...
View ArticleFree Job-Search Ebook
Via Barbara Safani, a no-cost job search ebook from Career Hub: I’m excited to announce our very first eBook! The book, which features in-depth job search advice from 17 career marketing experts is...
View ArticleHow to Manage Virtual Employees
In our latest FastCompany column, we summarized best practices in managing virtual employees: …Daigle observed that the virtual structure eliminates many political issues: “Not only do we not have much...
View ArticleIf You Want to Be Known as an Expert, Act Like One
Seems like a simple enough concept, right? If you want to be thought of as an expert in your field, besides just knowing your stuff, if you could figure out how experts — not wanna-be experts, but true...
View ArticleWriting the Perfect Email
A constant complaint we hear around the office is that emails we receive (and sometimes send) are poorly written or unclear. According to How to Write a Perfect Email, when writing an email that...
View ArticleBuilding a business by leveraging the talents of autistic people
I recently learned about an entrepreneur with a very clever business model: Thorkil Sonne, founder of Danish software testing company Specialisterne. The 55-person firm’s clients include CSC,...
View ArticleHow NOT to Launch a Social Media Marketing Agency
I’m not in the practice of being overly critical, and certainly not mean or snarky. But sometimes someone does something so completely, utterly incompetent or misguided that it’s worth pointing out,...
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Fun with Klout
I’m not going to bash Klout. plenty of others have done that already, and besides, I like getting free stuff, so, more power to them! I just want to have fun with them. A few weeks ago, I did a post...
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