On September 25, 2009
YouTube Introduces Creator’s Corner
It would be an understatement to say that there's plenty of material out there about making YouTube videos; you could probably spend weeks or months tracking down all of the tips that have been littered around the site. Still, YouTube's put together a central hub that may be of some value.
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On September 25, 2009
Our Blog – Accredited Online
Jack copied me on his response to a message he received recently, writing “For an email out of the blue, this is a good one.” The message came from Adrienne Carlson, who runs the Accredited Online PHD University blog. She had written Jack to let him know that she included us in her recent post, [...]
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On September 25, 2009
$1 B Twitter? What Do the Investors Know that No One Else Does?
I have nothing against Twitter. I Twitter. But there's a difference between enjoying a service and seeing it as a business. And that's why I scratch my head every time I see more money poured into it. Given yesterday's announcement of a $100 million round, I have to wonder whether there is something under wraps that the investors hear about, or if their brain cells simply succumbed to oxygen starvation from whatever degree of smog might exist in Silicon Valley.
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On September 25, 2009
Less Blogging, More Jogging — Becoming a Balanced Leader
We should all be prepared to throw the Digital switch to Analog to achieve a more human balance in our lives, argues John Maeda. A first step: ban PowerPoint.
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On September 25, 2009
Three Tiny Changes That Drive Success
Are you willing to send 30 seconds to make yourself wildly more successful? If you make these three tiny changes in your internal dialog, you will immediately and automatically find it easier to sell. Prospects will warm to you, and you'll find it easier to develop all opportunities, big and small. Sound too good to be true. It's not. I'm serious. Here are the three tiny changes: CHANGE #1: Describe what you're selling as a "verb" rather than a "noun." For example, suppose you're selling for an industrial glue manufacturer. If you think that your job is to sell "glue" (a noun), you'll talk to the customer about product features. If you think your job is to sell "gluing" (a...
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On September 25, 2009
5 More Things That are Wrong with Your Resume (and How to Fix Them)
I've rounded up five new resume tips that, while they might seem to go against traditional resume wisdom, actually promise to dramatically improve your ob prospects.
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On September 25, 2009
Kayak: A Boatload of Delicious Simplicity
Continuing the E-Commerce Times' exploration of travel-planning Web sites, I paddled over to Kayak this week, and after a few minutes of playing around with the site, I was
inexplicably struck with the desire for ice cream. Specifically, Haagen Dazs' five simple ingredients ice cream.
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On September 25, 2009
Mzinga Puts the Community Platform Puzzle Pieces Together
Mzinga, a player in the evolving community platform space, has relaunched its flagship offering with a product that integrates many of its internally developed features with acquired technologies. The new platform, called "OmniSocial," provides external and internal communication and collaboration tools for human resources, customer support and marketing.
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On September 25, 2009
SETA Contractors Worrying About Jobs And Money
The trend for now of in-sourcing contractor jobs to the government is causing some tension among those companies losing workers and revenue to the process. This should be expected and will continue as long as the current plans are implemented.
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