Today’s post is an excerpt from the article HIRE POWER, published in PM Network on July 1, 2010, and authored by Jenn Danko, a writer based in Chicago, Illinois. The excerpt below was featured in a sidebar entitled A Virtual Foot In the Door. It’s not all about after-work cocktail hours and lunchtime panel discussions [...]
Ahhhh, so true. So true. Well played Scott Adams.
Steve Jobs of Apple used this image to explain their approach to product development, saying: We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both, to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but also have them be intuitive, easy [...]
The original HR Think Tank was designed by myself (with a little header help from Elizabeth Farmer). I got by on tweaking the options on the incredibly well designed Thesis Theme. BUT, without serious customization, a Thesis site looks like a million other blogs out there using Thesis, and I am admittedly no Matt Cheuvront, [...]
I really enjoy blogging, both here at HR Think Tank and over at Cyclingagainstcancer.com. Back in February, I posted my answer to the question – Why Blog? – focusing my argument not only the tidal wave that is the ‘Social Media Revolution’ but also how blogging can facilitate connectedness. I don’t have to tell most [...]
The power of social media is not rocket science – it provides a channel to increase connections and enhance communications by exponentially expanding your reach. What you do with those connections and your now boundary-less network is up to you – no tool will convince people to buy your services, be your friend, or connect [...]
Over two hundred years ago, a bunch of really smart guys in bad wigs drafted and eventually adopted a Bill of Rights to limit the power of federal government and ensure the protection of what they saw as fundamental liberties of the people. The freedom of speech became the First Amendment, adopted on December 15, [...]
Today’s guest post is from Eric Leist, a Public Relations major in Boston University’s class of 2010. Eric blogs over at Meghan Biro’s firm Talent Culture and on his own blog, EricLeist.com ————————————————— You’ll never figure out what’s wrong with me. Am I lazy? Arrogant? Rude? I’m an enigma. A puzzle waiting to be solved. [...]
Nearly every time I tell my friends, family, and even coworkers that I’m on Twitter the SAME thing happens: They look at me like I just told them that I secretly play Dungeons and Dragons in my basement. Or Farmville. Or maybe that I run a secret Star Trek book club on the weekends. Let’s [...]
Most of you have probably already seen this video (if your browser doesn’t display the video, get it on YouTube here). It’s message is pretty difficult to refute – the Social Media Revolution is upon us. I mean, the one stat alone that ‘If Facebook (with over 400 million active users) were a country it [...]