Using LinkedIn to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

July 27, 2009

LinkedIn has groups that you can join. 341,175 groups as I write this.
There are 30 groups in the search results for the word Lighthouse. 1,338 results when you search food. 8 when when search Garrett (but none are directly related to Chris Garrett). With a little effort you will find at least one group, probably [...]

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Examples of Productivity Ideas Tools and Blogs

July 18, 2009

If you are looking for ways to increase your productivity, have a look at these entries. Each is either a product that will increase your productivity or a blog post with great ideas to help you get more productive.

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Productivity is just one of [...]

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Herding Cats Project Management and Productivity

July 15, 2009

“Herding Cats” is an expression used often in Project Management. It refers to a task that is extremely difficult, or impossible, to do because of people, or variables, constantly in flux and uncontrollable. There is a popular EDS commercial on YouTube with modern “cat herders”.

 
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People-Factors
Project Managers often have to deal with things that should [...]

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Frank Lloyd Wright on Client Needs

July 13, 2009

Toward the end of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life, he constructed his second and last skyscraper, the 19-story H. C. Price Company Office Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. After the skyscraper was completed, Wright appeared with his client at a convocation in town. “A person in the audience asked the question, ‘What’s your first prerequisite?’” Mr. [...]

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Asia Job and Career Resources

July 10, 2009

If you are looking for employment anywhere in Asia, these are the Asian job sites you need to visit to help you in your job search.

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Asia-Employment — If you are contemplating an executive job search in Asia or the Middle East – [...]

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Europe Job and Career Resources

June 6, 2009

If you are looking for employment anywhere in Europe, these are the European job sites you need to visit to help you in your job search.

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4G Wireless Jobs — a [...]

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Google Wave

May 31, 2009

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave [...]

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25 Blogs On Project Management

May 14, 2009

Working with any team, including remote teams, requires great project management skills.  Thus, we thought we’d put together a list of top 25 project management blogs to help you manage your teams wherever they may be.
20 PROJECT MANAGEMENT BLOGS

Project Shrink Though software projects have been Bas de Baar’s specialty, his thoughts on project management in [...]

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Text of Obama’s inaugural speech

January 21, 2009

My fellow citizens,
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the [...]

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Tip’d Out Of Beta

November 18, 2008

OK, it’s finally happened.
Tip’d is out of a one year beta and has officially launched.
They have added some improvements that should make users happy:

Published stories get direct links.
No redirects, and no ‘nofollow’ directives
‘business’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ categories added
The down-voting function (‘Topple’) has been overhauled
Subscriptions to receive published articles via e-mail
Upcoming stories can be sorted chronologically or [...]

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