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What Twitter’s IPO Could Mean for Employees
Twitter engineers and the rest of the flock had plenty to tweet about Thursday afternoon, as the company finally announced it had filed for its long-awaited IPO. Twitter, however, submitted its IPO...
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Transmedia Uses Tech to Change Storytelling
Jay Bushman is an Emmy-winning transmedia producer, show runner and writer. He was behind the Jane Austen inspired, tremendously successful, 153 episode series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and more...
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Some Employers Use Social Media to Discriminate
Information revealed on social media sites can lead to hiring discrimination, according to research from Carnegie Mellon University. “Our experiment focused on a novel tension: The tension between the...
View Article4 Weird Ways to Get Attention for Your Company
How can your startup get attention when people are so inundated with pitches that it’s nigh impossible to penetrate? Considering what SEO consultants can cost, investing in guerrilla marketing...
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Social Media Fails as a Job Performance Indicator
Although employers and recruiters are increasingly relying on job seekers’ social media profiles to help them make hiring decisions, a recent study by Florida State University found no correlation...
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Are Traditional Resumes Passé?
Has social media eliminated the need for the traditional resume? The short answer: Not yet. Although a great majority of companies use platforms such as Twitter or LinkedIn to source candidates, 77...
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Recruiters Challenge Candidates on Social Media
As employers increase their monitoring of social media websites, job seekers worry about how their search could be affected. And now there’s a new rub: While it’s not unusual for recruiters to request...
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Oppression is Stronger Than the Internet: Study
A May 2011 protest in Istanbul against Internet censorship and surveillance. The Internet can serve as potent a tool to oppress a national population as it is a way for those oppressed to communicate...
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Apple’s Magic EarPods and the Dangers of Rumor Frenzy
Last week, an anonymous note on the Secret app—which is rapidly becoming the medium for Silicon Valley denizens with something juicy to spill to the world—suggested that Apple’s upcoming EarPods would...
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Why You Should Be Using the Social Web Right Now
Whether you want to establish yourself as an authority among your peers, connect with like-minded IT professionals or draw the attention of technology employers, tweeting and blogging is a smart way...
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‘Knozen’ App Lets You Post Co-Worker Ratings
Do you have a clear idea of how your co-workers view you? If you don’t, you might soon, if they take up Knozen, an iOS app–an Android version is in the works–that lets users rate their colleagues...
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How to Make Yourself Poachable
There are few things more flattering than getting an unsolicited call from a recruiter. Not only does it affirm your reputation—not to mention your skills—it’s likely to put you in a strong...
View ArticleWhat Weird Al Sees May Surprise You
Some might say that nothing demonstrates the power of social media more than Weird Al Yankovic’s album “Mandatory Fun” hitting the top of Billboard’s chart. But that would be cynical. After all, a lot...
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Remember: Employers Can See What You Say Online
Tip of the Day When you’re using social media, remember that what goes online has a nasty habit of staying online, even if you think you’ve removed it. That can make your job search more difficult,...
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Turbocharge Your Time Management With These Tips
By John White Are you currently attending or considering going back to grad school while juggling a demanding career and a busy family life? If so, welcome to my world! With two small children, a...
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Tech Titans Participate in #IceBucketChallenge
What do Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, and Dick Costolo have in common, besides running massive tech companies? All three participated in the #icebucketchallenge, an attempt to raise...
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How to Look for Work Without Alerting Your Boss
Job hunting takes time. A lot of time. So trying to plan your next move while working full time is, to put it mildly, a challenge. It’s complicated by the need for discretion: When you’re looking for...
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Best Practices for Selling B2B Tech Solutions
By John White Throughout my career, I’ve sold Big Data, software, hardware, GPS, cloud services, mobile applications, and a host of other types of productivity-enhancing technology solutions into SMB,...
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Using Social Media to Get the Job You Want
More employers than ever rely on social media to find potential candidates for open positions. Why not use some of their tips and tricks to improve your profiles and get their attention? According to...
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Does a Startup Need a Moral Compass?
Ride-sharing service Uber found itself in a lot of trouble this week after BuzzFeed quoted one of its top executives as saying the company should fund opposition research into journalists. The...
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