Archive for October, 2006

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Seeing (Product) Red

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Here’s an idea your HR department and your company can get behind: (Product) Red. One of the products on the promotion is the iPod Nano Red, which in addition to being a great music player will also mean that “Apple will give $10 of its purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in [...]

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Interview Bloopers

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Some good reading for potential job candidates: Avoid These 10 Interview Bloopers. Great advice. And learn to shake hands, for crying out loud.

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To Motivate, Get Attention

Monday, October 30th, 2006

This is a painting on a ceiling in a “smoking room.” A buddy of mine sent this and I was just fascinated with what a good idea this is. To motivate your employees you have to get their attention. And then move on. This is a great way to make a point about smoking. Next [...]

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Confidential Do Not Distribute

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Follow-up Measurement About Google Searching for Confidential Do Not Distribute
As communicators, every day we try to keep up on the latest ways to break through the clutter, get attention, and inspire action. To assess how well we do that, we measure our results. So, we looked at the results of one of our recent posts [...]

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Lifestyle Job Searches with SimplyHired

Friday, October 27th, 2006

SimplyHired is a job search engine that works to narrow offerings to companies that people would want to join. Pretty cool idea. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch wrote about SimplyHired’s novel approach to parsing its 5M+ listings:
On Monday Simply Hired will announce another specialty search engine, this time for 50+ year olds. This adds already existing [...]