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Tom Peters goes old school. Well…not that old…but he digs out 3 books he did in the 90′s. The Project 50: Fifty Ways to Transform Every “Task” into a Project That Matters! The Brand You 50 : Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an “Employee” into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion! The [...]

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Linked from Tom Peters….this is a post from Advertising Age: What to Do When Your Friends Get Laid Off. 1 – be a friend. 2 – network – put them in touch with your network. twitter, facebook, linkedin. 3 – collect everyone you know that has been laid off into a group. share. help. It [...]

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Props to Hannah for pointing this out in her blog. Here is a great intro to LinkedIn – most of you know I am a LinkedIn fiend. This is a very easy to handle explanation. What is LinkedIn? from LinkedIn Marketing on Vimeo.

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OK – if you don’t GET Twitter, take the 3 minutes and watch this…it will make sense. I still don’t think i am using it properly but I am working on it. I get it. I get it!

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Another post from Tom Peters. I got behind this past week. This time from the WSJ – Unemployment: Worse Than it Looks. Some very disturbing numbers that tell the real story. Not the 6% unemployed propaganda. Just going to cut and paste the stats….with some commentary and not going to follow the rules….props to the [...]

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Hey! That’s me! Sarah Needleman wrote a very good article on Dec. 9 in the WSJ: Explaining Your Layoff to a Job Recruiter. She provides a few excellent pieces of advice. 1 – don’t be too focused on a geographic area. “cast a wide net”, Needleman recommends. Don’t rule out ANYTHING. All industries, sizes of [...]

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The Bullock Cart and the Race Car | Life Beyond Code Posted using ShareThis

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Pat W. just forwarded this to me. I have not been following Vaynerchuk but I knew the name. There are some great themes here: – you need to build brand equity in yourself. – believe. work hard. know what you are doing. – network! people are the people that will help you. – be transparent. [...]

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This is totally worth the two minutes of your life. 40 movie clips cut and edited together to form an inspirational montage.

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So now we will find out if all this personal branding and networking, social and otherwise, is all that I believe it to be. I was laid off yesterday. (Along with many many others. I would put it at 50 ish people). I came home, grabbed a fresh notebook and got to work. I opened [...]

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