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  • Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

    An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter…

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  • David Byrne: ethnomusicologist and data pioneer

    David Byrne By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Octo­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/X9j9P Related articles This David Byrne Interview With Himself Is The Weirdest…

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  • Do not believe the marketing about fancy HDMI cables

    Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same by Geoffrey Morrison, cnet.com Peo­ple still have ques­tions about HDMI. Here are more answers. Even after two arti­cles, and a tremen­dous amount of page hits, there still seems to be lots of ques­tions about HDMI cables. I cred­it this to the com­plex­i­ty of the top……

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  • Createspace and the best tools for publishing an ebook

    CreateSpace, Smashwords and Author Solutions Dominate Self-Publishing Market | Bowker theindependentpublishingmagazine.com Bowk­er Press Release: Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth in Just Five Years, Says Bowk­er® Cre­ate­Space, Smash­words and Author Solu­tions dom­i­nate infra­struc­ture land­scape New Prov­i­dence, NJ – Octo­ber… http://flpbd.it/aqbXh Related articles 12 Basic Steps to Publishing through Create Space (megaphonesociety.wordpress.com) Formatting Your Ebook (ashleyfarley.net) Amazon &…

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  • HBS on why you must tell a story in presentations

    Structure Your Presentation Like a Story Nancy Duarte, hbr.org After studying hundreds of speeches, I’ve found that the most effective presenters use the same techniques as great storytellers: By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs … http://flpbd.it/HmuZW Related articles…

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  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Tim­mer­man Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Recruiters who know social media are in demand

    Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a… http://flpbd.it/WuLdr Related articles Using Twitter As A Social Recruiting Tool (windmillnetworking.com) LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Business Cards Do High-Tech Work

    wsj.com Many tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs that deal with most­ly vir­tu­al prod­ucts are embrac­ing the tac­tile busi­ness card. http://flpbd.it/Uigzi Business Cards Do High-Tech Work Related articles Bidding goes high-tech at MCHA fundraiser (heraldtimesonline.com) Superhero Business Cards – These Custom 3D Business Cards Will Make You Look Like a Superstar (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com) All You Need to…

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  • Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

    The Perks of Working From Home Jennifer Shore, mashable.com If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecom­mut­ing. The cur­rent work­force totals more than 128 mil­lion peo­ple, and while eight out of 10… http://flpbd.it/nTXRQ…

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  • Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing

    Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing | MNN – Mother Nature Network mnn.com Photo: ett­labenn/flickr Hip­sters have been mocked every which way; from their pen­chant for skin­ny jeans to their high­brow cof­fee tastes (and low-brow incomes), from their love of vin­tage records to their dis­dain for cor­po­rate chains an… Related…

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  • The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing

    The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing info@buzzfeed.com (http://www.buzzfeed.com/about), buzzfeed.com The goal for web­sites, more than ever, is to get con­tent to go social. These are the ones who are suc­ceed­ing. Update: More data added below. Image by Beck Diefen­bach / Reuters One way to mea­sure how well a web­site is doing is by the… http://flpbd.it/TZ1H5…

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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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