Category: Information Visualization

  • 4 Steps To Advancing Your Career

    4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough ques­tion: If cor­po­rate poli­cies and prac­tices in tal­ent man­age­ment and suc­ces­sion plan­ning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE…

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  • Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

    Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…

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  • Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects?

    Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweek­ly series of posts high­light­ing com­mon ques­tions encoun­tered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered net­work of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…

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  • How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/doJLS…

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  • Can We Shop Our Way To Change?

    Can We Shop Our Way To Change? BY ERIC SMILLIE, fastcoexist.com Through new partnerships with major companies, the formerly tiny Carrotmob is now aiming to use consumers’ buying power to shape global supply chains. When Car­rot­mob orga­nized its first buy-in at a liquor store in San Fran­cis­co’s Mis­sion… http://flpbd.it/CoIY5 Related articles SaveOnBrew Adds Hundreds of…

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  • Don’t Buy A DSLR

    Don’t Buy A DSLR By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Just getting into photography? Great! When you’re looking for a camera, keep on walking past those DSLRs—as of now, their moment is over. You want to get more into pho­tog­ra­phy. You’ve got some­where between a few and sev­er­al hun­dred dol­l… http://flpbd.it/lDNTs Related articles A question about DSLRs…

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  • What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

    What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…

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  • I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work

    I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The inter­net wouldn’t be the same with­out Cate­ri­na Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo host­ing and shar­ing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to per­son­al­ize the web through rec­om­men­da­tions and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…

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  • How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace

    How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace By Nathan Hurst, wired.co.uk Technology Five years ago, Jen Bek­man found­ed 20×200 on the belief that every­one should be able to col­lect art, and that the inter­net could help them do so. While nei­ther the old­est nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has……

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