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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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  • Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

    Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in… http://flpbd.it/rXXmp…

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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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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer

    ‘Fighting cancer taught me how to live’ Homa Khaleeli, guardian.co.uk Albert Espinosa insists that his gruelling, 10-year battle against cancer was a happy time. Now he has written a book to explain why At 14 Albert Espinosa was a typical football obsessed teenager. He lived with his engineer father, housewife… http://flpbd.it/8PO8g Related articles Quotes to…

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  • DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior

    DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior core77.com Pho­tos Cour­tesy of Paul Sheetz for DRC. After being greet­ed by the wel­com­ing com­mit­tee, check­ing in, exchang­ing my Polaroid photo for my nametag and tak­ing in the intro­duc­to­ry con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence I chugged my morn­ing c… http://flpbd.it/ewTdo Related articles VIDEO: Angelina Jolie visits the DRC…

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  • How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps

    How to Mind Map in Three Small Steps Matt Tanguay, lifehack.org Is your head full of ideas or thoughts? Do you have any con­fu­sion around an idea, project or prob­lem? Do you sim­ply wish to get them out of your head quick­ly and in an orga­nized man­ner? Tra­di­tion­al­ly, you would open a Word or Text……

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  • CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home

    CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home inhabitots.com The U.S. Nation­al Library of Med­i­cine says that ear infec­tions are one of the most com­mon ill­ness­es in babies and young chil­dren. In fact, more than 3 out of 4 kids have had at least one ear infec­tion by 3 years of age…

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  • Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

    Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing: This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe’s…

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  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

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