Fabio Rosati: Bidding Adieu to Your Local Economy. "America is my country, but Paris is my hometown," noted Gertrude Stein nearly a century ago.
While geographically perplexing, Ms. Stein's words prove increasingly prophetic now as record numbers of people look beyond their physical "hometown" (or even country) to find jobs or workers. Simply put, today you're no longer bound by the local economy outside your front door. Mark Cuban: Which USA Do You Work In? When it comes to getting a job, the USA has bifurcated into two employment worlds: the digital world and the brick-and-mortar world.
The brick-and-mortar world is everything you physically touch. Portland Incubator Experiment graduates first class, including one that landed $12 million investment. View full sizeMotoya Nakamura/The OregonianRenny Gleeson (left) and Rick Turoczy kick off the Portland Incubator Experiment's Demo Day today at Baghdad Theater.
Founders of each of the eight startups made an 8-minute presentation on their company and potential. It wasn't until the final presenter of the Portland Incubator Experiment's Demo Day that the biggest cheers erupted. Up on the big screen flashed one big number: $12 million. VendScreen had just landed the investment for its ability to attach mobile phones to vending machines, the startup's co-founder and chief executive Paresh Patel told the crowd. Begin Your Career in Health & Nutrition Education Today! Data to be a defining tech trend in 2012. The start of this year was marked by a tech industry obsession with where to put growing mountains of information gathered online and by sensors increasingly woven into modern lifestyles.
External drives boasted seemingly unfillable capacities and companies touted services for storing bits and bytes at massive data centers in the Internet "cloud. " As 2012 approaches, focus has turned to searching for trends, patterns and other useful insights about people's preferences and behaviors that might be buried in troves of data. "Big analytics toward the end of the year became the big term and into next year it will be the big term," independent Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle told AFP on Friday. 5 Steps To Measure The ROI Of Digital Media Channels. Many marketers have worked hard in 2011 to develop appropriately customized ROI measures for social media.
I have dedicated a few previous posts on how to approach these measures. As we move into 2012, I would like to raise a key question of measurement that isn’t consistently addressed but is of critical importance. That is: How are you measuring the interplay and overall performance of your combined paid, earned, and owned digital media channels? How do you know which elements are driving the most value? Most marketers are starting to understand that the most effective digital communication plans seamlessly integrate content across paid, earned, and owned media channels.
As marketers continue to build out ever more complex digital ecosystems, understanding how all elements, individually and in unison, are contributing to overall success is a cost of entry for effective optimization. Forest Service - Job Openings. A Taste of Forest Service Life The Forest Service offers positions for both permanent and temporary employees.
Permanent positions are for full-time employees and provide a flexible range of Federal government benefits. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service staff, headquartered in Northeast Portland, donate to Girl Scouts Beyond Bars. View full sizeCourtesy of U.S.
Fish & Wildlife ServiceFish & Wildlife Service Regional Director Robyn Thorson meets with Girl Scouts during the recent visit. The Bureau of Land Management.
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Yet, for every creative company that commits to doing thrilling things, there are many more dull businesses throttling new ideas. Thiel Fellowship. Make A Difference! Children and Fun with Textile Crafts - All Fiber Arts. Green News, Tips, and Services for saving money, energy and the planet. These top 10 green career guides are the perfect asset to helping you find the perfect green career.
The career guides will help you sort through the green job market by providing information on employment trends, job descriptions, salaries and educational requirements for everything from forestry to green architecture to public policy to renewable energy. If you’re thinking about ways to make a living while making a difference at the same time, you’re sure benefit from these excellent green career resources below.
The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st CenturyBy: The Environmental Careers OrganizationThis guide provides a thorough consideration of environmental trends for the 21st century and the likely impact of those trends on future green career opportunities. 100 Best Green Companies to Work For in Oregon, 2011 - Oregon Business. Ten best companies for working moms. The best companies for working mothers offer good benefit packages.
The best companies often have good benefits for moms who can only work 20 hours a weekTriHealth, whose employees are 83% women, offers extensive child care servicesAt WellStar women earn two thirds of the very highest salaries and oversee most of the profit-and-loss decisions. The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012.