The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That’s a Good Thing Editor’s note: Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder of Unrabble, a hiring software solution for small- to medium-sized businesses, especially startups. You can follow Unrabble at @unrabble. I was recently going through an old banker’s box that I packed up years ago while I was cleaning out my office. There was a Palm Pilot, a mini cassette recorder, and even a stack of floppy disks. It was like a time capsule of obsolete technology. Every gadget I found in that box had evolved or been replaced by some new innovation. It baffles me how the lifecycle of so many products and business processes can be extremely short and are so easily disrupted by innovation, yet an individual’s resume is still a one or two page document. Maybe the answer is that the change is actually underway but we just don’t realize it’s happening. Shifting from a traditional resume to an on-line profile presents a huge opportunity for improving the hiring process for both the candidate and employer.
It is possible to understand Engineers - Where there's a will, there's a way. Understanding Engineers #1 Two engineering students were biking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice, The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway." Understanding Engineers #2 To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Understanding Engineers #3 A priest, an ophthalmologist, and an engineer were golfing one morning behind a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with those guys? The doctor chimed in,"I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!" The priest said, "Here comes the greens keeper. He said, "Hello, George. The greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes. They were silent for a moment.
7 Basic Types of Stories: Which One Is Your Brand Telling? Droga5 turned Prudential's retirement story from rags-to-riches into one of rebirth. You think you're being all clever and original with your brand storytelling. In fact, you're not. TBWA's global creative president, Rob Schwartz, led the discussion, which was based around author Christopher Booker's contention, in his book Seven Basic Plots, that seven archetypal themes recur in every kind of storytelling. Below are the seven basic plots—with examples from art and advertising of stories that fit each one. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Schwartz suggested the seven plots can provide a blueprint for figuring out what a brand story should be when there isn't one, or isn't a strong one. "Ads most often are 'The husband's dumb, the wife fixes it, now he's better,' " said Royer. At the core of every brand, Royer added, is a good story waiting to happen. "Brands are stories," he said. A new wrinkle in the digital age is the hijacking of brand stories.
Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology | Etsy News Marc Hedlund is VP of Engineering at Etsy. He has managed engineers in Internet companies from coast to coast, and is currently writing a book for O’Reilly Media on engineering management. Today, in conjunction with Hacker School, Etsy is announcing a new scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we’ll be hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters, and we’re providing ten Etsy Hacker Grants of $5,000 each — a total of $50,000 — to women who want to join but need financial support to do so. Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry. Women in Engineering I’ve been an engineering manager in the Internet industry for 17 years, in the Bay Area and now in New York City. Last September, three out of 96 employees in Engineering and Operations at Etsy were women, and none of them were managers. Hacker School
Sex and the Spiritual Christian (1 Cor. 7:1-7 Introduction After the second or third message, a friend informed us that one of the men had walked out during the meeting in protest. Craig and I were shocked. What had we said that was so offensive? We were told that we were talking too much about sex. If you think about it, you will have to agree that sex is a subject frequently addressed in the Scriptures, both Old Testament and New. The beliefs and practices of the Corinthian saints seem to vary greatly when it comes to matters of sexual values and conduct. In our text, it seems that for some believers spirituality is a pretext for sexual immorality, while for others spirituality means abstaining from sex altogether. The Corinthian Error and the Culture of that Day In the matter of sexual conduct, the Corinthians live in a very troubled world, not unlike the world of our own day. Prostitution was an essential part of Greek life. The Roman sexual ethic was no better: But at the time of Paul, Roman family life was wrecked.
Storytelling: Jak ho začlenit do obsahové strategie | Včeliště.cz Příběhy prodávají. To je fakt. Pokud si myslíte, že vaši zákazníci jsou lačni po extra dlouhých, popisných textech bez hlubší obsahové strategie, tak jste na omylu. Vtáhněte je do příběhu. Není na tom nic složitého. Pravděpodobně už nějakou značku, kterou chcete propagovat, máte. Není to sprint, ale spíš dálkový maraton. Já vím, dokážu si teď představit vaše reakce. „Nečetl jsem už někdy něco, co mě samotného ohromilo? Právě že šel. Značku už máte, příběh připravený také. Příklad: Kamarádka mi nedávno vyprávěla příběh, jak ji poprvé v životě okradli. „…v metru si mě fotila nějaká ženská a strašně úchylně se na mě usmívala. Celý příběh dopadl tak, že v Paládiu kamarádku okradli o nový Iphone, protože v metru psala smsku a zlodějka tímto způsobem přeposílala tipy svým komplicům do obchodního centra. Shrnutí a ponaučení: Pokud začnete článek nějakou zvláštní událostí, čtenář těžko odolá nečíst dál. Jsem člověk, který miluje data. Příběhy mají větší sílu, než si myslíte. Prodávám skvělé auto.
May Day Updates | Tech For a Global Early Childhood Education Wow, Tech for Global Early Childhood Education has really taken flight! I can’t believe it’s already been over a month since I launched it. There have been over 3,850 hits to the site and educators from New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, the U.S. and many other countries have visited these pages! Thanks to everyone who has visited or contributed to the site so far. I hope the website will continue to be shared around the globe. What’s New? There are now a number of funding resources on the Ideas to Action page to help teachers find the money or the hardware to provide their students with the technology needed to enable global learning experiences. A few new projects have also been added to the Current Projects page. Collaborate and Share Resources with Other Educators! If you currently use technology in your classroom and know of specific technology tools for teachers or young children to facilitate global learning and exchange, please share them via this Google Form. Like this:
Celebrating Celibacy | Biblical reasons There are many references in the Bible that very wisely tell us to refrain from sexual immorality and fornication (sex outside of marriage). Just a few of those warnings can be found in: Leviticus 20: 10-21Acts 15:20Colossians 3:5 Proverbs 5: 3-81 Corinthians 6: 9, 13, 151 Thessalonians 4: 3-8 Proverbs 7: 21-27Galatians 5:9Hebrews 13:4 Any sermon that teaches about sexual conduct might well focus on some of the above teachings and examples. However, there are other much neglected parts of the Bible that explain quite clearly that marriage is actually not the ultimate ideal for those who can control their sexual urges or indeed those who do not have sexual urges at all. In focussing on marriage as the ultimate Christian ideal to strive for, many have neglected some extremely important warnings, particularly those below, as spoken by Saint Paul: “It is good for a man not to marry” (1 Corinthians 7:1)“To the unmarried and widows I say: it is good for them to stay unmarried as I am.
Five writing tips that can double your salary Kindergarten Students in Indonesia and Japan Leverage Technology to Collaboratively Write Story | Exploring Digital Media in Education This past fall my class and I participated in a Progressive Story. The basic idea behind project was that 4 classes would collaborate virtually to create a story. The project creators chose a wiki for the shared writing space. Starting our progressive story. As each subsequent class added their section the story grew and took many interesting twists and turns. Both my students and I enjoyed this project but it left me wanting more. I knew I needed a teacher who was willing to try something completely new and who wasn’t afraid to use technology in a way that was new and exciting. Since our classes were already Twitter friends we decided to capitalize on this and let the kids start conversing about the project using this medium. Skyping with our friends in Japan. Our classes decided that we should meet “face to face” via Skype before we began. To begin our class sat down at the Smartboard and used the G-doc as a space to brain storm ideas. How will we share the story?