XING - The professional network | XING How to run a problem-solving meeting This is a special sort of get together, similar to the meeting where you organize people to figure out the best way to take advantage of an opportunity. In both cases, amateurs usually run the meetings, and the group often fails to do their best work. Ignore these rules at your peril: Only the minimum number of people should participate. Don't invite anyone for political reasons.
Free Online Invitations and Party Planning with MyPunchbowl Digitas NewFront 2012 An Economist Explains How Fear Drives Productivity Here’s a depressing thought: America’s productivity is rising on the backs of scared office workers. That’s essentially the explanation offered by Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan (JPM), for the 1.6 percent second-quarter gain reported Aug. 8 by the Labor Department. I asked him if there was anything in the data to suggest worker output was being spurred by improvements in technology or other investments—you know, encouraging stuff. He used a process of elimination to bring me back to earth. Finally, there’s “human capital”—knowledge, skills, etc. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates work hours from its Current Employment Statistics survey. The productivity number is calculated by dividing output by hours worked.
Beyond Facebook: 74 Popular Social Networks Worldwide Social networks have popped up all over the web. Businesses often think of the top four social networks — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace — as the only game in town. But there are hundreds around the globe with millions of users who can be targeted via these networks by businesses. Some of these social networks are general interest, some are niche-lifestyle or interest-specific, and others are widely used internationally and have not yet grown in the United States. Businesses can take advantage of very specific markets and demographics by exploring these 76 social networks and targeting their users to grow their brands in new and exciting ways. All social networks listed below have a million users or more. General Interest Networks Facebook. VKontakte home page.VKontakte.
Marketer & Publisher Technology Services | Acceleration What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. You should too. The first hour of the workday goes a bit differently for Craig Newmark of Craigslist, David Karp of Tumblr, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, career writer (and Fast Company blogger) Brian Tracy, and others, and they’ll tell you it makes a big difference. Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour. Tumblr founder David Karp will "try hard" not to check his email until 9:30 or 10 a.m., according to an Inc. profile of him. Not all of us can roll into the office whenever our Vespa happens to get us there, but most of us with jobs that don’t require constant on-call awareness can trade e-mail for organization and single-focus work. Gain Awareness, Be Grateful Choose Your Frog
Eventbrite Developer Resources | APIs & Web Services Why is Christianity the only way? By Michael L. Brown Isn’t it the height of arrogance to claim that the only way people can come into right relationship with God is through Jesus? At first blush, the answer would seem to be yes. Actually, it’s no more arrogant for Christians to say that Jesus is the only way to God than it is for others to say that Jesus is just one way among many — thereby declaring the belief of more than one billion Christians to be wrong. The real question is: On what basis can we claim that Christianity alone brings people into right relationship with God? Generally speaking, all religions recognize that human beings have somehow fallen short and become alienated from the godhead (singular or plural). We must therefore ask on what basis the deity offers forgiveness. What separates Christianity from every other religion is not so much the moral teaching of Jesus, or even the moral example of Jesus, but rather the fact that Jesus, the divine Son, took our place. Michael L.
Why Too Much Data Disables Your Decision Making Quick, think back to a major decision. You know, the kind that compelled you to read everything on a topic and lead you to spend hours devouring every last scrap of data. How'd that work out for you? We like to think that more information drives smarter decisions; that the more details we absorb, the better off we'll be. Knowledge, we're told, is power. That's the question raised by Princeton and Stanford University psychologists in a fascinating study titled On the Pursuit and Misuse of Useless Information. Their experiment was simple. Imagine that you are a loan officer at a bank reviewing the mortgage application of a recent college graduate with a stable, well-paying job and a solid credit history. Group 2 saw the same paragraph with one crucial difference. Here's where the study gets clever. The result? To say the findings are surprising is to state the obvious. The answer underscores a troubling blind spot in the way we make decisions. Remember Seinfeld and Friends?
10 Tips To Hosting Better Events with Social Media Attending those great events over the last week inspired me to share few ways to use social media to spice up your own events. Read on for the goods. Spread the Word Shaherose Charania of Women 2.0 at BizTechDay All three of the events used the web and social media as the cornerstone to their marketing efforts. The blogs were primarily used to communicate up-to-date event details and important additions to the sponsors or speakers list. How to Spread the Word: 1. 2. 3. Use the Social Back-Channel PayPal X iPhone App The team at the PayPal X conference really did what they could encourage their attendees to participate in the social back-channel throughout the event. Twitter has become the default companion medium at conferences. While participating on the SocialBizWorld panel I recall a question from the audience about hashtags (mentioned previously in this post). How to leverage the back-channel: 4. 5. 6. Generate & Repurpose Content How to repurpose great content: 7. 8. 9.
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