Category Archives: Recommended & Lists

How To Send in Your Resume

Instead of the 2nd part of the Social Media Success Checklist post, I’d like to show you about my favorite resume experience so far. Although we get a lot them, they mostly follow a tediously boring and predictable, template-like pattern. Sometimes people will get creative and add creative touches but for the most part they all follow a predictable, template-like pattern. All of that changed for us last week when we got this from E—-: Please choose from the following responses as I’m trying to plan my future.  Feel free …
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The Reaction That Made Me Think Again

I had initially skipped this presentation when I ran into it a few months ago until I ran into The PowerPoint That Made Me Cry (because I was happy) on ExperienceCurve: Your mileage may vary but some of the themes in this slideshow “happiness as your business model” resonate so deeply with me it literally brought tears to my eyes. In my book, anything strong enough to provoke such a reaction should not be brushed off quickly. Read it and weep. HT: ExperienceCurve Happiness as Your Business Model View SlideShare …
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IMAGES: USPS Usability

The United States Postal Service really impressed me today with their mail forwarding process.  What an example of usability at its finest… thanks USPS for recognizing the value of easy!

My Election Day Arsenal

I wasn’t planning on following the election too closely this year, but I can’t help myself considering the enticing tools available online. So here’s my online election arsenal for the day: I’m using Pollster.com to follow polling data (a couple of other projection sites are covered in Mashable’s 12 Presidential Poll and Electoral Projection Resources) and for twitter eye candy there’s the Election Results According to Twitter. For coverage: Election 2008 on Current tv “Co-hosted by Digg and Twitter, with video from 12seconds.tv, and with a Live DJ set by …
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Thirsty Thursday: I Live to Let You Shine

I Live To Let You Shine from Karen Abad loves Dinosaurs. on Vimeo.

The Ubiquity of Tribes & The Widgets That Track Them

It’s clear the Internet is changing our world as we know it and we’re starting to see a significant shift in the balance of influence. American politics is slowly starting to wake up to this reality and only time will tell where we go from here. But being submersed in the drama of American politics makes it really easy to forget about what’s going on elsewhere. This month’s issue of Wired changes that with a story on what social media’s doing to slowly crack the tightly controlled structure of authority …
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The Wizard behind the Curtain

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” – The Wizard When I think of The Wizard from The Wizard of Oz, I think of a question I remember having even at the age of 6 when I first remember watching this movie.  Why is this man hiding behind the curtain?  Why not just come out and say it himself?  What’s the thinking here? So I’ve pondered just why the Wizard is behind the curtain. I’ve concluded that placing himself behind the curtain offered these probable advantages: spectacular awe-inspiring …
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Design Coding

Hilarious!  I’d like to do one on social media, would be a lot of fun to add some visuals as well…

Jason Fried (37Signals) @ The Business Of Software Conference

[Textless Tuesday] Vint Cerf on the future of the Internet