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The #TChat collaborative communication car pool fast lane

I got the invite to Chill with someone. And that’s when it hit me: there’s just too much information, too many content curation tools, too many sharing tools, too many communications tools that don’t really help me communicate. Whirlwind. Zoom. Zis-boom-ba. Turn the fire hose off and get me a real drink. Sure, early adopters [...]

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Play Devil’s Advocate: Create Collaboration in the Workplace

I’m currently taking a course called Media Criticism where we students reflect on how news organizations responded to major historical events. Perhaps made obvious by the title, our main focus is geared towards moments where journalism has “failed” society, or more precisely, failed to practice critical thinking and challenge the norm. What’s surprising is that [...]

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Recap: Best Practices – HR/Recruiting Tech & Software

A funny thing happened on the way to the #TChat:  I found a new career and home at Ventana Research. The irony is that on the night that we discuss best practices in evaluating, purchasing & implementing HR/Recruiting technology & software, I had a business dinner to attend. (wink) But hey, you had one of [...]

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#TChat Recap: Higher Ed? It’s the degree “of” experience, not the either “or”

Remember in the 1970′s when the tech world was still in its infancy and engineers and developers walked in off the streets without college degrees? And then again in the late 1990′s during the dot.com boom if you had any Web HTML experience and a pulse? Ah, the good ol’ days when demand exceeded supply. [...]

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HireFriday: A Culture. A Community.

People ask me all the time, why did I create #HireFriday? I thought FollowFriday outlived its usefulness. I realized it would be better to take the time and energy we invest in promoting our gainfully employed friends, and put that energy into helping an unemployed person instead. What started out as a lonely tweet: “Instead of FollowFriday, let’s tweet HireFriday and put our friends and family members back to work; has mushroomed into a movement that now spans the globe.

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