August, 2009

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Twitter Tips for Job Seekers

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Friday, August 28, 2009 Twitter Tips for Job Seekers I think most job seekers have gotten the word that they need to integrate social media into their search efforts, but I’m getting a bit alarmed at what some of them are Twittering.

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The Secret of Johnny Depp’s Success

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Photo by nicogenin. Did you realise you probably know Johnny Depp's films better than he does? That's if we can take this interview at face value, where he claims not to have seen his latest movie Public Enemies. Incredulous, the interviewer asks him why not. Here's Johnny's answer: I've always kind of tried to avoid them as much as possible. I just prefer the experience.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Julia Child's Passion Brings.

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Julia Childs Passion Brings Employees Together I recently saw the movie "Julie/Julia," and was so inspired I made Julia Childs roast chicken the next day. While I wont go into details, suffice it to say that it was a hit at my house and my family wants me to now make all my meals with two pounds of butter.

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Holding Your Own Against a Motormouth

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Friday, August 14, 2009 Holding Your Own Against a Motormouth If your strategy is to fly below the radar in meetings, secretly checking messages on your Blackberry or working the crossword puzzle, you may want to re-think your game plan.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Professional Development and Training

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ - transforming video engagement with two-way interactivity. With Qvio viewers can ask questions and get instant answers from the content owner's Author-Controlled AI™️.

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5 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, August 10, 2009 5 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation Are you your own worst enemy? If you dont think so, read this column I wrote for Gannett, and you may just change your mind: Maybe you put countless hours into carefully crafting a resume and cover letter.

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Hugh MacLeod Interviews Hazel Dooney

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Photo by Hazel Dooney. If you liked our interviews with artist-entrepreneurs John T. Unger , Natasha Wescoat and Hugh MacLeod , you should check out Hugh's recent interview with Australian artist Hazel Dooney : 10 Questions for Hazel Dooney. Four years ago, Hazel decided to quit the highly-regarded galleries in Sydney and Melbourne who were representing her and go it alone, organising her own exhibitions and marketing her work direct to collectors online.

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How to Succeed in Hollywood

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Sometimes surfing the web leads to buried treasure. That's how I felt when I found Lateral Action. The tag-line said it all. creativity + productivity = success. It Just Adds Up. My wife and I are real-life Hollywood Producers. Sounds fancy, but folks in our line of work have a pretty simple job description: Producers make stuff. They: CREATE an idea for a movie, TV show, or web content.

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Are You Fit Enough to Sit in Front of a Computer All Day?

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Photo by ChrisL AK. There's an old saying that "the pen's lighter than the spade". Back when going to school was a novelty for families used to toiling on the land, adults said it to children, to encourage them to study hard and make a better (and easier) life for themselves. These days, you don't even need to lift a pen. OK, a computer's heavier than a pen, but you don't need to lift it to work with it.

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Are You Creating the Right Kind of Buzz?

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To keep it simple, we will consider buzz as something people want to and will talk about. The social media phenomenon has lowered the barrier to creating buzz. There are so many tools (most of them are free) out there to today that can help you with that. If you are lucky, you can create a lot of buzz with very little effort. The real question is - "Are you creating the right kind of buzz?".

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Why Solving Other People’s Problems Is Easy

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Photo by amandabhslater. You love your friend, I know that. But it doesn't disguise the fact he's getting on your nerves. Once again, you're sat listening to the same old complaints about the same old problems. You've been round and round in circles with this, many times. Surely the answer is staring him in the face? Isn't it obvious? You've even told him what he needs to do , several times.

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The 6 Degrees of Online Influence

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There are so many articles about how to influence your audience. This article will talk about six degrees of how you may be influenced by consuming online content. Let us look at each one of them below. Ignorant: This is when you lack awareness of the topic of the article. As Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford University, author of "Knowing Doing Gap") put it nicely - "You need to be reasonably competent to know your level of incompetence on a topic.

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Authority Rules: The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing

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If you have any ambitions to use the web to grow your reputation or business, you need to download and devour Brian Clark's new free report: Authority Rules: The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing. Brian is one of the core team members here at Lateral Action, but he's too modest to plug the report here himself ;-) so I'll give you the lowdown.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: What Can We Learn From the Bad Job.

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Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, August 26, 2009 What Can We Learn From the Bad Job Market? An article in todays Wall Street Journal talked about the cycle of "boom and bust" and what we can learn from it in todays economy. (And just for the record, I never invested in more than two -- OK, three -- Beanie Babies, and I never spent more than $100 on a purse.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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T.S. Eliot’s Path to Success

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You have to be absolutely determined, otherwise you might just as well write poetry. (Sir Terence Conran, quoted in The Creative Economy by John Howkins). Terence Conran offers excellent advice to aspiring entrepreneurs, but he obviously has a thing or two to learn about poetry. He seems to think writing poetry is easy compared to building a business, and that most poetry is written by shy, retiring wallflowers with little or no ambition.

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