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Friday Video Funnies: Healthy Americans Against Health Care »

For anyone who’s ever sat in a marketing brainstorming meeting where the ideas fly fast and furious, this one’s for you. So well done, you’ll think it’s practically a documentary!
 
My favorite part? The creaky, hoary threat of SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!
(Transparency alert: As a solopreneur who is dependent on her spouse’s heath insurance AND who has paid full-fare [...]

What’s Your “Google Quotient?” Calculate your GQ Star Power! »

Me? I’m “digitally distinct!” Woo-hoo. See … ?

Means my Google Quotient, my personal online brand is well, distinct. I’m a major GQ contender. Wonderful, something else I fear to lose if I don’t work hard enough. Sheesh. The pressure.
Calculate your own self-worth personal brand ID online right here.
Don’t hate me ‘cos I’m digital. The girl [...]

Don’t Be Evil - Don’t Ask Potential Hires to Work for Free »

photo credit: rockmixer
This made me so mad.
Here’s an excerpt from WSJ.com, What Won’t You Do for a Job? (I’ve bolded the salient points):
“Consider William “Tommy” Rollins, a digital marketing analyst laid off when Circuit City Stores Inc. liquidated in January. He soon met Brent Peterson, founder of InterviewAngel, a professional guide and toolkit offering interviewing [...]

Copywriting Maven - Didn’t She Used to Blog or Something? »

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Nearly every day for the past month or so I made a plan to blog.
Great ideas jotted down everywhere on little bits of paper or printed out in big piles around my desk. Then work would rear its hungry little head and I’d have to obey. (It’s a recession out there, remember?)
I [...]

Hi-Tech, Low-Humor: My Son’s ITouch App Collection »

Every once in a while I purchase or read about a nifty new tech gadget and I think about my dad. He died in 1975 and loved everything technology.
We had a color TV in 1959, before there even was color broadcasting.
We had push-button phones while the rest of the world was still using circular dials.
An [...]