Tools & Resources
Favorite Books of Utah Business Leaders
Connect Magazine recently put out their 2007 Reader’s Choice Awards. For many of the 25 people featured, they each listed an answer to the question:
“Which book has had the greatest impact on your leadership style”
I thought a compilation of their answers might be interesting: When page loads completely, the links below will take you to [...]
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Top 5 Ways Smart People Use Twitter
Sharon Sarmiento at 901am put together a great piece on the five cool ways smart people are using Twitter. Its good to see a small list of how peopele are leveraging Twitter, the hyper-short (140 character) micro-communication platform, can do (and avoiding what it doesn’t do).
Its great that Sarmiento starts out with the obligatory [...]
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Calendar: Personal Branding Summit - Free Nov. 8 2007
Got a phone?
Get registered for an incredible Personal Branding teleconference happening Thursday (two days from when I am writing this) and includes an incredible lineup of speakers from all over the world.
This conference is FREE, but you must register, and then get on the phone during the section you want to learn.
From the website:
To [...]
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Calendar: Blogging for Business Conference Monday
The Blogging for Business conference will be next Monday. Click below to see the Rocky Mountain Voices vidcast with Matt Reinbold and Brad Baldwin
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Come one, Come all to Facebook… except you… and you… and…
Yeah, I know this is old news, but when Facebook puts up a tool asking you to import your Gmail contacts, and then BANS YOU for doing exactly that… something’s gotta be said.
Harry Joiner, the Marketing Headhunter, was banned for doing just what Facebook said. Maybe it’s because he’s a “recruiter” (boo, hiss) and [...]
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hCard Embedded in New Email Signature
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I updated my work email signature and felt a little saucy and embedded my hCard information right into the HTML. (Yes, the Unix users out there who only read plain-text emails won’t see it).
hCard is a microformat, a way to encode certain pieces of human-readable information with machine-readable meta-data to allow computers and [...]
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LinkedIN: ‘I’m Gonna Have to Block You’
Asking people to join your network may be hazardous to your (network’s) health.
Recently, LinkedIn, the granddaddy of all business social networkins sites, added some good features, trying to help people get and keep connected. I am strongly in favor of LinkedIn, and I am glad they made some changes to keep up with the pack… [...]
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EVENT: Speaking on Mid-Career Development at PLUG Wed. 8-7
Wednesday this week, I am speaking on Mid-Career Development at the Provo Linux User’s Group, which meets at United Online in Orem (directions, etc).
Date: Wednesday Aug 8, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: United Online
PLUG:
This month we have a unique guest presenter coming to PLUG. Robert Merrill from SOS Technical is coming to address the group. Robert is [...]
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Network With Meaning
Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles has had enough with the newest, shiniest social networks clamoring for his attention:
People invite me to services all the time. They want to connect to me on LinkedIn, Twitter, FaceBook. I appreciate that anyone cares and I get a little warmth from the sentiment. I’m not joining anything that [...]
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