LinkedIn Link-Love

There’s a lot going on out there about LinkedIn, the check-your-personality-at-the-door social networking site for business-types.
Here’s a few key take-aways for you:

The New York Times today speaks about LinkedIn’s recent influx of capital, and the benefits the site has in being a decidedly-stuffy site for networking among professionals:
“LinkedIn gives professionals, even the most [...]

Wild, Wild… Google

Google ads, those little bits of advertising text that litter the internet, have made some people a lot of money.  I run the ads on this site to offset the costs of hosting, but others have made a living off both placing ads, and buying the “little tiny classified ads” from G$$gle.
And, more and more [...]

Know Someone? Get an iPod Nano Video

Now you can get one of these just for helping a friend or colleague get a job with us:

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Women Who Negotiate Salaries are ‘Less Nice’?

MSNBC’s Shankar Vedantam notes in an article published today that research shows men are more aggressive than women in asking for a raise, which some may say is common-sense. However, some other very interesting things come out of the article, and, from the perspective of someone who is tasked with making hiring and firing [...]

Bozofication Alive and Well: Utah Companies Will Pay for Stupidity

UPDATE: Please leave comments about BOZO things you have experienced at your or other companies! Anonymous submissions OK
I hate to say it, but I am seeing some of the most foolish and downright stupid things coming from Utah companies these days. These things may not be approaching the Yee-Haw ‘Bozofication’ problems that Guy [...]

Calendar: Tech@Breakfast April 20th

I just met Jeremy Neilson, Venture Manager of the Utah Fund of Funds. If you’re a Utah entrepreneur or a VC/Private Equity Investor, I suggest you contact him right away, if you don’t know him.

On the Fund of Funds Website, I noticed that there will be a Tech@Breakfast on April 20th that may be [...]

Happiness Can Make You Rich?

Listening to the Power of Full Engagement this morning, I jotted down the following concerning developing a deep sense of purpose, and deriving happiness from it.

“Income… doesn’t noticeably influence satisfaction with marriage, family, friendship or ourselves, all of which do predict a sense of well-being.
In turn, happiness has been clearly associates with higher productivity.
In short, [...]

This Can’t Be Happening

I found out yesterday of a company in the Salt Lake City area trying to save a few bucks by not paying someone for their first week of work… by calling it "training" instead.
Of course, this was not discussed in any way with the employee in their offer letter or in ay other way. 
Of [...]

Utah wage growth outpaces the nation

Salt Lake Tribune: Average weekly wages in Utah increased faster in the first quarter of 2006 than elsewhere in the nation, underscoring the state’s economic health and shedding light on its unique population structure.

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Compare Salaries By Location

I am still jiving over Indeed’s new tool for Salary Search.
I was just mashing up some results when I realized the tool nicely allows comparison of salary among localities, or globally (as far as Indeed’s system is concerned, anyway).
I started comparing my local market (Utah) to the Indeed global market, not suprized to find us [...]