Yes, for a moment I was seriously thinking about having supper at Dunkin Donuts.
Category: general
‘Unresponsiveness reflects badly on a brand’
It’s a good time to strengthen my personal brand. Here’s a good, timeless tip:
“The fundamentals of making a name for yourself and standing apart from the competition are simple and, one would assume, basic common sense. So it comes as no surprise that one of the biggest, all-time, don’t-even-go-there no-nos of business branding is…being unresponsive.”
(via beneath the brand)
‘Remember well the outdoor smoking circle’
The lost art of gathering business narratives.
“Today, if I were looking for content for the intranet or the Web, I’d be asking myself every time one of those smokers told a story, ‘Is this a video? Is this a blog post? Is there an infographic in there?’”
(via flack me)
Can the Middle Class Be Saved?
The Great Recession has accelerated the hollowing-out of the American middle class. And it has illuminated the widening divide between most of America and the super-rich. Both developments herald grave consequences. Here is how we can bridge the gap between us.
Read our September cover story at The Atlantic
(Source: http://theatlantic.com/magazine)
There’s more new census data out and, as Jonathan Cohn writes, “one in six Americans are extremely poor. … If you want to find a year when the poverty rate was significantly higher, you have to go all the way back to the early 1960s, before enactment of the Great Society.”
Read more, here.
Courtesy of the AtlanticWire
5 Ways to Revamp Your Resume
1. Remove Dates from Your Education
2. Focus on Recent Relevant Experience
3. Focus on New Technologies
4. Get Online and Get Connected
5. Give Your Resume a Personal Voice
(via monster)
*cringe* I think I’ve done a couple of these.
Apparently it’s easier to stop smoking…
… than it is to quit social media. Or at least it’s on the same level of unhealthiness.
So, given the choice between social media and cigarettes… um… pass me the cigarettes and lighter please.
The craftsmanship of the frame is just as important as the subject of the illustration. I ache with the desire to be illustrating work like this.
Wall Street Journal features @CraggieBrewing in Monday’s article, “Where the Action Is.”
Asheville, a Blue Ridge Mountain town of 75,000, has 10 breweries, with two on the way. That can’t compare with the 40 in Portland, Ore., but it stacks up to other beer havens like Milwaukee and Boulder, Colo., which both have fewer than a dozen. “Asheville is definitely on the map and well recognized in the craft-brewing industry,” says Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association in Boulder.
(via WSJ)
College students aren’t good at using Google
Sarah Kessler covers a study on students poor research habits.
“I don’t really know what there is to use,” said one first year accounting major who participated in the study. “I know there are books but I don’t really know how to find them. Really the only thing I know how to do is go to Google and type in what I’m looking for.”
A first year math student offered an alternate explanation: “I’m lazy and I use the Internet.”
(via mashable)
I don’t know where to begin my comment on this research study.
Less than 60 miles NW from Mineral, Va (where the earthquakes originated) is Virginia’s hotbed for hydraulic fracturing: a method of creating earthquakes to extract natural gas.
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence though…
http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DGO/documents/HydraulicFracturing.shtml
Interesting observation. Thanks.
Just realized… it has been two weeks since I drank a cup of coffee. How have I survived?
Found in a kitchen frequented by our Daily Charts team. Those chaps really love their work.
Confession
Confession: My social media habits have been somewhat existential these past few weeks. Not because of a sense of self-importance, but due in part to allocating time and resources to non-online activities. In other words, I post content, but infrequently return to see if someone has commented or ‘liked’ something I post. I know in the social media world this is considered ‘unsocial’ behavior. It is not my intent to be unfriendly. Sometimes I just need some space and time away from technological and social media to avoid overload.
Considering the amount of shade, I am amazed the garden has done as well as it has. (Taken with instagram)
(Source: http://instagr.am/p/I6AlU/)
#belechere #avlent Sanctum Sully plays the Coxe stage.
Coffeehouse Junkie 