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Let's do Launch

Family – "I will take my children to nice places to eat. No Chili's, no chains unless they are local, no fast foods. These restaurants will be rated on toddler tolerance (she will be required to behave), breastfeeding tolerance ( I'll do my best to be discreet), highchair/changing table accessibility, and the ability of the waitstaff to serve a tired m

Submitted and Voted for on April 16, 2007 04:36pm

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Year of the New Online Job Search

Careers & Jobs – "In order to keep up with the growth and to best serve all parties involved, a new type of online job search is needed; one that best allows candidates and companies to communicate, one that enables quiet working professionals to conduct truly anonymous searches, and one that creates a clear picture of the job market for candidates and gives c

Submitted and Voted for on March 01, 2007 04:17pm

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The Power of Widgets, According to IBM and Google

Gadgets & Tech – "The enterprise network is monetized differently, wherein all its users receive a paycheck to participate. To a great extent, the market economics required to generate widgets (with the Darwinist elimination of many failed concepts along the way, at no real cost to the network) can't exist on the enterprise network. In-house IT can only create

Submitted and Voted for on March 01, 2007 03:14pm

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Number of Job Haters on the Rise

Careers & Jobs – "A recent survey conducted by Conference Board's Consumer Research Center revealed that more Americans are fed up with their jobs than perhaps ever before, as less than 39% of those surveyed were satisfied with their current employment. Determining factors for "job-hate" include everything from age (workers under 25 are the least sat

Submitted and Voted for on February 28, 2007 03:49pm

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SOA - Almost As Good As Dovetail

Gadgets & Tech – "For the owner of a ClarifyÃ;¢ââ;¬Å¾Ã;¢ system, the path is simpler, less politically complex, and branded by name: Dovetail Software. The headache disappears with proposing adoption of Dovetail CRM applications, because they're specifically designed eithe

Submitted and Voted for on February 28, 2007 03:07pm

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Breaking Down the Recruiter Bill of Rights (Part 10)

Careers & Jobs – "There's no question that much of that tirade is justified. There are recruiters that simply don't do their jobs well, just as in any industry. However, a skilled recruiter can make a candidate's search faster, easier, and more effective. Candidates have the right to demand respect when respect is warranted, and talented recruiters should have

Submitted and Voted for on February 27, 2007 04:19pm

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Daylight Savings Time (DST) Impacts Clarify Database (and Rest of World)

Gadgets & Tech – "Those who have called Daylight Savings Time a folly from the beginning may snicker at the Congressional decision to alter the dates, but those who have anything to do with software aren't laughing. Changing the dates of the Daylight Savings Time active period, for the first time in decades, will throw a lot of clocks out of sync."

Submitted and Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:38pm

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Assessing Your Skills to Stay Ahead

Careers & Jobs – "So, how do you remain competitive when the field continues to grow? The same Marketwatch article highlights several steps that American workers can take to better secure their current positions or to land in a job they want. One of the most interesting points they make is that you must constantly ask questions."

Submitted and Voted for on February 26, 2007 04:47pm

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Weatherproofing Customer Service and Support

Gadgets & Tech – "Within the field of CRM, customer service and support (CS&S) often shows itself to be a fair weather friend: when the storm hits, the system fails. The recent customer experience delivered by Jet Blue, stranding travelers in storm conditions, has received significant deconstruction in the industry, in part because the airline has been not

Submitted and Voted for on February 26, 2007 02:18pm

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The Adventures of Job Boy (Part V: Information Underload)

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Submitted and Voted for on February 23, 2007 04:29pm

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CRM 2007: On-Premise, On-Demand, and Services Everywhere -Part 3

Gadgets & Tech – "Underneath it all, of course, is software, which is ever evolving. The advent of small services is the great force massaging and challenging the monolithic installation into reinvention, integration, and ultimate efficiency. Everything points to the users as individuals, either the agents facing the case-open end consumers, or the customers t

Submitted and Voted for on February 23, 2007 02:40pm

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Job Hoppers Unite!

Careers & Jobs – "While it might be nice to walk into a potential employer and demonstrate your undying loyalty and your ability to work at one place for decades, it's simply not an option for many of us anymore. While some (we said some) recruiters deride the job hopping candidates of the world, it's important to realize that the corporate landscape and the c

Submitted and Voted for on February 22, 2007 04:37pm

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CRM 2007: On-Premise, On-Demand, and Services Everywhere (Part 2)

Gadgets & Tech – "The mushrooming SaaS industry likes to think of itself as the main driver of the sea change occurring within enterprise CRM, but there are several forces at work, all of which could be embraced by the concept of evolving software. The software underlying SaaS - not simply SaaS's ease of distribution and consumption - is what makes its market

Submitted and Voted for on February 22, 2007 01:32pm

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Hook, Line, and Sinker: Job Candidates Targeted for Phishing Scams

Careers & Jobs – "Phishing is no longer relegated to fake credit card offers and emails from phony bankers. We're now forced to deal with scam postings that look pretty much like the other listings on the big boards. While these opportunities may appear legitimate, it's important to remember that there's certain information you should never give to a "pot

Submitted and Voted for on February 21, 2007 05:09pm

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CRM 2007: On-Premise, On-Demand, and Services Everywhere (Part 1)

Gadgets & Tech – "Software-as-a-Service, SaaS, is driving - or perhaps riding shotgun with - an enormous, sea change in CRM. The model of "monolithic business function and application" is being broken down into smaller transaction sets and granular processes. The model is using easy-to-build interoperable services that further empower the customer-fa

Submitted and Voted for on February 21, 2007 02:17pm