A great book by Marshall Goldsmith outlines 20 often-unconscious habits that can damage your relationship with colleagues, family, or people that work with you closely. These traits can often also impact careers and opportunities for promotion as they put you in negative light despite hard work, devotion or talents that could make you [...]
Being in the flow of development can be both satisfying and energizing as days and nights of excited work pile into months and series of great projects. Yet getting used to the stress and pressure of oncoming work can seriously limit ones ability to see outside the stream. Just as driving at high speeds narrows one’s focus into a smaller area to boost reflexes and reaction times, sinking into fast paced projects can rarely allow a good view of the big picture.
Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, bloggers, YouTube, and many of the other pillars of attention online gain their strength because of tapping several major representations of curiosity online:
1. Need for Attention: seeking of action and reaction. From pokes to blog posts, odd status messages, Video posts, and profile pictures many strive to be noticed. Knowing that [...]
Guess what are the three things in common between e-mail, snail mail, blogging, social networking, computer games, games period, tabloids, sports, You Tube, and successful advertising? (Playing Jeopardy tune here)…
Not to keep you guessing for too long, here are the top answers:
1. All of them, worldwide, attract a significant amount of attention
2. All of them, worldwide, suck in enormous amounts of time
3. All of them, worldwide, feed off of our insatiable curiosity and need for feedback
Now, even though we all know curiosity has nothing to do with dead cats (most of the time), it has everything to do with wastes of time and making of money. That is why this article strives to unveil some of the origins and applications of the above-mentioned phenomenon.
If you want to stay current with web matters, but have no time to explore all opportunities this list is for you. The categories below will be updated with the most interesting sources in each category to match your favorite style of learning. Enjoy!
1. Relevant Web Sites, Articles and Blogs
There are brilliant collections of knowledge [...]
FACT: The Internet is powerful playground for Advertising, Marketing, Retail, Software Companies, Media, Entertainment, Travel and any other industry worth speaking of.
FACT: The development of the World Wide Web and the user experience behind it is entrusted to groups of individuals who follow a set of shared standards of professionalism, raise the bar to social [...]
Here is a common problem: barriers to learning. Whether we’re talking about the walls between design and development or development and engineering or crossovers between many other web related disciplines, we are talking about walls. We are in the Web 2.0 era and everybody wants to learn a little bit, and sometimes a lot [...]
Today, out of the blue, a layoff at a company I know sent 13 very smart and successful people out to the job market.
Layoffs are normal, the job market takes and gives and, often enough, being sacked benignly may be one of the best things that ever happened to you. All of your former colleagues [...]
An interesting Google search today revealed that the first post I wrote for this blog had been replicated 100% without credit or links on a host news site. If you’re curious, or just feel like writing a good hosting post and you wonder where it would end up, run a google search on any phrase [...]
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