To Heck with a Grammy, He’s Got a ‘Linkie’

Editor’s note: This is slightly dated, but it’s good and it’s funny. Most of us who are on LinkedIn got sim­i­lar email mes­sages weeks ago. Most of us learned that it may have looked like a hoax, but the email really came from LinkedIn — just some kind of wild mar­ket­ing ploy to get more of us to upgrade and […]

Jobs: Rad Campaign Seeks Web Designer in DC

Rad Cam­paign is hir­ing an Inter­ac­tive Web Designer based in Wash­ing­ton, DC. If
you’re a web designer with at least 3 to 5+ years of pro­fes­sional
expe­ri­ence cre­at­ing a diverse range of web brands that tell pow­er­ful
sto­ries, and inspire peo­ple to get involved and take action, then they want
to hear from you. If you’re look­ing to cre­ate social change for some of the
best non­prof­its and cam­paigns on this planet (UNICEF, Union of Con­cerned
Sci­en­tists, Craig Newmark’s (of craigslists) per­sonal phil­an­thropy project:
craig­con­nects, Hil­lel Inter­na­tional, and a whole lot more) Rad Cam­paign is
the place where you can use your cre­ative and UX skills to change the world.

Writer’s Lifeguard: Sometimes a Curious Notion

By Jules Older Life­guards, I’m about to launch my sec­ond ebook, DEATH BY TARTAR SAUCE: A Travel Writer Encoun­ters Gar­gan­tuan Gators, Irk­some Off­spring, Mur­der­ous May­on­naise & True Love. It came to me the other night that I want to launch it with a party. It came to me just now that it should be an eparty… and that you […]

Key: Personal Branding and Social Networking

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists Febrauary 22. 2010 Job appli­ca­tions are so five min­utes ago. Ask any­one who has spent day after day sub­mit­ting cover let­ters and resumes online to no avail. On the rare occa­sion that you get a call­back, it gen­er­ally leads nowhere. Why? Because they’ve never heard of you. You haven’t mar­keted your­self. If […]

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