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Content Curation as Source of Content Marketing Don't have enough time each day to create original content? Well, you're not alone.
Here are 11 key steps to follow for writing and publishing a book — even if you don't think you have the time to do either.
Career course for academics. Find alternatives to traditional tenure track. @adelinekoh is corporate world all evil? There are lots of options.
In case you haven't been following my tell-all confessional — I mean Twitter feed — lately, I've been in Manhattan for the last few weeks.
"Kids these days, they can be so cruel." But I think this is just a phrase we toss around to excuse ourselves from facing the truth. Because I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. (RT @EmilyKnits: Beautiful.
But when you’re taking those first steps towards entrepreneurship, there’s one crucial step you want to be very careful you don’t overlook. Unfortunately, it’s a step most people do overlook, much to their regret.
Scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed today, clicking through links to watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s "last speech," and read his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail, I was inspired once again, not only by his eloquent words but by the words of my...
Looking back over the blog posts I've written in the past twelve months, more than a few things surprise me: First, and maybe most surprising, is that I actually kept my commitment to write and post something on this blog once a week.
Given the work that I do, I'm a sucker for skill lists. As our work worlds grow ever more complex and challenging, it seems that the skills themselves become more complex too. Increasingly, though, I've begun to believe that these...
I've had a lot of conversations with people about the choices they face in their lives. We can spend hours trying to get clarity, trying to narrow choices and get to the heart of things. Days, weeks, months, even years...
The intention of my previous post was not to raise your blood pressure. I know that by mid-November you are overwhelmed. You’re right in the thick of teaching. You have mid-term assignments coming in to be marked and returned. You’re still doing all the regular preparation. Students are coming to see you about difficulties they are having.
Small business success: what are you doing to make it happen right now?
In my experience, when it comes to career, there are two kinds of courage. The first is the courage it takes to pick yourself up after you've fallen. This is the courage to make a career change or find a...
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This is the Diigo Group for the Social Artist Virtual Knowledge Cafe, starting Feb. 20, 2012. We are collecting information and resource that will help us explore what it means to be a social artist and how to put this into practice.
For years, we've had "Take Your Child to Work Day." But lately, as I listen to people talk about the false selves they bring to jobs that feel pointless, I'm thinking that we need another day--"Take YOURSELF to Work Day."...
Is research part of your job? Or your hobby?
...and Intercultural Communication is Marketing. As Intercultural Professionals, my colleagues and I often think of marketing as something outside of our scope of expertise, not to mention our comfort zones.
This is Part One in a series of three articles outlining how you can bring up profits by addressing the various costs and expenses associated with doing business As a small business owner working from home or a one-person office, maybe even a two or three-person office, profit is a big deal. The problem is, when you are small your ability to absorb potential issues that cost and be very, very low.
Blog post at Birds on the Blog : Having more energy is on just about everyone’s holiday wish list.
Accountabilty is the willingness to acknowledge that we have participated in creating, through comission or ommision, the conditions that we wish to see changed.
As we adapt to an ever-changing world, I've come to believe that a necessary career management skill is the ability to create your own job. Whether it's work you do for a company or work you do on your own,...
This weekend, I went on a retreat with 10 other women to reflect on our experiences in 2011 and plan for what we wanted to do in 2012. It was a fabulous experience that I'll be writing more about. One...
Most people expect it to be difficult to adjust to living in a foreign country, so they prepare themselves and expect to experience some degree of culture shock. But most of us expect returning home to our own culture to be relatively easy.
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