A few of us have been talking about social networking tools and the importance of having a network. In some cases, people’s networks are even a business asset.
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge takes a look at venture capitalists (VCs) and how their networks influence funding decisions.
Harvard Business School’s publication Working Knowledge has a discussion about annual performance reviews. The initial short article mentions GE’s system of ranking employees, then asks some questions. The 93 comments provide a range of experiences with reviews.
I have been in multiple places on the performance review scale. I’ve worked for a manager who gave very [...]
I had another moment of brilliance recently regarding this weblog. I’d been trying to figure out how to get new comment notification now that e-mail has been disabled on the server. The scratchpad used to e-mail me comments. Now, it can’t.
I had been thinking about something more technically sophisticated than I am, possibly involving a [...]
I had one of those “Aha!” moments on the scratchpad. While combating the latest round of comment spam (almost 1000 spam since mid November and it’s coming in at a rate of about 100 per day right now {Ugh!}), I found a widget where I should be able to update some information for members of [...]
The Guardian published some interviews with many of the people behind technologies often lumped together under the term Web 2.0, like del.icio.us‘ Joshua Schacter, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, and Technorati’s David Sifry.
(I meant to blog this Monday, but, well, I was a little preoccupied with baking projects, I guess, and I forgot. Kim even reminded me to [...]
Steven Cohen blogs temporary e-mail address services for those times when people need to use an e-mail address, but don’t want to use their own. How many times do we wish we didn’t have to give up an e-mail address just to use a Web site, read a newspaper, etc.?
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I know, I know. Some of you are going to dislike me for writing about the death of a pet. My book group even has a rule about reading books where animals die or get harmed. But after some consideration, I think it’s appropriate that I mention the death of Dewey Readmore Books, a 19-year-old [...]
I saw this post on Library Stuff called I’m Scared. Hold Me., so I followed the link and found a post about librarians who blog.
"There’s an ENTIRE SUBCULTURE OF LIBRARIANS WHO BLOG out there. A sad, bizarre subculture. … LIBRARIANS. Who BLOG. What in the HELL could they have to BLOG about??"
What’s even cooler is [...]