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Recycling Is A Good Thing, But Not When Paying Full Price For Fall

I’ve held off on my yearly fall wardrobe purchases this year because, frankly, I’m unimpressed. I’ve been holding out, hoping that with the coming of fall, I might see something that catches my eye.
I planned on delivering to you a “fall primer” buying guide for sometime, but I’ve realized that this is not going to [...]

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Death By Acute PowerPoint Poisoning

While working on a new presentation this week, I’m reminded of a comment a former boss of mine made while I was creating PowerPoint slides for her presentation. As we were discussing the project she asked me to help her avoid “death by acute PowerPoint poisoning.” After we both briefly chuckled, she explained to me [...]

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Social Media Can Help You Get Hired

Numbers out today show that 45% of employers surveyed use social media sites as a way to screen job candidates. I’m sure this is true for other types of perspective business relationships as well (i.e., business to business).
When survey results like these are released, it is typical to focus on the negative. Yes, we know [...]

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Pushing Through The Pain & Why I Hate July

Everyone has pain. We have situations in our lives that can make it difficult to function. It varies for all of us. For some it maybe a difficult family situation for others a learning disability or a simple but crippling lack of confidence. Whatever your Achilles Heel is I’m sure you know exactly what I’m [...]

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Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Tweet Anymore

My how the internet moves fast. We can barely keep up. Yesterday there was every indication that Facebook wanted to move in on our favorite little Twitter bird. It now seems they mean sooner rather than later.
Late last night, news broke that Facebook was launching “Facebook Lite.” No one knows exactly what it is, but [...]

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