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Microsoft to Invest in Barnes & Noble’s Nook |
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Microsoft is investing at least $605 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook digital-book business, as the software giant pushes deeper into the e-books business ... [read more] |
Top Kickstarter Project Ever Raises $7 Million |
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Imagine raising $7 million from nearly 50,000 strangers in a matter of weeks. That’s the power of a growing trend toward crowd funding, as demonstrated by ... [read more] |
Honda Using New Technology to Ease Traffic Congestion |
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While most automakers are looking to improve real-time traffic data plumbed into cars and bring smarter rerouting to market, Honda is looking at another way of getting you out of traffic ... [read more] |
U.K. High Court Orders ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay |
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The U.K.’s High Court has ruled that five ISPs in the region must block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay for copyright violations. .. [read more] |
Shelly's Corner
Google Drive: Business with a Single Point of FailureYou could think of Google Drive as Google’s answer to Dropbox or Microsoft’s SkyDrive or any one of a dozen cloud storage systems, but it’s not. ... [read more] |
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Featured Contributing Writer |
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Never Use a Functional Resume
By Richard Sellers
Never means never. I’ve been reviewing resumes for several years for MENG and have never seen a functional resume that was worth considering.A functional resume organizes information by skill sets and accomplishments rather than the more standard specific positions, titles, and reverse chronology... |
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Jeffrey Hayzlett |
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Jeffrey Hayzlett is the former CMO of Eastman Kodak, cowboy and social media celebrity. View Jeffrey's Posts |
Jay Garmon |
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Jay Garmon serves as the Marketing Director for Backupify. He is a professional writer, speaker and technology consultant. View Jay's Posts |
Nancy Hill |
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Nancy Hill is the President-CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. View Nancy's Posts |
Adam Buckman |
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Adam Buckman was a former editor and writer for the NY Post for 18 years and now writes for XfinityTV.com View Adam's Posts |
Hemu Nigam |
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Hemu Nigam is the founder of SSP Blue, the leading advisory firm for online safety, security, and privacy. View Hemu's Posts |
Richard Sellers |
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Richard is chairman emeritus of the nearly 2,000 member Marketing Executives Networking Group. View Richard's Posts |
David Houle |
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David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. He advises companies on developing and future trends. View David's Posts |
Uwe Hook |
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Uwe Hook (@uwehook) is the CEO and Co-Founder of BatesHook, Inc. and a veteran of the advertising and marketing industry. View Uwe's Posts |
Jaffer Ali |
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Jaffer Ali is CEO of Vidsense, the Web's largest video advertising network. View Jaffer's Posts |
Graeme Hutton |
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Graeme Hutton is the SVP, Director of Consumer Insights, at UM, New York and oversees communications research on a number of UM clients including Sony. View Graeme's Posts |
Lance Neuhauser |
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Lance is the CEO and Founder of The Echo System, a social analytics and engagement platform. View Lance's Posts |
Tony Greenberg |
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Tony Greenberg is the CEO of RampRate Sourcing Advisors and DeepStrat View Tony's Posts |
Andrea Syrtash |
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Andrea Syrtash is an author and relationship expert whose newest book is Cheat On Your Husband (With Your Husband) View Andrea's Posts |
Harold Goldberg |
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Harold Goldberg is a videogame journalist and author of All Your Base Are Belong To Us. View Harold's Posts |
Simon Applebaum |
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Simon Applebaum is host/producer of Tomorrow Will Be Televised, the Internet radio/podcast-distributed program about the TV scene. View Simon's Posts |
Jim Nichols |
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Jim Nichols is Senior Partner - Strategy at Catalyst S+F, a marketing services company based in San Francisco. View Jim's Posts |
Charles Warner |
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Until he retired in 2002, he was Vice President of AOL's Interactive Marketing division. View Charles' Posts |
Steve Yanovsky |
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Steve is a marketing and marcom consultant for Customer Focused Solutions. View Charles' Posts |
Peter Vaughan |
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Peter Vaughan is the Director of social media at RBM, a digital marketing agency based in San Francisco. View Peter's Posts |
Levi Shapiro |
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Levi Shapiro is a Professor in the Communications Department at IDC (Herzeliya) and Partner at TMT Strategic Advisors. View Levi's Posts |
Ed Keller |
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Ed Keller, CEO of the Keller Fay Group, has been called "one of the most recognized names in word of mouth." View Ed's Posts |
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