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Brandon Laughridge is an ambitious guy: he wants to work with Seth Godin this summer and he’s set up a web site, SethsFavoriteIntern.com, in pursuit of that goal. Brandon read my post about Seth’s internship then contacted me and asked if I’d be willing to comment on his efforts. I said I’d be [...]
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Adobe has just released Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editor. First things first–this is not Photoshop CS3 in your browser. It’s a simpler tool designed to handle the majority of image editing tasks for the majority of snapshooters. Photoshop pros Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski have a good overview of it [...]
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Timothy Ferriss, author of the infamous The 4-Hour Workweek, was interviewed on the iinnovate podcast last summer. If you’ve been on the fence about whether to read the book, take 30 minutes and listen to this interview. Ferriss discusses
The diminshing returns most workers face (the "results by volume" approach)
Time management and personal [...]
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Since we just talked about this on Monday night in the New Media class, I’m posting a link to Problogger.net. Darren Rowse has a good primer on setting direct advertising rates.
How Much Should I Charge for My Advertising Space?
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Nate saw Seth Godin’s post, “Why bother having a resume?” and asked the following question:
…do you really need a “Beautiful Resume Design” to cover up for your lack of effectiveness or are you just asking to get rejected by taking lots of time to “stand out from the rest” who will probably get [...]
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Public relations (PR) in the world of new media (blogging, podcasting) doesn’t work the same as it has for the print world. When you did something noteworthy in the old days, you’d write up a press release and send it to the relevant media outlets: newspapers, radio, TV, etc. That doesn’t work [...]
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Making money on the Internet is easy. I think I’ve made close to $30–without hardly lifting a finger–in two years. Which leads us to this truth:
Making a lot of money on the Internet is hard.
Without an effective strategy, you won’t be earning a living from your online experiences. [...]
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A student (we’ll call him Andy) came by my office last week to register for next fall’s classes. After we sorted out his schedule, he asked, "What should I be doing to prepare myself for work?"
Andy’s interested in working in financial advising or some related career after college, and we’d had this [...]
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Brand new this week: Alltop.
What is it? Alltop is a kind of aggregator of all the top (all the top–get it?) news feeds on the Internet. They’ve piped in news from sites in nearly forty different categories (for example, career, food, health, fashion, celebrities, etc.) and update the feeds every ten minutes.
Who would use it? [...]
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The work we do is a reflection of who we are. If we’re sloppy at it, it’s because we’re sloppy inside. If we’re late at it, it’s because we’re late inside. If we’re bored by it, it’s because we’re bored inside, with ourselves, not with the work. The most menial [...]
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