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Archive for the ‘Survival Skills’ Category

January 26th, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part V

We’re interviewing Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships. It has been a good week with the questions, answers and comments from readers.
Networking is a critical component of today’s work, no matter your position, location, or type of work that you do. I’m really pleased that Jason […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

January 25th, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part IV

We’re interviewing Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships. It’s been a good week, too, with some really good answers to the questions.
Here are the questions from the last three sessions:

What are the 3-5 incorrect perceptions about networking?
I’m starting at “ground zero” in terms of networking. What […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 24th, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part III

We’re interviewing Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships.
Here are the questions from the last two days:

What are the 3-5 incorrect perceptions about networking?
I’m starting at “ground zero” in terms of networking. What are the first action items I should do to start building a network?

Good answers […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

January 23rd, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba: Part II

Yesterday, I started the first in a series of questions with Jason Alba, of JibberJobber.com, an Internet software Career Toolset that helps people manage their relationships. The first question was “What are the 3-5 incorrect perceptions about networking?”
In today’s edition, we’ll take a look at the second question:
I’m starting at “ground zero” in terms of […]

By Scot Herrick -- 1 comment

January 22nd, 2007

Networking with Jason Alba — Part I

Jason Alba has spent a LOT of time thinking about looking for a job, trying to find the right one, and how to go about doing it. He got a lot of time to think about it after his board unceremoniously tossed him out of his job just over a year ago.
Instead of just thinking […]

By Scot Herrick -- 8 comments

January 19th, 2007

Strategy and tactics: How to Pimp Your Work

This past week, I’ve written about the characteristics of successful strategies, tactics and that execution is the key to success of a strategy.
Business oriented.
But there is another key to strategy and tactics: how can you Pimp Your Work using these same successful characteristics of strategy and tactics? Just because the principles outlined here apply to […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 18th, 2007

Listen to Stowe, good rules for IM etiquette (IMquette?)

I live and die by IM.  I have it open all the time.  I even have it on my Blackberry (Gtalk).  Now, there is some etiquette to IM.  Yes, really.  No, I’m serious, there is.  Sometimes people don’t follow it (sometimes I’m even guilty of it), but there is one.  Recently there was a parody […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

January 18th, 2007

Strategy and tactics: The key to strategy success

There are spectacular successes of strategy out there in the business world. And spectacular failures.
Usually the spectacular failure is one where the premise of the strategy was incorrect in the first place. My classic example is Classic Coke. It became Classic Coke because the company seriously misread the marketplace and the power of its own […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 17th, 2007

Strategy and Tactics: Five characteristics of successful tactics

If you look at the books and magazine articles (or business blog articles), you can tell that everyone loves strategy. I mean love it. You’d think that if you could come up with the coolest strategy in the world, you’d be sitting on Easy Street faster than you can say You Tube.
But, as the sports […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 16th, 2007

Web Workers toolkit, is it enough?

Another good post from WebWorkerDaily.  They list the core tools for distance collaboration.

Email
Phone
Text chat
VOIP
Web Conferencing
Document collaboration
Group online document sharing
Wiki
Shared calendars
Message forums
video chat

No doubt that these are extremely important.  I use all of them, except for wikis.  No doubt as well that video and web conferencing has made use strides since I first tried them in […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment