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Monday, February 8, 2010
Our goal is to stay better organized so we can respond to your questions faster. It’s from a guy named Scott Lynch who works at Sustain Dane , a nonprofit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. I *heart* fan mail. There is nothing better than hearing from you guys. We’ve been getting so much mail that we’ve decided to take the load off by setting
 
Thursday, February 4, 2010
0160; At the top of the organization would be a small number of leaders and expert in specialized fields.  They Career paths are increasingly jobless.  0160; Way back in the late 1980s, management professor and consultant Charles Handy issued his research on the emerging trend.  0160; It was called "The Age of Unreason."
 
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Stories and images help but it takes work because it’s a skill not readily cultivated in organizations. What makes an effective presentation?  I recently interviewed Nancy Duarte, CEO and principal of Duarte Design and author of slide:ology ,  to find out what she thinks. You don’t have to go far to figure out Duarte is passionate about story-telling and using effective visuals to tell the story.
 

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Tags: Clear and Compelling Business Writing How to persuade and gain commitment Powerful Presentations presentation business writing organize business writing Add new ta Have you ever had the task of engaging people with differing needs in the same message?   Do you wonder how to address executives and technical specialists with the same message?   Here’s a strategy you can count on. At first, provide the material as an overview.   In presentations, use a short description, perhaps illustrated by an uncluttered slide.   In documents, discipline yourself to provide an executive
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The best selling arena for your skills may be each organization's website.  0160; Increasingly, organizations such as Politico.com are listing their openings only there.  0160; And since you're right there, it's worth the even extra effort to fine-tune your cover letter and resume to exactly fit the culture of the organization and the specific job requirements.  0160; Maybe that narrows down those who apply to the more qualified for that particular category of work. Yes, it's effort to manually migrate from website to website. 
Shireen Mitchell, whose Twitter handle is digitalsista , here offers useful tips for conference organizers about how to ensure their panels include women speakers --she's speaking in response to a Wired magazine conference which caused a stir by fielding a tech panel without women speakers. (Technology's Make sure you let conference organizers know you want to see diversity--particularly women speakers--in every session. Technology's one of several professions where women are noticing all-male speaker rosters.) In addition to these tips, an online petition was started.
is that their mindset and behavior is plodding Organization Man.  In this Great Digital Leap Forward, can the Organization Man be shipped off to ReEducation camp?  NEWSWEEK's re-design didn't significantly boost sales.  0160; Not that we digitals expected it would.  0160; Yeah, that was like
During big-time, gut-wrenching crises, organizations have a tendency to do one of two things. There's a lesson in all this for you and your organization. Speak in plain terms about what your organization is doing to weather the storm. Years ago, when I was a senior speechwriter in a Fortune 100 company, They jam their Florsheim's into their mouths to the ankle. Or they hunker down, duck their heads, and try to ride out rough weather.
0160; Apple joined the conga line of companies quitting this organization.  Chamber and most of traditional organizations are a dying breed.   0160;  The jobs they used to do for us in society - informing, educating, organizing, lobbying, fund-raising - we digitals can do for ourselves.  The iconic U.S. Chamber of Commerce got it  on the chin, again.