Frustrated Workers And Employers Anxious For COBRA Extension – Kaiser Health News
Still no progress on legislation. I’ll continue to monitor and post for readers interested in this topic.
COBRA Extension Update – 12/12/09
Business Trends
Debating the Wrong Debate – Outsourced Underwriting Will Become the New Normal
These Jobs May Not Come Back – BusinessWeek
I’ve maintained for several years that many of the jobs being eliminated are just not coming back. We are way past the debate of whether or not outsourced underwriting is a good or bad business practice. Outsourced underwriting will be the new normal.
Read this Business Week article. Send me your comments.
COBRA Extension Update – 12/08/09
Copyright and Digital Media – (Turkeys)
I was reading an online article from the Financial Times and noticed the following copyright notice:
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.
As a result of this notice I did not provide a link within a post but used Twitter instead. I guess I’m legally protected and FT will be happy someone followed their rules. My notice is a little different.
© Copyright 2009 Underwriting Solutions LLC
FREE REPRINTS
You can republish our articles for free, provided you credit us, link to us, don’t edit our material, or do something that creates
real bad Karma like trying to sell what we given you for free.
I like mine better.
Social Media – The Digital and Generational Gap (Turkeys Listen UP!)
Preoccupations – James R. Gaines, Proud to Join the Digerati – NYTimes.com
In the digital world, though, social networks are now bigger than most national populations, more people are consuming more news and information than ever before, and an archive of all the world’s knowledge is being built and streamed to your favorite device. This new world brings with it as much promise as pain. It’s like youth that way.
Scary Chart of the Day – 12/6/09
Global Microbrand (Turkeys Primer)
the global microbrand rant | Gapingvoid
Yeah, I know this post is old. But old doesn’t always mean outdated. The information you’ll find at this link is transformative. Whether you work for yourself or The Man, we all need to understand the concept of the Global Microbrand.
Final month 4Q is strategy time. Time to think up different revenue stream ideas for 2010.
Social Networks Question of the Day
Valuing Social Networks For Fun And Profit – The Source – WSJ
But the difficult question that Twitter poses — how the big user bases of free Internet services can be converted into revenue — may also be put to Facebook and LinkedIn.
Turkeys – Managing Generations
This article is nearly 5 years old but still provides a good overview of generational issues in the workplace. The chart on workplace characteristics is priceless. Note how communication styles have changed in Gen Y in just 5 years. Replace email and voice mail with texting, tweeting, and your fav social networking site.
Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees
Social Media Q & A (Turkeys)
Social Media Q & A « Socialnomics – Social Media Blog
Again I want to reiterate I am not using the word “turkeys” in any negative fashion. It is a simple search term for my posts on management issues.
Turkeys.
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