Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
How not to network; or, getting people to like you is easy if you don’t insult them.
Photo by bluebetty
Recently, I had a fascinating interaction with a woman at a networking event I attend with some frequency. It was the first time we had met, and she was sitting near me at one of the tables as I had just started a conversation with someone else. As has occasionally happened, when the [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Please consider the environment before printing this post
The other day saw a very interesting and heated debate over a hot topic on one of my green business lists - the addition of that little line at the end of e-mail signatures that asks you to “please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.” Or it says to “Think Green! Don’t Print This [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
an ad campaign gone too far?
A friend recently pointed me to a series of illustrated ads for Burger King that she found disturbing. While the comments on the Idea Sandbox (great site, by the way) had a lot more to do with the apparently sexualized nature of many of the ads, I don’t know that I necessarily mind that. The [...]
