Posts Tagged ‘technology’
4 tech solutions to help your business realize its New Year’s resolutions
Chelsea Hejny is a social media writer at ShortStack, a tab-designing tool that creates custom Facebook pages. Hejny also works as a president of the American Marketing Association in Nevada. The first couple weeks of the new year are in the books, and those New Year’s resolutions are not completing themselves. Luckily, 2012 is the [...]
Live from #gc2011: Nicholas Carr on how the Internet is hurting innovation
Last year, Nicholas Carr released his book “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” which details his research on how technology and the Internet have affected people’s ability to process information. This week at the Milken Institute Global Conference, Carr spoke with SmartBrief editor Mary Ellen Slayter about his work and how [...]
This week’s most clicked
What respect means to a good workplace; how technology is attacking your attention span; and why recruiters on Facebook freak out young job seekers. It’s all on this past week’s top 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce: 5 ways to make your workers love their jobs Google fires worker who broke news of 10% [...]
HR: There’s an app for that
This guest post is by Bradford Thomas, manager at Development Dimensions International. Greetings from the 13th Annual HR Technology conference in Chicago. What a difference a few years makes. Three years ago I was walking through McCormick Place searching for cell coverage. This year I’m on the floor of the conference trying to use the [...]
Weekend Reading: What has inspired you to be a better leader?
As a business leader, you’re always on the lookout for ways to manage people better, identify new opportunities, drive down costs and increase revenues. We’ve found that some of the most interesting conversations between business leaders tend to start with the question “what are you reading?” To that end, we’d like to take the lead [...]
I love my BlackBerry. No wait, I hate it.
Last week’s SmartBrief on Workforce poll: Do you consider employer-paid mobile devices (such as a BlackBerry) a perk or a curse? Perk — 52% Curse –48% As a group, you’re about evenly divided. My answer would depend on which day you asked me. Sometimes, I see my BlackBerry as little more than a glorified tracking [...]
