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Monthly Archives: July, 2009

How to Stop Twitter Updates on your Facebook Account

It appears that many people are seeing an issue where tweets from their Twitter account are automatically posted as a status update on their Facebook account. Don’t know what is causing this yet, but here is how you can fix it until the issue is sorted out.

Find a twitter populated status update on your Facebook [...]


Meeting Needs vs. More Money

Are you merely throwing money at your employees in an attempt to satisfy them or are you really meeting their needs? An unsatisfied employee will accept more money as a temporary fix to their unhappiness, but you will have to do more than that if you plan on retaining your superstars.
Don’t know what their needs [...]


How to Make Your Company Happy

We already know that happier employees are more productive employees and that fostering a happy workplace leads to creativity, innovation, and better service for your customers. What are some ways that you can promote a happier workplace?
Hire happy employees
Don’t hire people based on their level of education or just because they have 20+ years of [...]


Why is Workplace Happiness Important?

There’s a lot of talk about workplace happiness these days. Facebook groups, websites, seminars, webinars, and whole conferences dedicated to increasing workplace happiness. So, why is it so important to have happy employees?
Happy employees have more energy. They don’t waste all their time and effort trying to figure out why they aren’t happy or satisfied [...]


Ignite Raleigh

I’m really excited about the upcoming Ignite Raleigh event on August 5th at Lincoln Theatre. Ignite events were originally created in 2006 as a medium for speakers to convey ideas about technology, but have grown to include all sorts of topics. Each speaker is given five minutes and 20 slides to share their idea, and [...]


IE6 Must Die

Great article about the inadequacies of Internet Explorer 6 and why it is time to move on over at Mashable.
http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/
If you agree, add a IE6 Must Die twibbon to your twitter avatar.

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Google Expirement: My Job is…

Check out the suggestions Google gave me when I typed in “my job is” today.

My job is:

killing me
boring
making me sick
making me depressed
so boring
too stressful
hell
slowly crushing my soul (my favorite!)
ruining my life

I think this sends a pretty strong message about the way people feel about work.  Doesn’t sound too healthy if you ask me.  Do any [...]


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