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10 Ways You Can Improve Your Website for Boomers

Posted in November 6th, 2009

Ed. Note. Sure, these are not new. Maybe. Consider it a reminder, then.
1.    Use bigger fonts. Not ginormous ones, just slightly bigger.
2.    Use black fonts. We can’t read orange, or faint fonts either. Just you wait.
3.    We all have ADD. Just remember that.
4.    We all have ADD. Just remember that!!
5.    On your order page, or [...]

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Fortune: Steve Jobs, Business Person of the Decade

Posted in November 5th, 2009

by wwds in Culture, Daily Wisdom

Was anyone else close? I mean, really. All over the country in R and D labs, corporate boardrooms and motivational sessions there is one question for everyone: “What Would Steve Jobs Do?”
Congratulations Steve…keep it up. PS: Don’t you ever die…or retire. You make too many contributions by just doing what you are doing.
And, just for [...]

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ShitForBrainsJobBoards. Just Stop.

Posted in November 5th, 2009

by wwds in Daily Wisdom, HR, Job Seeker Advice, Work-related

I’m pissed.
Seriously. What does it take? What DOES it take?
I mean, we know how to help job seekers. Yet, ShitForBrainsJobBoards continue to “help” jobseekers by showing old jobs, out of date jobs, scam jobs, postal jobs which are jobs you have to buy application forms yeah right, duplicate jobs and the list of crappy things [...]

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“I Should Have Seen It Coming.”

Posted in November 2nd, 2009

by wwds in Daily Wisdom

Today’s insight comes from “UsedToBeMe”–from her blog.
A word first: I’ve never met her but I enjoy reading her blog for several reasons. Like millions of people not like me, she is a hard working mom, trying to manage her nottohelpful husband (identify with that ladies?), and a too-stoopid-to-live attorney boss who makes her do incredibly [...]

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The Life of an Entrepreneur: Is it for You?

Posted in October 30th, 2009

by wwds in Culture, Daily Wisdom

Ed.Note: Since this blog began, I have met quite a few career coaches, resume writers and HR folks, I find all of them very interesting and insightful about the world of work. Even better, I have learned a lot from each of them. When they invited me to join a new community called [...]

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The First Job Search Engine With SEO Built Right In

Posted in October 29th, 2009

by wwds in Job Seeker Advice

From Wikipedia: Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the [...]

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Airline Pilots’ Excuses: Oh Come On!

Posted in October 28th, 2009

by wwds in Culture

Ed. Note: The following post ran on US NEWS yesterday.
Do you have a grandparent like this? A middle aged friend of mine recently visited her 90-year-old grandma in a local nursing home. “Oh my God,” Grandma said. “What happened to you? You’re so fat.”
The older we get, the less we can [...]

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