If you're like me, you oogle when you see clean and sophisticated websites with fabulous font pairings. I can recognize when fonts are misused and when they make me drool at my screen, but I can't for the life of me pair them together myself. Luckily, I don't have to.
I just got back from the Genius Bar at the Apple store after I spent 2 days last week trying to figure out why my Macbook pro hated me and was threatening suicide after only 9 months. Since all my work files live on my computer and I have never backed them up, I was totally freaking out (obvi).
This extension for Google Chrome is a more legit form of social media stalking. When you install Rapportive, a social networking bubble appears to the right of your inbox displaying the most recent Tweets, Facebook updates, LinkedIn information, recent check-ins, and phone numbers associated with a person's email address.
Ever attended (or led) a training that just went off the rails? Maybe nothing was on time, or people spent the entire time playing Angry Birds? Maybe people were constantly talking during sessions, or individuals were made to feel unwelcome?
If you've ever taken a writing class, you've heard the phrase "write what you know." Well, there's a similar edict for effective trainers: teach from experience. In my experience, the trainers who are most impactful incorporate their personal and professional experience into the fabric of their training. I already encouraged you to start with your Story of Self, but here are a few other key ways to integrate your experience into the training (as well as reasons the practice works)
Tis the season of campaign hiring. Time to revamp your resume and untag the unflattering Facebook photos of your summer antics. We've all been taught the standard resume rules: use a professional email, keep it to one page, spell check and use concrete language. While this version might suffice for govt jobs, it will hardly make you stand out in the sea of resumes, chalk full of 20-somethings who have been crafting their online personas since age 10.
