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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Friends and Business Do Mix

July 27, 2007 – 7:40 pm

Social networking sites aimed at adults, once thought of as the online equivalent of happy hour or ladies night, are now becoming hotspots for business owners seeking business leads and career professionals seeking job leads.  None of the social networking sites is set up for open solicitations, but most are actively marketing the possibility of [...]

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SF’s Wannabe Techillionaires Launch New Network

July 26, 2007 – 11:33 pm

Tuesday night San Francisco’s would-be Technorati showed up in droves at an event hosted by SF Beta, a networking group for founders, investors and fans of new technology companies. The event was held at trendy bar-gallery 111 Minna and was billed as a product demo and networking event for founders of tech- and web-based [...]

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Giving Till It Hurts: Are New Business Owners Going Too Far?

July 23, 2007 – 10:31 pm

I’ve been attending many of those well-intentioned networking mixers that lure mildly introverted folks from the comfort of their home offices in search of cheap drinks and piles of business cards.  The themes varied, but the results were the same: I met dozens of nice people nervously pushing their new ideas and, in some cases, [...]

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CareerBuilder’s Questionable Career Search Tools

July 22, 2007 – 3:09 am

Careerbuilder is without argument one of the most successful career and job search sites on the web, but its latest, um, tools are…weird.
I couldn’t resist trying it.  But, once I tried it, I confirmed that it was without a doubt one of the stupidest bits I’ve seen on a job search site, and not just [...]

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Update on the Diddy Personal Assistant Competition

July 20, 2007 – 10:23 pm

Just checking in on P. Diddy’s quest to find a new personal assistant.  The YouTube group devoted to the job hunt currently boasts 686 members and 482 videos.  There’s apparently still time to apply.

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Opportunity Alert: Corporate Sustainability Executives

July 20, 2007 – 10:11 pm

You’d have to live under a rock not to have heard about global warming, the AIDS crisis and genocide in Africa. Thanks to movie stars and polebrities (politicians turned celebrities), we’re all in the throes of passion for the state of the environment and the treatment of pandemics and the preservation of human rights. [...]

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P-Diddy Hiring!

July 18, 2007 – 4:00 pm

P-Diddy, the rap mogul and founder of BadBoy Entertainment and Sean Jean fashion, is hiring a new personal assistant.  He wants someone who has a college degree, is willing to deal with being hollered at and is, quite simply, “the best”.  Diddy posted the job to his MySpace page and has decided to use YouTube [...]

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