A startling 37% of American workers — roughly 54 million people — have been bullied at work according to a 2007 survey by the Workplace Bullying Institute . The consequences of such bullying spreading to the targets’ families, coworkers, and organizations

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Create a Bully-Free Workplace

A few hours after a massive earthquake struck Haiti, I was having dinner with Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner and a couple of other Wikimedia folks. We discussed, among other things, the tremendous success of Wikimedia’s latest fund-raising campaign. It wasn’t until I returned to my hotel room that I saw breaking news about the devastating earthquake, on Wikipedia

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From Haiti to the Oscars: Wikimedia’s Community at its Best

Last time I walked us through a successful query letter writing , pointing out a few tips for you to review your own query letters.  Now I want to talk to you about something that requires a little bit more confidence a few extra ninja skills; I just call querying out of the box . You might hear these called letters of interest, because it is when you are querying a potential client when there isn’t any writers guidelines or job posting.

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Query Letter Writing: Querying Out of the Box

Beyond Chron ‘s Paul Hogarth talks about backroom deals and the death of the public option. He makes a good point about the efforts of grassroots orgs that kept the debate going despite the tone in DC: At this point, it became crystal clear to me this President would not push the change we can believe in – that progressives would have to just do it themselves.

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Defending the public option

Seattle, Washington: Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement. via Local News | Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16 | Seattle Times Newspaper

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Behind the stage in the concert hall at the Vietnam National Academy of Music , ornate images of winged dragons are carved into the wood paneling. But if a group of visiting Americans has its way, another creature will also loom large at the Academy: the hedgehog

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Management Principles for the Arts

An article in Christian Science Monitor, reporting from the AAAS meeting last month, quotes me in a couple of places: As Climate Change debate wages on, scientists turn to Hollywood for help – read the whole thing (it may not be obvious at first, but there are two pages there). The must-read of the day is Ed Yong’s The value of ‘this is cool’ science stories: But for now, as newspapers decline and shrink, the worry is that the internet will only cater for established interests. As Colin ask…

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Science Journalism must-reads of the day

You may think of peanut butter as more of a childhood staple, but it’s also a great source of protein for adults. Surprisingly, it may also be a great for weight control: one study found that peanut eaters tend not to overeat their daily calories.

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Homemade peanut butter

(Photo: Johan, Wikipedia) By now you may have heard the hazards of extreme cleaners that perform anti-bacterial overkill and the toxic potential of synthetic chemicals such as ammonia and chlorine. You do have a choice when it comes to how you clean your house, and there are a number of green-friendly brands on the market.

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Top five green cleaning tips

A Department of Energy report on light emitting diode (LED) technology has some pretty startling numbers to digest. First, 7% of America’s electricity is used to light our homes and businesses. That number is down significantly in the last few years because of the adoption of efficient lighting

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LED lighting would save America $120 billion

(Photo: Peter Schuchert ) The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).

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The world’s only immortal animal

(Photo: Marcal) In a recent interview on Blog Talk Radio , Tim Spring, president of Marcal Paper, explained to me that virgin tree pulp is the most common source for paper towels, napkins, bath, and facial tissues found on store shelves. However, virgin tree fiber is obtained only one way: By killing trees.

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10 big reasons to stop using dead trees

Check out the panels or exhibitors at this year’s SXSW and you’ll see how many longstanding social media and web app challenges now have compelling, or at least viable, solutions. Staying on top of the latest social media news? Check

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Five Unsolved Problems Social Media Could Fix

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd has unveiled the latest version of his financial reform bill. Despite the fact that Dodd decided to go it alone (that is, without the endorsement of Republicans Dick Shelby and Bob Corker), It’s very much a compromise plan, meaning that we’ll be hearing a lot from both consumer advocates and banking lobbyists about its flaws.

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What Business Should Want Out of Financial Reform

When you use online classified advertisements correctly chances are that you will get good results from them. An online classified ad is an ad placed on the internet in a specific place where it can be promoted.

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Learn the Steps to Using Online Classified Advertising Successfully

This past week the Boys and Girls Clubs of America came under fire by Chuck Grassley, the Republican senator from Iowa, who is making out-of-context political red meat of the salary of the organization’s CEO. The undeserved attack — reported in a major segment on CNN, in the Washington Post , the Huffington Post, and on the Associated Press — created what will likely now be a 10-year uphill public relations battle for the charity. In his introduction to the piece, CNN’s chief sensationalist Wolf Blitzer commented that “this is a pretty shocking story,” before one iota of information was delivered that would allow anyone to decide for themselves whether it was shocking or not

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Senator Grassley Is Undermining the Humanitarian Sector

The entertainment and CGI world has been fawning over the movie Avatar for months, and it seems you can’t watch any entertainment news program without hearing about James Cameron’s groundbreaking 3D epic.

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What Avatar Can Teach You About Repurposing Your Content

Let’s say you are using Amazon S3 to host images and other media files. Anyone can view these images on your website and you’ve also allowed other sites to use these images as long as they credit the source, that is, your site. Now consider a different scenario.

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Prevent Hotlinking of your Amazon S3 Images

Reads like this: He had bought a small plot of ground a few miles from where they lived and he had just erected on it two glass-houses in which he proposed to cultivate tomatoes for profit. He had come back one evening and asked her if she’d ever noticed tomatoes in the shops.

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Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neil’s Hotel by William Trevor

Astrodocs: For these physicians, space is their workplace Since 1973, 23 U.S. physicians have launched into space. They have taken part in spacewalks, treated fellow crew members and conducted medical research

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