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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
This is the funniest headline I’ve EVER read in the Wall Street Journal: Two of the Three Little Pigs Would Have Trouble Getting a Loan Like many Americans, Jon and Laura Hagar are searching for a lender to refinance their home loan. But banks are leery of the Hagars.
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Homes Built of Tires and Trash Lure Environmentalists But Turn Off Bankers
Here’s a question for you: If you had to come up with a checklist for your organization that was guaranteed to stifle imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking…a checklist designed specifically for people who want nothing to do with disruptive change…what would it look like? With a wink toward the irreverent, here’s mine: I’d love to see your checklist, or, at the very least, your revisions of mine or additions to it
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The Anti-Creativity Checklist
While there are many books on the financial crisis, too many of them say too much about what went wrong and not enough about how to fix the problem.
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Review: Robert Pozen’s Road Map for Financial Reform
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
At the beginning of the year we discussed predictions for 2010 , and I mentioned that Offline Consulting – or offering online marketing services to offline business owners – would be a huge opportunity this year and beyond. My friend Maria Gudelis has put together an Offline Money Mindmap and a system to set you up to take advantage of this hot business model
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The Offline Money Mindmap
Update from Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on issuance of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) implementing changes to HIPAA under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). Health care organizations and health lawyers have been anxiously awaiting rules implementing and interpreting the changes because the effective date for many of the HITECH requirements was February 17, 2010. Of particular interest has been whether or not health care organizations are required to amend business associate agreement.
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OCR Update on Issuance of HIPAA HITECH Rulemaking
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
No one likes to be fired . If you were recently laid off or let go, you’re probably very angry or upset about losing a client.
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Fired! Do’s and Don’ts for the Recently Laid Off or Let Go
Long-distance relationships are difficult enough to maintain among adults, but when young kids are involved, the chances of achieving a meaningful conversation from afar tend to diminish. That’s where Readeo comes in, with a newly launched platform that lets families share bedtime stories through the web, reports trendspotter Springwise .
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Long-Distance Bedtime Stories
From jeans to bicycles, fabrics to sleeping bags, we’ve seen a wide array of products consumers can design themselves. Lest swim shorts aficionados feel left out, however, there’s now a design-your-own site for those too—and it even rewards creators with cold, hard cash, according to a story at trendspotter Springwise .
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Design Swim Shorts, Earn Up To $1,000
According to a story in Forbes , after a few long nights at the bar in 2001, Jeffrey Goldblatt decided he was tired of overhearing trashy pickup lines and withering put-downs. He teetered home and set up Rejection Hotline –a phone number women could dish out to their pursuers, leading them to this voice mail: “Hello, the person who gave you this number obviously did not want you to have a real number
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Niche Biz: Humor
Just because Gap Inc. Direct’s affiliate marketing program is well established doesn’t mean the retailer shies away from improvements, says Nick Sheth , director of business development for Gap Inc. Direct.
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Gap’s Nick Sheth explains how to manage a mature affiliate program (InternetRetailer.com)
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
Many freelance writers are reluctant to explore the world of writing SEO content and many others dismiss the idea completely, believing that it’s a nickel-and-dime pursuit best left to low-pay grinders and other hacks. For whatever reason, the term “SEO content” conjures up a lot of negative imagery with some writers. They’re missing out on great opportunities. There is a part of the SEO content world that is gruesome. You will find the clients looking for keyword-rich articles at a buck a pop on the bid boards. They aren’t particularly concerned about quality, accuracy, style or anything else other than having the right keywords laced into something that approximates complete sentences and that will clear the Copyscape hurdle
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Freelance Writing Opportunities in SEO Content
From an Op Ed ” Living with the Electronic Car ” in today’s Wall Street Journal: “A Toyota executive recently explained to a Congressional committee investigating claims of uncontrolled acceleration: ” We need to reduce the number of things we ask our customers to do correctly .” In fact, the exec was describing the essence of responsible engineering – though perhaps the balance in auto design has gotten out of whack.” Considering the feedback from physicians on the needless complexity of electronic medical records and other computerized medical devices for example at ” An Honest Physician Survey on EHR’s “, it seems the healthcare IT industry has yet to learn this simple lesson. I’m frankly not convinced there’s “anyone home” in this complexity-loving industry who could fathom such advice as a good business practice. It also seems that industry may not give a damn about such lessons, even in the most safety critical of environments, the intensive care unit, as long as profits are maintained.
Most marketers realize that in China, people are more price-conscious than their counterparts in poorer developing countries. The Chinese recall product prices with amazing accuracy; constantly comparison shop; and try to buy at the lowest price even if they have to go out of the way to do so, our research shows
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China’s Reverse Price Wars
Boston Scientific is back in the regulatory doghouse after the medical-device maker failed to report to the FDA changes in how it manufactures its line of implantable heart defibrillators The company has recalled the devices and halted further shipments until it resolves the reporting issue with the FDA. The business accounts for 15% of its revenue, which totaled $8.19 billion in 2009.
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Boston Scientific Faces $5 Million-a-Day Paperwork Problem
PayPal has around 175,000 users in India so it naturally became a big issue when PayPal had to temporarily suspend part of their operations here due to enquiries from Indian regulators. The issue was resolved after about a month but users in India were no longer allowed to use the PayPal service for receiving personal payments
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PayPal Problems in India Aren’t Over Yet!
Today I’d like to talk about blog comment etiquette — some dos and don’ts I guess you could say when it comes to commenting on others’ blogs. This issue comes to mind periodically regarding over-linking, but I never considered it worth its own post
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Thoughts on Blog Comment Etiquette