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Millennials: Oversharing and Ignoring Hierarchy. Not.

August 31st, 2010 | 1 comment | Unfiltered

I’d like to thank Andrew McAfee for an inspiring post on Generation Y (and/or Millennials, whatever) in the workplace. The guy is a principal research scientist at MIT and this little article was in the Harvard Business Review blog – he’s kind of a big deal. That being said – while I can appreciate his ability to call our generation...

 
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Sense of Possibilities: Unfiltered.

August 24th, 2010 | 9 comments | Unfiltered

Last week, a colleague of mine (Hi, Ali!) shared this article from the New York Times about 20-somethings. I’ll tell you now, it’s a lengthy read. And the back end is really researchy and science-heavy. But it’s a good one, so if you have an hour to spare, give it a gander. The article talks a lot about milestones and how...

 
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Community + Promotion = SXSW Panel Love

August 17th, 2010 | 1 comment | SXSW

Greetings social friends! With more than 2,000 SXSW interactive entries to vote for this year, it’s safe to say that the competition is FIERCE! Sarah Evans, of Sevans Strategy came up with a killer list of panels that everyone should check out. When I saw that both of the panels that I’m lucky to have a hand in were on the...

 
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Another letter to Skydiving.

August 16th, 2010 | 2 comments | Skydiving

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This letter is “another” letter to skydiving because the first one was {here} and skydiving is like dating. Dear Skydiving, I’m going to tell you a little bit about me. You know when you get to that place with something new in your life where you kinda shock yourself by how full-steam-ahead you’ve been approaching things? I’ve been...

 
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If you vote for our panels, unicorns will appear. Pinky swear.

August 11th, 2010 | 3 comments | SXSW

Come one, come all – the nerdery can officially begin. Publicly, that is. For months, your nerdy friends have been planning fantastic sessions for SXSW Interactive that surely, you’ll want to attend. In the interest of promoting our friends as much as I promote our stuff, I’d like to extend a formal invitation for you to pimp your panel in...