AntHillz : LinkedIn To Your Trusted Colleagues

AntHillz.com is a Philadelphia startup looking to fulfill the desire of many business professional by providing a  network of trusted contacts.  The Key to achieving this goal lies in necessity of all professionals to “write recommendations of each other’s work before they can connect.”  AntHillz.com hopes to reinstill the necessity of reliable connections, by accentuating [...]

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Are you remarkable? Ditch the resume!

Marketing guru Seth Godin recently made a shocking statement…
“I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.”
Go read his blog post and learn why you shouldn’t have a resume and the 4 things you can do to impress a future employer.
Quick tip: Seth’s blog is a [...]

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3 Keys to Networking and Branding

1. Just start - Whether it’s StumbleUpon account, introducing yourself to a colleague for lunch, or creating a blog you’ve got to start somewhere. Why wait till tomorrow, when you can begin today? Networks and brands take time to build. Remember, a great reputation is the most difficult thing to build [...]

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Let’s do lunch! Why?

The business relationship! 50, 20, or even 10 years ago it would seem ludicrous to do business without establishing a solid foundation of this somewhat touchy and indefinable understanding between two parties that both of them are there to suck every ounce of possible profit from the other. In the normal world, relationships are built [...]

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Online Resumes: Differentiate or be Unemployed.

Going off of Chris’s post and our class discussion, this post is about the problems facing students trying to find a job. And it’s also a continuation of my post on using your name as a website and protecting your reputation.
What can a student do to differentiate themselves from their peers?
What can you hand [...]

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Social Networking is leading to an impersonal World

In looking at all of these cases we have done such as Second Life, Facebook and talking about MySpace I want to bring about another aspect.  In today’s world as I was growing up the computer has become more and more popular with younger and younger generations.  I grew up using AIM among other things [...]

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Land That Job

Continuing upon what we talked about last night, I came across www.climber.com in the WSJ today. Excerpt from WSJ - “Visitors to 9 month old climber.com are prompted to answer about 25 questions on qualification topics… and results in a personal profile. Climber works with roughly 40 corporate clients and sends them profiles [...]

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the Kiva Community

Not only does Kiva offer information about the lender, exchange of money and field partners, but the organization also allows you to see the profiles of the other lenders. Thus building on the idea of community that we’ve already discussed. In addition, they have a website - kivafriends - which allows lenders to communicate with one [...]

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Facebook Expansion

In creating facebook the business seemed to start out slow and then increase at a very fast pace. When I was a Freshman here at Grove City my sister was a Hamilton College and she called me and said hey you should get on facebook. So I looked into it because I didn’t [...]

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