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• 5 Burning Questions About Tech Etiquette

  Real Simple Magazine has just featured one user manual that’s worth reading – how to be plugged in without being impolite. Hap tip to Yahoo! Shine for the highlights, which contain advice from some of the business in the tech-etiquette business: 1. You’re Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism, Technology

• 7 Tips for Better Presentations

  If you talk to me about the speaking arm of my career for more than five minutes, you’ll get an earful about my Powerpoint quandary. What’s the most impactful way to deliver a speech? Should I use slides or not? If I don’t, should I use talking points? Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Handy Resources, Personal Marketing, Technology

• How Would You Network if the Internet Went Down?

  Says my colleague Dan Schawbel on his Personal Branding blog : “Over the past few days, I’ve put a lot of thought into online versus offline personal branding. We all need to focus on building powerful offline brands, because who knows what will happen Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Networking, Personal Marketing, Technology

• 6 Tips for New Twitter Users

  I have to confess, I still haven’t gotten into Twitter . My Facebook addiction is bad enough. I fear that if I add Twitter to my arsenal of time-wasting technology tools, I will never finish a book chapter or blog post again. Nevertheless, Twitter is Read More... Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Technology, Daily Life, Blogging

• The New Inane E-mail Forwards? YouTube Videos.

  Just when you thought the fad of forwarding silly or inappropriate joke e-mails to colleagues had run its course, along comes YouTube . Now don’t get me wrong: I think YouTube is the greatest entertainment invention since Nintendo. My favorite YouTube Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Workplace Humor

• Work E-mail Usage Survey Results a Tad Unsettling

  According to a new national survey by Harris Interactive for The Marlin Company , 10% of U.S employees say their company has used e-mail to fire or lay off employees. And 17% indicated their boss used e-mails to avoid other difficult face-to-face conversations. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, HR Issues, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• If You Must Complain, Please Be Discreet

  Over at Slacker Manager (which has a bunch of great new authors), managers are discussing a post from Ask a Manager . One boss isn’t sure what to do about an employee complained about him on her blog. Says the boss in question: Last year, when she was Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, HR Issues, Reviews & Promotions, Technology

• Four Tips for Linking Up With LinkedIn

  I get a lot of e-mails asking me how people should use LinkedIn for business networking. And the truth is, I’m not entirely sure myself, which is why I’m looking forward to my friend Jason Alba’s book on the topic. This week, though, I came across a great Read More... Posted Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Job Hunting, Networking, Technology

• Thought Please Was the Magic Word? Think Again.

  Will Schwalbe , a guest blogger at Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist , is senior vice president, editor in chief of Hyperion Books , and has just published a cool new book called Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home . I’ve yet to receive Read More... Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Should Everyone Have a Blog?

  A lot of career experts have been buzzing lately about the necessity of having a blog. Their rationale is that everyone who’s anyone is out there participating in the online conversation, and that if you don’t have something valuable to contribute, employers Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 9 Comments Filed under: Communication, Employment Trends, Personal Marketing, Technology, Blogging

• E-mail: Your Best Friend or Worst Enemy

  I adore e-mail and couldn't live without it, but at least once a week I hear a terrible story about a generally good person and employee who turned the weapon of Microsoft Outlook on himself - and fired. Just the other day, an HR manager told me about Read More... Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism, Technology Attachment(s): http://www.data-recovery-info.com/panic.jpg