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• 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

• TV for Job Hunters

  Over at Cheezhead , Vanessa Dennis writes about the new Chicago-based Job Search Television Network (JSTN) . The multimedia job search network is looking to expand its daily two-hour broadcast powered by Comcast into a 24-hour job ops channel. Currently Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Job Hunting, Technology

• Increase Your Productivity With Custom Search Engines

  I knew something like this was coming, and leave it to Google to be the pioneers. It’s Custom Search – the ability to create a personalized search engine tailored to your needs. Using Google, you can now create a tool that will allow you to search a specific Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Handy Resources, Productivity, Technology, Blogging

• Career Lessons from Bill Gates

  So Bill Gates is preparing to retire as CEO of Microsoft . Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to make and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, an early computer that was sold Read More... Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Creativity & Innovation, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurship, Management, Ownership & Initiative, Technology

• Coping with Techno-Insecurity

  Back in 2005, my husband had a desktop PC custom designed by a store called Microcenter here in Chicago. Since then, we’ve been using this machine for nearly all of our home computing needs. For me, this adds up to a lot. Like most people, I spend hours Read More... Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Productivity, Technology

• The World Beyond 9-5

  Remember when you were a kid and stayed home from school because you were sick? Remember how weird it was to watch all those daytime TV talk shows and think, “so this is how the other half lives.” Remember how it was even stranger when you accompanied Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Life Balance, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Working Remotely or Remotely Working?

  The HR Capitalist has a great post about the distrust of those working from home. Are they really working, asks writer Kris Dunn, or are they simply squeezing 3 hours of work into an 8-hour day? More importantly, can a remote worker/telecommuter even Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: HR Issues, Life Balance, Personal Marketing, Productivity, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Razume: Resume Critique Meets Social Networking

  I just received an e-mail from a reader about Razume , a new online community where users can anonymously post, rate and review resumes. The service provides a fast and easy way to collect valuable feedback from knowledgeable sources like recruiters, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Handy Resources, Job Hunting, Personal Marketing, Professionalism, Technology

• The Next Frontier of Exercise: Training Your Brain

  My fellow Huffington Post columnist Alvaro Fernandez writes about the recent news emphasis on brain fitness and "brain training,” which reflects a growing interest in natural, non-drug-based interventions to keep our brains sharp. Fernandez says that Read More... Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal Development, Productivity, Technology, Work

• Starting Your Own Gig: Entrepreneurism "at Work"

  Leaving the business world to start one’s own gig is a hot topic these days. I read blog posts about it every day, and my friend Pam Slim just sold a new book about it. Over lunch a few weeks ago, I asked my good friend Keith Alperin if he’d be willing Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Careers, Discovering Your Passion, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Should You Publish a Book?

  A lot of twenty-somethings and early thirty-somethings e-mail me asking for advice on how to publish a book written for their age group. While I’m not one to discourage people from anything they have their hearts set on, if you like to write and want Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Creativity & Innovation, Personal Marketing, Technology, Blogging, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Recruitment Spotlight: Can Candidates Find Your Jobs?

  In the coming months, I’m going to be focusing some of Water Cooler Wisdom’s content around employee recruitment and retention techniques. Let’s start with the obvious: the e-advertisements that you, as a manager or HR rep, might be perennially posting Read More... Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Employment Trends, HR Issues, Job Hunting, Technology

• 3 Ways to Back-Up Your Life

  Since everyone’s been bemoaning the sorry state of the economy lately, I thought Lifehack’s recent post on how to “back-up” your life was particularly insightful. Author AJ West says that you should never assume that what you plan today will work for Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Current Affairs, Ownership & Initiative, Technology, Troubleshooting, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• 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

• Review: Jason Alba's I'm On Linked In - Now What???

  I’m very pleased to share this review of my friend and colleague Jason Alba’s new book, I’m on Linked In – Now What??? I have known Jason for over a year, and I can say with all seriousness that he is one of the best networkers I know. He knows everyone, Read More... Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 7:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Job Hunting, Networking, Personal Marketing, Technology