Worldwide hotel group Starwood recently debuted the latest and greatest retrofit of their digital application for premier members, Starwood Preferred Guests. ??While Starwood's inaugural app afforded convenience, the newest upgrade is a radical and worthy improvement. The highly anticipated redesign has pulled in sanguine and two-thumbs up reviews from Starwood users, and it's a major ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 17:57

Should we care that companies lose top talent? A number of popular articles recently have paid homage to the need to retain top talent. Recruiting expert John Sullivan says you should ?begin planning for this next round of talent wars, because once the intense competition begins, there simply won't be time to catch up.? Erika ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:54

If you want to know what my five-year professional plan is, ask me what I do on a Sunday afternoon and not what's ticking on my career clock.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:26

Even as unemployment remains stubbornly above 8 percent, there?s one sector of the economy that is showing a rebound: manufacturing. While the easy jobs are gone, there?s one skill applicants can learn that will get them an offer from any manufacturer across the country ? and most likely, around the world. People who can run ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:55

There's been a quite a bit of controversy over using homeless people as wireless hotspots since the New York-based advertising agency Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH) deployed them at the South by Southwest festival. At first glance, it seems like a two-birds/one stone idea: solving both the real-world problem of employing the homeless, as well as the first-world problem of never finding a darned hotspot when you need one. But even a Wi-fi craving tech junkie like me can see that this isn't the solution. "Homeless hotspots" are a bad idea for one very important reason:

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 03:12

If you watched the NCAA Selection Sunday show on , you likely saw the UPS commercial, "The Pass," revisiting the epic Duke versus Kentucky 1992 East Regional slugfest. "Everybody remembers the shot," the narrator begins with footage of Christian Laettner's last-second dagger into the heart of Big Blue Nation. "But what about the pass?" The ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 23:25

Season 2 of Game of Thrones is less than two weeks away. The new Prometheus trailer looks absolutely amazing. The Snow White and the Huntsman trailer looks mighty fine too. Can geek life get any better than this? If you're a fan of Joss Whedon then yes. Yes, it can. Because Joss is about to open up a can of awesome (and probably kill a beloved character with the contents).

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 02:45

The debt-ceiling impasse of mid-2011 was a classic case of President Obama trying to lead when no one was following. The President finally stalked out of meetings in fits of frustration and/or pique, allowing the leaders of both parties to choose their own approaches and collaborate on a proposed resolution to the debt ceiling issue. ...

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 04:53

A tweet from @ODwyerPR caught my eye this morning. It linked to a Forbes.com-contributed piece by PR pro Lindsey Green originally published in The Daily Muse, a site that describes itself as ?a rapidly growing community of women who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job.? The piece, titled ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

If you?ve been paying attention to the debate over the constitutionality of the health reform law, you?ve probably heard mention of the hypothetical ?broccoli mandate.? The questions, if the federal government can make everyone buy health insurance at a particular coverage level and type, can it make everyone buy anything? For example, could the federal ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 18:55