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Tips For Taking A LinkedIn Profile Photo
A good headshot on LinkedIn is important for your profile. Users with photos receive 21x more views than profiles without, and are 36x more likely to receive messages. A “professional” photo increases those chances even further. But you don’t need to pay a professional photographer to have a “professional” looking photo. We’re going to provide…
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Podcasts I’m Listening To (Summer 2020 Edition)
When the topic of podcasts comes up, the next question is always, “What do you listen to?” and since my listening habits change regularly, I figured it was long past time to update my current heavy rotation. News and Current Events Seattle Now Up First Consider This NPR Politics Podcast Marketplace Tech Shortwave Long Form…
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My Podcast Recommendations #trypod
In the spirit of #trypod, the industry promotion to get more people to listen to podcasts, here are my recommendations. I will group them into two loose categories, 1) news and information, 2) entertainment News & Information Planet Money (NPR) – I’ve been listening since the beginning. About the economy and business. NPR Politics (NPR)…
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On Translating Really Big Numbers and Giving Them a Human Context
Today I encountered an article about a topic that interests me, food waste. I didn’t get too far into it before my mind (and fingers) were off on a tangent.
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Clarify not simplify
Just to remember a maxim inspired by Nigel Holmes: visualizations and infographics must never simplify; they must clarify. And, in order to clarify, sometimes you’ll need to increase the amount of information included, not reduce it.
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Shrink that giant Powerpoint file
We’ve all probably run into this at one point or other: you’ve created a visually stunning Powerpoint deck, but the file is absolutely huge! You can’t email it, or it just takes forever to open or save it… well there is a solution: In PPT for Windows, file > save as — tools, look for…
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Do you manage social media for a Washington food business?
I am conducting a survey and interviews about food industry use of social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tumblr, blogs) for a presentation at the 10th Farmer-Fisher-Chef Connection presented by FORKS on March 21st. If you are responsible for posting to social media for your Washington based food business, please take a few minutes to…
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Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Needs a Better Plan
If Bernie Sanders is serious about a political transformation in America, he needs a better plan. Source: Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Needs a Better Plan I am particularly interested in this section of the article: But Sanders could invite artists from all around the country, famous or not, to create work that spreads the message of…
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On Enemies and lukewarm defenders
This is a great quote from Niccolo Machiavelli (thanks to Dave Roberts for sharing it over on Vox): It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of…
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Stop referring to yourself as consumers…
“Stop referring to yourself as consumers. Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.” — James Howard Kunstler (TED Talk)