Last week I listened to a great speech from Carlos Hernandez at iRM Consulting.  He shared his expertise with the audience at a Career Strategy Forum hosted by the Northern Silicon Valley Partnership.  Building Networks utilizing Social Networking tools – Carlos talked about Web 2.0 and the importance of utilizing the technology for networking.  He mentioned several great ways to use social networking tools to build social networks. I think one of the most notable things he mentioned for me was that Social Media breaks down age barriers or perceptions of people.  This is...

Have you ever uploaded a picture for your social network profile only to discover it was resized on you?  The problem is not that it was resized, the problem is with the scale.  If the scaling isn’t proportional then that great picture might not be so flattering.  It will be like looking in one of those Distortion Mirrors in the Fun House.  It could distort the picture so much that it doesn’t represent the true you. There are 3 options to resolve this issue: Offer your techie friend a coffee, Jolt or Rockstar in return for helping you scale your image to the right...

Here are some of the latest developments in our favorite Facebook farm applications.  I recently wrote a blog on Farm Town or FarmVille.  In the blog I mentioned that Farm Town had twice as many required clicks for harvesting.  It appears that Harvesting in Farm Town has improved. Improved harvesting User Interface in Farm Town They have added a Faster harvesting option.  In the past you would take 2 clicks for each field you wanted to harvest.  You would click to select the field, then you would click to sell or click to store the harvested crop. Now, after you select a crop to harvest...

Bad News – In today’s economy people are looking at their career choices and saying, “What happened to my career?  I was supposed to have this career until I retire.  Is it ever going to come back or do I need to change my career? What am I going to do now?”  Their future looks bleak in their own mind.  But what about reality?  Is their career really dead or is it just waiting for the economy to pick up? How are you going to find out this information? Good News – There is a resource that can help you figure out if your career is heading the way of the...

Yesterday, I wrote a blog called “LASER Focus,” in the blog was an acronym for LASER which consisted of words that were very precise and focused.  After I was finished with that blog, I started thinking about that acronym and decided I should create one for the word FOCUS as well.  So here it is. Focalize In order to focus on anything first you need to know what you’re going to focus on.  In other words, you need a vision.  A definition of what you’re supposed to be doing.  Once you have that vision, you can   Then you can align your sight to the focal point or...