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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

When a Website Literally Crashes The Strava Files Bicycling Magazine What responsibility does the maker of a fitness social network have for the safety of its users — and the general public? But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. And of course, complex models demand huge volumes of data, are susceptible to computational errors, and hinge on assumptions about unknowable variables such as disruptive technologies that, if wrong, can throw off the results.

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Will You Be The Next Blockbuster, Borders, CDs or Mail?

Eric Jacobson

Perhaps you saw the July 4th issue Fortune magazine article about how digital companies are so big and growing so fast, that they are obliterating old brick-and-mortar businesses. iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. Fortune reported that: The U.S FYE is shriveling. Or expand, or morph?

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3 Things to Watch as the Digital Side of the U.S. Presidential Campaigns Unfold

Harvard Business Review

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. How will technology impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Today, three out of four American voters have both a smartphone and a Facebook account.

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