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I saw this question in my title on a Meetup discussion board earlier and replied:  “No, employers should not secretly monitor Facebook activity. They should overtly monitor and encourage it. Welcome to Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘The Thank You Economy’.” I also started two five discussion threads on LinkedIn and encouraged viewers to comment there or here [...]

I came across this discussion in a LinkedIn group I belong to which was started by Dr. Joy Poskozim, a Chicago dentist. I was impressed since I have been on LinkedIn for a few years and think this is the first discussion I saw started by a dentist. I even congratulated her on her work, [...]

Yes, we see all the bad news as the US market went down, way down yesterday. And as of this writing there is a slight gain on Friday. Hey, U.S. payroll rose in July. A bank may be charging companies to keep money in the bank because there is so much of it (money)? Seems [...]

Jeanette Mulvey, BusinessNewsDaily Managing Editor wrote an article on June 27, 2011 entitled: “Mind Your Business: What Your Boss Doesn’t Know (Yet)” slanted toward baby boomer bosses. To those of us who called the Yellow Pages social media when we first started in management, she calls out. And here is her plea: “Social media and [...]

Small businesses are cautiously looking for workers according to today’s post by Kristina Knight in BizWorld. She cites a recent survey by Manta in the article.  [Manta claims to be the world's largest online community for promoting and connecting small business.] Their survey reports 57% of small businesses are looking to hire this year. This [...]

There is an appeal to small business owners who need control in their entrepreneurial world and WordPress offers that control in a Web publishing format.  WordPress is a publishing program this is free thanks to the joint efforts of thousands of programmers worldwide who want nothing more than to be able to contribute to mankind.  [...]

Can you help me get even one person back on the road to dignity and respect?  Together we can get some unemployed active job seekers off the trail of depression, gloom and self doubt we have all felt from time to time as an unemployed, insecure non-contributor.  I personally know how that felt.  I also [...]

I do not often write dissertations and megillahs, ode to some good friends and clients of mine (Jack and Jerry….went down the hill), but this is one time I felt compelled. Please read it through and I truly do wish for your comments or questions. As Bob said to me at the Buffalo Grove Area [...]

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A recent article on the Small Business Trends Web site was full of useful information and resources for small business people trying to stay abreast of what is happening in the world. The December 10th post starts out by saying: “The world is changing and so is small business. Trouble is, with all the bad [...]