We all know this is a difficult job market.  We have friends and neighbors who are looking for work.  People like to share horror stories and layoffs make the headlines every day.  Is it any wonder that people who are employed want to hunker down and stay where they are - riding out the storm?  […]

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I read with enthusiasm an article today from WOMMA (word of mouth marketing association) that the WOM spread offline is more positive and more likely to be interpreted more credible than WOM spread online.
Since I am new to the world of blogging (stop laughing!) this article reaffirmed that online communication is a powerful tool but […]

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Our business partner, Julie Baker told me about an interesting online company called TheFunded.com.
It is fascinating with the insurgence of social networking and the free flow of information, how you can voice your opinion about any topic, anytime, in a heart beat. The issue, (that I find scary) is the effect these random opinions can […]

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Doesn’t the world already have enough unverified and/or less methodologically rigorous sources of pay data for the masses? Apparently, the newly-unveiled Glassdoor.com doesn’t think so.
We already have Vault.com, Salary.com, PayScale.com and others to provide data-thirsty workers ammunition to “verify” their under-compensated belief systems and to complain to their employers with (of course, if the “data” […]

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