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The book’s author, Devora Zack, is a self-confessed introvert who’s easily drained by too much social interaction. In spite of this, she runs a successful business consulting for clients such as the Smithsonian Institution. She also teaches networking seminars. “What’s that you’re mumbling? You don’t like networking and have no interest anyway? You don’t have [...]

I wandered Toronto’s downtown core with five prepaid cards, waiting for people to ask for money.

What would happen if, instead of spare change, you handed a person in need the means to shop for whatever they needed? What would they buy? Can you spare your credit card, sir? In New York City, an advertising executive recently handed over her American Express Platinum Card to a homeless Manhattan man after he [...]

Une question d’âge, vraiment?

Dans Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age, TechCrunch avance que les entreprises en techno ont meilleur intérêt à engager des jeunes: The harsh reality is that in the tech world, companies prefer to hire young, inexperienced, engineers. [...] Why would any company hire a computer programmer with the wrong skills for a salary [...]

Android Market et Admob: c’est rentable.

In February 2009 Arron La launched an app in the Market called Advanced Task Manager (ATM), which at the time was only available for root users and made La on average $500 a month during its first four months. Near the end of that fourth month La was able to make the app available to [...]

Beaux bureaux: Campaign Monitor

L’équipe de Campaign Monitor vient d’emménager dans de beaux nouveaux bureaux, «right across from a park and near the beach.» Le billet du blogue de l’équipe est aussi intéressant, particulièrement pour la réflexion qu’ils ont mené sur les bienfaits des bureaux fermés et des aires ouvertes: For us, private offices were non-negotiable. Over the years [...]

Les quatre principes fondamentaux de l’Open Space Technology

Depuis plusieurs mois, Copine travaille à la recherche et à la rédaction de son essai: Approches émergentes de facilitation de changement collectif. À quelques jours du point final, j’y ai jeté un oeil pour tomber sur une perle: les quatre principes fondamentaux de l’Open Space Technology, un processus de collaboration qui vise à organiser des [...]