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from Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog by Dan McSwain
Claiborne Pell, a Rhode Island senator whose achievements brought about lasting change both at home and abroad, died on January 1st, 2009, at the age of 90.
In a statement, Vice President-elect Joe Biden honored Sen. Pell’s many accomplishments, noting that, “few Senators have done more [...]
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from today’s issue of WWJ’s Great Lakes IT Report:
Review: New MacBook puts style over affordability
Plastic used to be the sexy material of the future. Now, it’s the cheap, ugly material of the past. Just look at the effort Apple Inc. put into getting rid of plastic when designing its new $1,300 MacBook laptops, which went [...]
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This excerpt from CIO.com:
1. Business is competitive. Deal with it.
Edelman interviewed Sam DiPiazza Jr., the CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, for his book. DiPiazza had this to say about business, according to Edelman: “Business, whether we like it or not, includes competition. It’s challenging, aggressive and very demanding. Despite the perception of many, it can also be [...]
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[Courtesy of NonProfit Times]
The most important aspect to evaluating an executive is providing time for thoughtful conversation, according to Donna F. Vickers and Kelly Stevelt Kaser in “Evaluating Your Executive: New Approaches, New Purposes,” published by The Academy of Leadership & Governance in Columbus, Ohio.
Grading an executive’s performance without conversation about what it means is [...]
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U-M Launches New Information Age Major: Informatics
University of Michigan undergraduates have a new major on their list of choices, one highly relevant in this age: Informatics. Informatics is the study of information and the ways people and social systems use it. Experts in this field design information technology tools for scientific, business, and cultural needs, [...]
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I don’t usually boast anything Microsoft, but thought these thoughts were generally helpful no matter what your platform — and there are tools out there to accomplish all these things below on ANY platform!
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A few years back, personal coach Maya Talisman and husband Tom Frost, a jewelry importer and distributor, decided to move their his-and-hers [...]
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In all the hub-bubb of our daily lives, I wanted to share this bit of reading with you:
Time Shifting vs Time Management, Stephan Rechtschaffen
“I’ve observed over the years that many people in our culture experience not having enough time in daily life. The feelings: frustration, anxiety, panic, pressure, stress. It’s as if somebody yelled “Fire!”-and [...]
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In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more virtual socializing on the Web. Google debuted a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in fantasy rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life. The service, called “Lively,” [...]
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Oakland Community College and the West Bloomfield School District last week announced the opening of Oakland County’s first “early college” high school, Oakland Early College. OEC is a public school open to all Oakland County students, regardless of district of residency. Early colleges blend secondary and post-secondary education, adding a year to high school in [...]
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