Archive for September, 2011

Quote o’ the Day

Friday, September 30th, 2011

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
Frank Sinatra

Small Businesses Want Social Media Experts

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Nearly as much as they want bookkeepers, according to this infographic from All Twitter about how small businesses use social media, which includes a lot of similarly interesting info.

Watch it Wednesday

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

It might have been a scene out of The Big Bang Theory except it’s some for-real flashmob fun: Hundreds of Star Wars fans conduct a light sabre battle Monday night in New York City’s Washington Square Park. HuffPo reports.

Now Online: The Dead Sea Scrolls

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Bloomberg reports. See them here.

How To …

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Bloomberg Businessweek has published its “First Annual How To Guide” (of course, you can’t really have a “first annual” anything, but that’s a grammar argument for another time) that provides things like Mika Brzezinski explaining how to get a raise, Mark Penn explaining how to handle a crisis and someone calling him or herself P1X37F0X explaining how to hack the Pentagon.

A lot of the “advice” sounds a lot like the business plan put forth by the South Park gnomes, but it generally makes for fun reading. And if you’re interested in how to tweet, Dwayne Johnson explains in 140 characters or less.