Chris Webb

Not Now Buddy, Daddy’s Negotiating Your Starting Salary

Are you kidding me? I had absolutely no idea this was happening, but according to this Boston Business Journal report (via Kent Blumberg) there are actually parents who call the HR departments of companies where their child is interviewing to pitch their kid! According to nearly 25 percent of the 750 employers responding to the [...]

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Your PR and Marketing Colleagues Don’t Understand Social Media

Do you feel this way? Then point them to this amazing article by Brian Solis. In his Manifesto for Integrating Social Media into Marketing, Brian covers the range of social media concepts and makes the case for engaging customers and participating in conversations using tools such as blogs, social networks, wikis, lifestreams ala [...]

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An Epiphany, Courtesy of Winnie The Pooh

Today I had an “ah ha” moment while reviewing a proposal from a prospective Wrox author. On the last page of the proposal I was confronted with the image you see on the right from AA Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. An odd inclusion for a tech book proposal to be sure, but it was the [...]

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