When I orchestrate a theme week and publish a series of related blogs, it is easy to summarize in a weekend update. This week has been full of distractions and it shows. On the professional side there have been a number of developments that are promising and others that are disappointing. On the personal side, things are also mixed. One online friend was finally successful in her job search and I was thrilled. Another close friend is caring for her father with terminal cancer and my heart is broken for her. So this week, what you see is what you get. I kept my commitment to the reader by showing up every day even if my muse was absent. Next week is a new cycle and I’m begging my muse to cooperate and help me pull it together. We shall see. Meanwhile, catch up on any of this week’s articles that you may have missed. If it generates a comment or two that is why it is there… comments, complaints, criticisms, anything that continues the dialog among professional colleagues.
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June 17 – The A-B-C’s of Bloggingl - I am in awe of writers that are able to produce effortless, coherent, and meaningful thought in their online entries. I follow multiple blog posts and have them pushed to me every day. I find it gratifying that Feedly has filled the RSS shortsightedness of Google after they discontinue Google Reader. I share my reading with others by curating my input into brief posts on my social media accounts using Buffer to broadcast to my colleagues. – more –
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June 18 – Always Look For These Ten Hidden Agenda Items – In an era of so-called political correctness we often assume that the words spilling over someone else’s filters represent the true person they are. Our society condemns a slip of the tongue often without any investigation. It is ironic that we become so intolerant of perceived intolerance. When it is our own filters we are embarrassed and apologetic even if we were provoked. – more –
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June 19 - The Post-Conference Trip Home from Euphoria – Musicians call it dynamics. Most of the conferences that I have attended contained accented notes, a few well placed rests, and heightened emotional crescendos followed by equally moving decrescendos. Dynamics! After any concert when the musicians stop playing those who were immersed in the moment will carry that experience away and relive it for a while afterward. – more –
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June 20 – Covering Cover Letters and Five Things They Say - There is so much conflicting information on the topic of cover letters that it is proof positive of the theory that it is common for experts to disagree on just about everything. If you talk to a career counselor or job coach you will no doubt be told that it can make or break your application. The operative word in that sentence is “can†and the idea that this is a deal killer is somewhat overstated. In spite of claims to the contrary most recruiters do not read cover letters even if they say that they do. – more –
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June 21 - Why Networking Doesn’t Work - History has given modern society the concept that all humans are equal. This is a political truism that has spawned governments and has civilized our culture. It is at the center of our belief system that there is a right and a wrong, a good and a bad in almost everything. Equality is at the very core of who we are. We cringe when some nut-job tries to prove scientifically that one race or gender or nationality is inferior to another. – more –
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