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Meetings, Time, Workplace Time Waster, And Actually Getting Work

It is the easiest thing in the world to be busy, in the thick of thin things, to major in the minors. But believing that busy-ness is the same as productivity is folly. You can be busy, certainly; but you can still be far from productive.
Attending loads of meetings can keep you very busy. Ideally…

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Lead Generation Campaign, Bad Idea, Data Experts, And Don'ts

Four data experts break down the do’s and don’ts of how marketers can make the most of the data that’s served to them directly.
Too often we move on to the next lead generation campaign before the previous one has realized its full potential. Here’s why that’s a bad idea….

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Atlanta, Mob Waka Flocka Gucci Mane The List, Famous Atlanta, And Martin Luther King

When you think about Atlanta, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a flashback to those Bravo commercials you’ve seen with The Real Housewives. But forget NeNe and Kandi — Atlanta is much more than fake-brawling and McMansion suburbs. This city is one of the most amazing cities in America…

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Drop Dropbox Campaign, Ramez Naam, Google Motto, And Evil Person

Techies hate politics. Well, no: we hate the idea of politics. Whenever I talk to pretty much anyone in the industry about politics as a sphere of human endeavor, from individual coders to zillionaire VCs, pained expressions cross their faces and they rush to distance themselves from the whole toxi…

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Silicon Valley, Mentions Rain, Silly Mistakes, And Entrepreneurial Idiot

When investor money and tech blog mentions rain down, startups can make silly mistakes, like blowing all their cash on a mechanical dinosaur. The cast of HBO’s Silicon Valley came to SXSWi, the mecca of startups, to deliver on-point advice for not being a entrepreneurial idiot.
See also: Anti-Text…

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