Home / Tag Archives: person (page 16)

Tag Archives: person

Feed Subscription

Jason Sadler Will Wear Your Shirt, Make You Want To Retweet

Jason Sadler of marketing company I Wear Your Shirt might look merely like a chiseled dude who gets paid to wear T-shirts by various companies, but in reality, he's taking "a humanistic approach to talking about brands." At our recent Innovation Uncensored event, he broke it down for us once again after winning an impromptu challenge issued to the crowd--the person who could get the most retweets for an #iu11 -tagged message got to join Fast Company's Ellen McGirt on stage for a panel discussion. Sadler's winning retweet?

Read More »

8 Tricks of the Trade Show

Whether you're attending your first trade show or you 50th, these tips will help your company stand out and succeed. Some companies who think of trade shows as an expense attend to defend their turf from new competition.

Read More »

State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

Read More »

How to Hire an Assistant

My desk used to have a very large pile of envelopes stacked in the corner. It included notices from various agencies in the states in which our employees live, pitches from would-be business partners, personal correspondence, and too many other things to list. Under the desk was a box, which contained all of the stuff that had been crowded off my desk

Read More »

3 Mobile-Advertising Services

With so many people using smartphones, everyone is searching for ways to reach would-be customers on mobile apps and websites. Here are three mobile-advertising services tailored for different business needs

Read More »

Why You Should Delegate

Sachin Agarwal, the founder of Posterous, a blog hosting service, got bogged down in the numbers as his company grew. Then, he writes ( blog.posterous.com ), he got smart: He hired a CFO. "Last month our new CFO came into the office and I transferred all the finance knowledge that was in my head over to her.

Read More »

7 Tips for Hiring Older Workers

Baby boomers have been nicknamed the "Silver Tsunami" for their impact on every facet of society. Now, as 76,000,000 of them reach age 60 and beyond, it seems they either can't or don't want to stop working.

Read More »

How to Handle a Disability Claim

Workers get hurt all the time, both on the job and off. In 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 1,238,490 injury or illness cases in the United States requiring days away from work to recuperate.

Read More »

Watson Looks for Work

A team of IBM researchers spent four years building Watson, a computer system clever enough to beat the best Jeopardy players in the world.

Read More »
Scroll To Top