Believe it or not, the founder of Reddit also has to avoid spending all day killing time on Reddit. Here's his advice for staying productive. Reddit is arguably the most successful social news site on the Internet
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Feed SubscriptionThe Painful Paradox Of Facebook Advertising Vs. Super Bowl Advertising
There’s a delectable irony in the fact that Facebook’s IPO was announced the same week as the Super Bowl. While they are both the subject of obsessive media attention, they actually represent two radically different versions of the future of branding and advertising.
Read More »3 Lessons From the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Disaster
The foundation's recent public relations mess offers valuable takeaways for small businesses. Last week, we saw one of the country’s most well-known cancer research advocacy organizations, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, go from being revered to reviled.
Read More »Shy? 3 Ways to Use It to Your Advantage
A communication coach offers a bevy of tips on how entrepreneurs who don't naturally excel at self-promotion can shed their cloak of invisibility and get noticed.
Read More »Marketing Lessons From An Accidental Con Man
In a previous Fast Company article , I wrote about hitchhiking. Specifically, what I’ve learned about hitching a ride in semi-rural South Africa and how these strategies apply to marketing. I learned something by accident last month that took my thumbing skills to a whole new level
Read More »Be Like Mark: 8 Ways To Emulate Facebook’s Zuckerberg, The Unlikely Leader
Whether you love him , hate him , or are just a little jealous of his newly minted multi-billionaire status, you have to admit that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook , has made some visionary leadership moves. In less than 10 years, Zuckerberg’s taken an idea for an online social network from his Harvard dorm room and delivered it into the homes, offices, pockets, and purses (via mobile phones) of 845 million users around the world
Read More »Votizen Brings The Empowerment Of The Internet To Elections
Before political campaigns were all over blogs, Meetup.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, there was USA.gov, cofounded by David Binetti in 2000. The site, which was the platform for the first ever webcast from the Oval Office, is now the U.S
Read More »5 Ways an iPad Can Fix Your Meetings
The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint.
Read More »Are Your Workers Conning You?
Think your team is devoted and loyal? These harrowing tales might make you think twice before overlooking your employee's bad behavior. Last week, I posted a gallery describing the 6 ways that employees manipulate their bosses
Read More »Tech Trends to Watch, from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
CES 2012: Intel to Power Smart Phones, Create Ultrabook-Tablet Hybrid Devices [More]
Read More »The 2-Minute Move That Will Elevate Your Personal Brand
When it comes to building your own personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our digital love.
Read More »The Face of Success, Part 3: Women and Venture Capital
Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.
Read More »Why Innovation Needs Academia
It's in style to dismiss business school, and higher education in general, as unnecessary. But our company wouldn't exist without it.
Read More »The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance
Do you enjoy having time to yourself, but always feel a little guilty about it? Then Susan Cain’s “ Quiet : The Power of Introverts ” is for you
Read More »4 Great 3-D Projectors
Your presentations won't fail to wow the crowd.
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