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Digital Project Manager, Fast Company Marketing: Fast Company's growing Marketing team seeks an experienced Digital Project Manager to oversee strategic planning and day-to-day implementation of custom advertising opportunities with the Brand. The ideal candidates will be creative digital thinkers with experience with online ad operations and ad sales (mobile experience a plus) along with a familiarity with the breadth of technologies and processes used in online advertising
Read More »Pakistan Torches National Firewall Plans
The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime.
Read More »Pakistan Torches National Firewall Plans
The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime. Earlier this week, the Pakistani government announced that they were canceling plans to build a national Internet filter similar to China's “Great Firewall.” The massive firewall would have blocked up to 50 million URLs and, if completed, would have been one of the largest online censorship projects in history
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project
Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently?
Read More »6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project
Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently? Make sure your team understands what success should look like. If you run a project-based business like mine , you know that there are any number of things that can get between you and the successful end of the project: budget, bureaucracy, poor team dynamics, just to name a few.
Read More »6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project
Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently? Make sure your team understands what success should look like. If you run a project-based business like mine , you know that there are any number of things that can get between you and the successful end of the project: budget, bureaucracy, poor team dynamics, just to name a few
Read More »6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project
Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently? Make sure your team understands what success should look like. If you run a project-based business like mine , you know that there are any number of things that can get between you and the successful end of the project: budget, bureaucracy, poor team dynamics, just to name a few
Read More »Good Bosses Are The Same Today As They Were In 1992
In a world of near-constant innovation and disruption, the definition of a great boss (or leader or manager) may be the one thing that doesn't require reinvention. This is the fourth in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times best-seller by Robert Sutton . Read the three other installments here .
Read More »5 More Habits of Customer-Obsessed Companies
Firms like Intuit, eBay, and PayPal are intensely focused on improving online user experience. Here's five more ways you can be, too. I recently posted the Top 5 Habits of Customer-Obsessed Companies , gleaned from the work done at my digital consultancy, AnswerLab, with companies who dominate the digital space like LinkedIn, Intuit, and eBay
Read More »South Africa Wins Panel’s Backing to Host Square-Kilometer-Array Scope
A scientific panel has narrowly recommended South Africa over Australia as the best site for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an enormous radio telescope (see " Astronomy in South Africa: The long shot ").
Read More »Are You Raising Too Much Money?
Why overindulging in capital can be the worst thing for your start-up's health Which do you think is a better predictor of your company’s future? To have such a great concept that investors throw $400 million at you to bring it to life? Or to face enough skepticism that you can squeeze out just $9 million over multiple rounds of funding
Read More »What The Hell Is Project Management, Anyway?
"Project management" can sound like everything and nothing all at once. We spoke with a project management pro to clarify what it really means to get people moving in the same direction.
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