First Friday Book Synopsis - October

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend this month’s First Friday Book Synopsis, but please don’t let that stop you from going .
If you’ve never been to a FFBS, Randy Mayeux and Karl Krayer promise to “take you through two books, cover-to-cover, in just one hour.” As one participant said, it is like [...]

Chimby search engine

I just recently discovered Chimby, an innovative career advice search engine. What exactly is Chimby? According to the site:
CHIMBY is a vertical search engine that lets you search over 400 career advice sites at once. We crawl the sites of career coaches, career blogs and other media sources in order to provide the best answers [...]

Mensa? Try Mesa instead

While editing a book manuscript recently, I ran the requisite spell-check on the document and got a humorous (at least I thought so) spelling suggestion.
How much faith do you put in a spelling dictionary that does not recognize the word Mensa?

Introducing Jobfox

I just discovered this really cool new career site called Jobfox, and wanted to pass it along. You can read more about it in this Forbes.com article.
The site is designed to compete directly with the mega job boards Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. One might think it is crazy to take on these giants, unless you consider [...]

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