Associated Press: WIXOM (AP) — Ford Motor Co. Chairman Bill Ford Jr. and Gov. Jennifer Granholm will share details of a plan to redevelop a closed auto plant near Detroit and convert it into the nation’s largest renewable energy park. Ford and Granholm will be at the site Thursday with officials from Xtreme Power of
Read More...Successes are more informative than failures. If you succeed, everything has gone right, so there’s a lot more information in successes than failures. The brain probably evolved to take advantage of successes because there’s more information there. —Earl K. Miller, professor of neuroscience at MIT, in “We Learn More From Success, Not Failure” Two sides
Read More...Here’s a little something that nicely striates the nerd/geek/dork/dweeb population into something of a hierarchy. Everyone should be gunning for geek, yes? (Via Chris)
Read More...I’m out of town this week without much of a consistent Internet connection, and I haven’t had any time to scour the web for the usual bits of greatness that I usually do. So, in sneaking bits here and there between obligations, here are some things you should click on. Really. Do it for my
Read More...I get asked how to follow MiPro on Twitter, and for that I have several answers. @mipro – our main Twitter account for all of MIPRO Consulting. This is where I route most of our commentary, discussion and blog post announcements. @jmicallef – One of MiPro’s founding partners. @japrokes – Another one of MiPro’s founding
Read More...Couldn’t resist sharing this. (Via Larry Zagata)
Read More...We’ve talked about PeopleSoft Real Estate Management (REM) before, but I want to take a moment to highlight an example of two common pains that many companies endure before realizing they need a full REM solution. Like everything else, this is an exercise in tipping points: your tools work well enough until one day, frustration
Read More...BNET’s Drew Kerr: Well-written press releases have lost much of their power to generate actual news coverage. Journalists suffering from information overload rarely have the time to slog through the number of pitches they receive daily, so publicists bank on their relationships with them to get coverage. If press releases have any potency now, it
Read More...Go figure: focusing on a dozen things poorly, running from fragmented job to fragmented job, trying to shift mindsets from tactical to strategic and struggling to figure out where you left a certain task might have long-term negative effects. After jumping through the mental hoops, the researchers found that the heavy multimedia users were at
Read More...Thought-provoking and spot-on post by Amber Riviere over at Web Worker Daily: Yesterday, I read the “Unconventional Guide to the Social Web,” and although I found a lot of useful information in it, one quote has stuck with me since reading it: “Your blog is your mothership. Don’t neglect it for lesser tools.” This is
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