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• Marian Schembari

All networking is good networking. But if you’re wondering why you haven’t gotten any new clients lately or why all you seem to be doing is tweeting about tweeting – reevaluate your engagement…

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• Tamara Burns

I know – you are saying to yourself that this saying doesn't apply to your situation, but as time goes on, you'll realize that it can. As tough as it may be, being laid off opens doors that you may not have opened otherwise.

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• Farida Harianawala

On one hand, the online world has the potential to turn you into an overnight star (yesterday’s story about JetBlue’s flight attendant, Steven Slater) while on the other hand, it can sink your ship in an instant (Remember the video of Domino’s Pizza employees tainting food and consequently, the company’s reputation?)

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• Nathan Lustig

We were curious as to how many Facebook users actually use their real first and last names for their profiles. And when we are curious about something here at Entrustet, it can only mean one thing: blog post! So some of us went through our Facebook friends lists and kept track of the number of friends using fake names for their Facebook profiles. Our sample size was relatively small, but it’s still a good gauge of an answer to the question: how many people use fake names on Facebook?

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• AidenSchade

The job search isn't going well. Finding another accounting job doesn't appeal to me, even if I wasn't doing what I'm doing now. So what do you do when you find yourself in this position? Or is this something that most people don't experience?

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• Everett Bogue

For the last 50 years we woke up, flipped on the TV, and saw what they wanted us to believe. The American Dream was always a lie, it just took us awhile to figure that out.

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• Jenny Blake

I gave my first talk on goal-setting at a bookstore last week and I bombed. My friends and family might tell you otherwise…and several people said afterward that they really got something out of it, but in my heart and gut I know that I bombed. No amount of excuses – tired, busy, just starting out – could make up for how lame I felt. And by lame, I mean totally and utterly disappointed in myself.

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• Nikita T. Mitchell

If you are anything like me, this is the question that sometimes pops up like the little devil on your left shoulder in a cartoon. For those of us do-gooders out here making our way through Corporate America, there are times when you feel as though you aren’t truly committed to change simply because you don’t spend the bulk of your work week with the “right” type of organization, whether it be a social venture, non-profit, or government agency.

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• Rebecca Thorman

Tech Crunch founder Michael Arrington argued in “Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Blaming Men” that he and other men already do plenty for women: he has a female CEO, two out of four of his senior editors are women, and he begs and pleads for women to speak at his conferences.

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• Maren Hogan

I’ve been thinking a little bit about conferences lately. It’s no secret that I love a good conference, unconference, meetup or tweetup. There’s just something about this social gal that enjoys meeting and greeting, dressing up, cruising the booths and drinking sponsored booze. But conferences are more than that. Having been part of organizing several myself and working with others who do so, I know the amount of work that goes into conferences (and unconferences). It’s a TON of work. In this day of full time connectivity, smart phones, online communities, microblogging, face time and Skype, why are we still so eager to pack a bag, jump on a plane, get a hotel room and spend 2, 3,4 days in social “go mode”?

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• Ryan Paugh

Today, we're really proud to show you all a video recap of our first—and definitely not our last—Crowdsource Your Career event. The outcome was nothing less than astounding and all that I can say is wow!

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• Emily Jasper

This is an interesting time for women in business right now. You have great leaders who are impacting the world, but they live in environments where the negative stereotypes make it impossible to realize the progress. You can still find the early pioneers, making the way for women behind them. Some may have had to become “one of the guys” just to gain a little attention. Others were the ceiling breakers who worked hard to make that ladder longer. You have generations of women who bullied others, especially if they took the attitude of, “I got here on my own, you can too.”

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• Thursday Bram

Over the weekend, I went to Fan Expo in Toronto, which required a nine-hour drive up from Maryland. The drive wasn’t bad and, over the course of the weekend, I made some observations about writing that are going to be worthwhile.

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• Josh Allan Dykstra

We often think the world needs a certain “something” from us. We go out of our way to give it that “something” we think it needs, and it slowly kills us, little by little.

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• Mehnaz Thawer

I have been thinking a lot about responsibility and “owning it” these days. It’s the kind of headspace I’m in at the moment. Then I read (as happens rather serendipitously) this post by Elisa about being the author of your own life. I noted that beyond anything else, the overarching theme in such posts has been the concept of accountability. In other words, owning your actions and taking responsibility for the trajectory of your own life.

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