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| | HAROLD JARCHE AUGUST 8, 2011 Those hard soft-skills Tweet Soft skills , especially collaboration and networking, will become more important than traditional hard skills. Smart employers have always focused more on attitude than any specific skill-set because they know they can train for a lack of skills and knowledge. Soft skills require time, mentoring, informal learning and management support. | | COLLABORATION 2.0 AUGUST 8, 2011 Riotous times Digital tools of choice in a world where our social fabric is rapidly changing can be used to market jeans or orchestrate looting | | | | | | | |
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PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 Our Obsession with Scoring is Now Taking on Individuals on the Web
I had not been paying too much attention to Klout until I saw this article in the New York Times, Got Twitter? You’ve Been Scored. skimmed it and tweeted about it to save the link for further reading. then go through my tweets twice a month and it gives me an overview of what I thought was important during this time. MORE >> -
 US equities: zero gains over the last 12 years, how about the next 12 years?
In my misspent youth I worked in international equities sales for Merrill Lynch. That was when I was first introduced to the Capital Asset Pricing Model that still underpins investment analysis today. Aong other things the model suggests that the return on an investment needs to be commensurate with its risk to attract investors. MORE >> -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011  Skype updates Mac client, adds HD video
Skype just dropped an update for its Mac client. Version 5.3 includes support for HD video, so long as your Mac is equipped with one of the new FaceTime HD cameras introduced in MacBook Pros earlier this year, or a third-party USB camera that supports HD resolution. Along with the usual bug fixes, the update also brings full Lion compatibility. MORE >> -
NANCY WHITE | MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011  Monday Video: A mini-course on network and social network literacy
From the inimitable Howard Rheingold! mini-course on network and social network literacy – howardrheingold’s posterous. I’ve become convinced that understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy. Monday videos networks social media MORE >> -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 Surprise poll: small businesses not into social media (yet)
As we’ve been discussing here at this site for some time, there are tangible business benefits being realized from adoption of social media platforms as part of a comprehensive Enterprise 2.0 strategy. However, this is a message that is not getting through to small businesses. Hiscox, an insurance company. Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>
- The State Street View on Impact of Emerging Technology on Financial Services THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011
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