OK, OK, I’m LinkedIn. Nine million of us are. I’m building a fair number of contacts there and have even declined invitations from people I don’t know. So what?
Outside of recruiters viewing the site looking for potential candidates, what have you gotten out of LinkedIn?
I’m missing out on the pimpalicious work tips that must be coming from the site…

So let’s be clear: this Pimp is cynical of anything Corporate. In fact, working in a cube means it is management’s approach to the work and when you get to the nice panel office it is all about sacrificing for the corporation.
It was enlightening, then, to read about Pricewatershouse Coopers asking an old employee back after several years to work the accounting business.
Our hero, Allen Sheffield, eventually left the corporate world to help kids in Detroit. But, keeping in contact with his former employers, he received an offer to come and work on a flexible schedule that would enable him …read more

In the beginning, so to speak, there was brainstorming. And it was good.
It just didn’t work out very well in practice…
Brainstorming is critical to finding innovative ideas that will solve specific problems, both in your personal and business life.
 
The process is simple:

Focus on Quantity of ideas
No criticism
Unusual ideas are welcome
Combine and improve ideas

Kind of like Pimp Your Work, don’t you think?
It’s where the ideas meet the road that the trouble begins. The pitfalls in business are many:

A manager that doesn’t like ideas not invented here.
A department that says ideas are great, but never implements them.
A group that agrees with the …read more

I saw this pic on WebWorkerDaily yesterday and a) had to leave a comment and b) find time to blog it.  Liz took this pic at a local cafe and was struck by all the similar laptops and how the laptop users were all facing in the same direction.  Which, of course, prompted Liz to request more pics from the wild on cafe-geekdom (e-mail them to the blog).
Not too much of this kind of thing here on Pender, but I will be riding the ferries and be over on the much Yuppier Salt Spring on Friday.  I’ll have to remember …read more

Stuck in a career rut? Over climbing the corporate ladder? Running in the rat race? Working the grind? Want some time to reflect? Recalibrate? Re-energize? The folks at careerbreaksite.com wish you would. In fact, they’d love to help you.
This site’s stock piled with articles, checklists, case studies, offers and discounts on everything from what to do with your stuff, what time of year to travel and where to go.
What exactly IS a Career Break? Well it’s not your average two weeks at an all-inclusive in Jamaica, that’s for sure! Here’s the 411 from the pro’s over at CB:
“It’s an opportunity to do …read more