This blog started as a class assignment and morphed into a strange after school project, now I’m not sure what it is… but I’ll try to update it more often.
I’ll probably take a holistic approach to marketing, technology, and whatever that interests me. For example, take the image above. It’s from Smashing Magazine’s website.
Either way, it’ll be good stuff… so stick around.
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Malcolm Gladwell’s latest work, Outliers: The Story of Success, is great. His interview with Charlie Rose just scratches the surface of its content.
I love the section on expertise. What makes someone an expert? Research shows that expertise – in any given field – is reached only after a minimum of 10,000-hours, roughly 10-years, of practice. I’m into it.
Gladwell goes deeper on the subject of genius in his conversation with Robert Krulwich at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Robert Krulwich is a superior interviewer (sorry Charlie) and keeps the conversation flowing.
Main take away: live what you love.
Countdown one year to graduation and into the real world. I want to go into brand management, and have been thinking about graduate school, law school, and maybe even nursing. There’s just so much out there still to do!
Thankfully Path 101 Career Discovery is here to help. It’s an online personality test made to assess you’re career compatibility. My score is below.
Highest Scoring Traits
Lowest Scoring Traits
Like-minded people work in:
Sales, Commercial Banking, Automotive and Transportation, Computer Hardware and Infrastructure, Laboratory Sciences
See julieatty’s full assessment and get your own.
The personality test has me pegged, but sales? No thank you.
Conclusion: a fun way to pass the time; don’t believe everything you read.
After clicking around for a while, I stumbled upon SmashingApps.com
It has both paid and free services from around the web.
Highly recommended.
When I first read the New York Times article, Putting a Bloder Face on Google, Marissa Mayer’s job sounded unreal.
Mayer is the person who keeps Google running smoothly. “Almost every new feature or design, from the wording on a Google page to the color of a Google toolbar, must pass muster with her or legions of Google users will never see it” (Holson). She is Google’s brand manager.
Now, after seeing her interview with Charlie Rose, I officially want her job. It’s out of this world. She lives in San Fransisco, gets to analyze, collaborate, and impliment, ideas that change the way people communicate, is continually advancing Google’s appearance, and has spare time to read. Where do I sign up?
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I was a skeptic. Twitter seemed like a bunch of meaningless facebook status updates from boring people who update the world on what they had for breakfast. Then, I saw Common Craft’s Twitter in Plain English video and decided to give it a try.
I was wrong. Twitter is a forum for sharing ideas and breaking news. It all depends on who you follow,of course… so if you want to hear how people feel about their breakfast cereal, you can get that too.
By following Harvard Business School I get their latest articles and opinions on current issues, by following Tiny Buddha I get daily piece of mind, and by following Tina Fey I get a good laugh every once in a while.
So if you’re still on the fence about Twitter, from one former skeptic to another, try it.
