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Prune Your Network Day 2: Electric Boogaloo
It’s been a long time, since October of 2011 to be specific, since we brought this topic up. With the impending long weekend, it seems like a good time to remind you that your network has a lot in common with the trees, plants and shrubs around your house. Sometimes, you have to cut off…
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It’s All About Perspective…
So here we are in May of 2010…and it’s time for a little flashback so that perspective can be gained…or maintained, as the case may be. Our smaller events these days get anywhere from 120 to 150 people at them. Our larger Pink Slip Party events run anywhere from 500 to 600 or more. We’ve…
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Ann Arbor Give Camp Needs Sponsors and Volunteers!
We’re always up for helping a good cause…and this looks to be a solid opportunity to do some good. Ann Arbor Give Camp is a weekend-long event where IT professionals from all over Michigan and neighboring states get together to help non-profits with their IT needs. Non-profits have serious technology needs that they often cannot…
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Twitter versus Facebook
So I think I finally figured Twitter out (yea, I know). It’s not like I over-use it now, but the sky has cleared and I think I finally “get it”. With that said, it is absolutely amazing to me how different the cultures the two platforms are to the user-base. Literally night and day. So…
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Shall We Play A Game?
“How do you not snap and scream at people in meetings?” – a former coworker When my very first That Guy entry I ever wrote recently bubbled up, I was reminded of a more recent event that might help people. A little while ago, a coworker looked at me across the lunchroom table and asked: “How do…
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Episode IV: A New Hope
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… It is a period of great unrest. A rebel networking group, striking from a not-so-hidden base in Royal Oak have won their first victory against useless job fairs and horrible networking groups. During a conversation late one night, the rebels stumble upon the plans for…
