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With dozens of new industry standards added, updated or withdrawn since the 11th edition in 2004, it's more essential than ever to have an up-to-date reference ... book with comprehensive details of current steel types and their properties.   [More...] [Less...]

Yahoo: Who's Leaving and Why - BusinessWeek 

Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? - ReadWriteWeb 

You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world ... - being social is becoming an important full time job. "Community Manager" is a position being hired for at a good number of large corporations (see Jeremiah Owyang's growing list of people with that kind of job) but what about smaller companies? We asked a number of people what they thought and the following discussion offers some great things to think about, pro and con. What Is a Community Manager? A community manager can do many things (see below) but the most succinct definition of the role that we can offer is this. A community manager is someone who communicates with a company's users/customers, development team and executives and other stake holders in order to clarify and amplify the work of all parties. They probably provide customer service, highlight best use-cases of a product, make first contact in some potential busin   [More...] [Less...]

Why Google Employees Quit 

In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts ... to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names. The thread shows a brutal honesty about what it’s like to work at Google, at least from the point of view of employees who were unhappy enough to resign. Top amongst the complaints is low pay relative to what they could earn elsewhere, and disappearing fringe benefits seemed to elevate the concern. Other popular gripes - too much bureaucracy, poor management, poor mentoring, and a hiring process that took months. A few of the posts are more positive, and frankly there isn’t a whole lot here that you don’t see in other big companies. One message stands out though in most of the posts - employees thought they were entering the promised land when they joined Google, and most of them were disappointed. Some of them   [More...] [Less...]

AT&T Labs Research 

AT&T Labs - Research is one of the premier telecommunications laboratories in the world, leading research in the frontiers of science from the invention ... of new communications concepts and tools to the incubation of new services. Building on over 80 years of leadership across all areas of communications, we continue to produce innovative technology that differentiates AT&T's services and operations. Come explore our world! Researcher Aids in Massive Madagascar Conservation Initiative Labs researcher Steven Phillips collaborated with Wildlife Conservation Society scientists in a Madagascar conservation study. As a scientist interested in machine learning, Steven developed software for modeling species distributions. The team used this software to learn to recognize environment conditions that are suitable for a specific species. The software also helped design resilient networks of protected areas. The study is a cover story in Science magazine. Also read more in the press release . AT&T   [More...] [Less...]

Suits Up, Geeks Down: The Latest Tech Hiring Numbers - Jobwire 

Hires of software developers and web designers slowed last week, while tech and new media company hires for Director level positions increased substantially ... over the six weeks prior. Developers and designers still remained among the season's most in-demand people in tech while marketing and IT firms saw big increases in hires. We've tracked these and other interesting stats and stories about people still getting jobs at a time of economic downturn. Check out our chart-laden full coverage below of last week's and this season's new hires in tech and new media. Fewer But Still Many Geeks Wanted A number of companies appointed new CEOs last week and the steady flow of new Vice Presidents of one thing or another remained consistent, but we noted a substantial increase in the . These mid-level operators came in at a time when developer and designer hires slowed significantly, though the balance of hires between the two this Fall still leans towards the geeks and artists. First Publishing Sec   [More...] [Less...]

Top 10 Steve Jobs Quotes « Marketing Nirvana 

Like my post? Follow me on Twitter . Now, why didn’t I do this before! A perfect way to combine my love of management philosophy and all things Apple, ... by churning out a playlist of Jobs’ Top 10 quotes. What started it all, was this recent article in Fortune Magazine that comes on the heels of Apple being selected as America’s Most Admired Company. But what I unearthed there was a slew of golden quotes from Jobs himself, who has quickly replaced Jack Welch as the one business celebrity I’d like to meet (although I came pretty close to that in the past). To make it easier to consume, I’ve broken down the quotes into two sets of five each (one set on Management and the other on Leadership). Read and Learn, my friends! Steve Jobs’ Top 10 Quotes (after the jump) 5 Management Mantras #10. On Management My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key pr   [More...] [Less...]