There seems to be a new threat out there from our friends in the great white north. Check out the article below. Click the link.
Six Trends Driving the Global Economy
I was just updating the news section on my companies website, (Blackbird e-Solutions) and I came across a series of articles on Wired.com. They ran a poll for the most important BIZ/TECH trends for 2007. The top six are as follows:
The Power of Peer Production
Video Unlimited
Made to Order
Carbon Killers
M&A as R&D
The Open Everything Economy
There’s some very interesting stuff in these articles.
Top 5 Reasons to get LinkedIn!
5. Ever hear of “6 Degrees of Separation?”
4. You can reconnect with former colleagues/friends/college classmates.
3. To make new business contacts.
2. To promote yourself and/or business.
And the #1 reason to join LinkedIn.com
Life truly is about who you know!
What is LinkedIn.com?
It’s a networking site geared towards helping people make business contacts. For example: Let’s say I’m looking to hire someone that is an expert web developer. Now, I have a friend/colleague named John and we are connected in LinkedIn John knows a guy that he used to work with named Frank, he has just the skills I need. Since I’m connected with John I can see who he is connected with. So I ask him to introduce me, and presto! I already have a candidate who is recommended by someone I trust. Simple networking, but this is location and time independent.
The Affect of Drugs on Spiders. A Canadian Science Experiment
Check out the link below for a short video that details a little-known Canadian experiment highlighting the affects that various drugs have on the behavior of spiders. … it’s actually very interesting.
EIGHT THINGS TO PONDER FOR 2007
#8 Life is sexually transmitted.
#7 Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.
#6 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.
#5 Some people are like a slinky… not really good for anything, but you still can’t help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
#4 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
#3 Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars, and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents???
#2 In the 60’s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
# 1 THOUGHT FOR 2007: We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America; but we haven’t a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of U.S. immigration.