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March 2006 - Posts

What's an eggcorn? You know, the thing that chipmunks eat? No?

Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:27 PM by HeatherLeigh
So I am not the only one bothered by eggcorns. "Should of" drives me nuts. Yeah, eggcorns are the real reason I try not to speak too flowery-like. I notice them all the time and just hope that I don't commit the sin. As a result, I'm "like a bowl in a Read More...
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Business Innovations

Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:57 PM by HeatherLeigh
Or as Business 2.0 puts it, "Best 'best practices'". Keep in mind that they referred to one of the practices as a "Strategic Strategy Review". I hope that they were kidding but I bet they weren't. Regardless, the article is full of interesting ideas for Read More...
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Credibility and what I'm not (oh where is Edie Brickell when you need a theme song to a post?)

Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:09 PM by HeatherLeigh
I think I may had read one or two too many condescending blog posts lately. Let's be frank (unless Frank objects and then we'll pick someone else): there's ego involved in blogging. I'm not saying that all bloggers gave huge egos (egoes...leggo my ego?), Read More...
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The difference between companies that WANT their employees to blog and companies that ALLOW their employees to blog

Posted Monday, March 27, 2006 8:17 AM by HeatherLeigh
Julian, over at Exceler8ion, discusses corporate blogging policies. I'm with Julian. I'd be hard-pressed to find a corporate blogging policy longer than a sentence or 2 that doesn't totally stink. I think that if you dig beneath all the wordy lists of Read More...
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Stop the presses!

Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 7:41 AM by HeatherLeigh
What, there are no more presses? Stop the web servers . You gotta love it when news headlines trail reality by a couple of years (kind of like the President using the word "blog" in a speech yesterday...ahhhh!). I'm seriously thinking of starting a blog Read More...
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What I know about bread (not the musical group, not the benjamins)

Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:19 PM by HeatherLeigh
I'm slightly obsessed with bread. Problem is I love it but most of it isn't that great for you. When I was a kid, we never had that gooey Wonder Bread that all my friends had. We had the kind of bread with sticks and thorns protruding from the loaf. Turns Read More...
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An opportunity to do actual marketing in our staffing department

Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:57 AM by HeatherLeigh
Remember recently how I said I am not a "marketer"? And remember how I talked about collaborating with the team responsible for true "marketing" in staffing at Microsoft (the people who write the marketing plans so I don't have tooooo)? There's an opportunity Read More...
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IM Angst

Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:22 PM by HeatherLeigh
Rant time: What’s the deal with people you have never met before IMing you? This is analogous to interrupting a potentially important conversation (let’s not pretend all of my conversations are important but some of them are...some are event important Read More...
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A day late and sixpence short

Posted Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:34 PM by HeatherLeigh
But Éireann go Brách (or Erin go Braugh, if you prefer)! Read More...
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Shaking things up

Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:40 PM by HeatherLeigh
I love hearing about Ray Ozzie shaking things up at Microsoft . Let's face it, outside experience brings fresh perspective. Previous success means that the shaker isn't too intimidated to challenge the status quo. Well, any kind of significant success Read More...
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"Can you connect me with someone at Microsoft?"

Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 8:52 AM by HeatherLeigh
I'm getting more and more mail from folks that want to be connected with someone at Microsoft to talk about sponsorship deals, business opportunities, employee rewards (at least 5 phone calls on this one)...the list goes on. They are trying to sell something. Read More...
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The year of collaborative thinking

Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:20 PM by HeatherLeigh
People talk about collaboration all the time. It's not that easy. People come to the table with differing agendas, value different opportunities differently, they bring different skills...do I even need to mention "opinions" or...(gulp) "feelings"? In Read More...
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Oopsy

Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:31 PM by HeatherLeigh
So Mark Jen is fired from google for blogging about confidential financial info (that was the reason they gave). Blogs have no editorial process. Someone accidentally posts google's financial forecast , you know the kind they won't release publicly because Read More...
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A Hundred Little Victories

Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:44 PM by HeatherLeigh
OK, this post is going to be all over the place, but stick with me because there is a theme: a hundred little victories. And a sub-theme: Heather mentally composes blog posts on the treadmill. Yesterday, I wrote up my mid-year review (not really a review, Read More...
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Fear in the heart of one sedentary blogger

Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 10:54 AM by HeatherLeigh
Today is my first official session with my personal trainer. I'm scared. He referred to me as "sedentary" and then told me it was his job not to lie to me. That's when I knew that he was the personal trainer for me. I suspect that his willingness to humor Read More...
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How I know I am different than other people (blog metrics)

Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 9:24 AM by HeatherLeigh
I don't care about blog metrics. Oh yeah, page views are *interesting* and it's always cool to hear that one of my blog readers has been hired. But when it comes right down to it, for me, blog metrics are little more than trivia. I've been involved in Read More...
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The relationship between who you link to and who you read

Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:24 PM by HeatherLeigh
Today, I cleaned up my blog roll. I think I could call it an annual event since it's been quite a while. I deleted broken links and also some blogs that have been abandoned or whose topic has changed enough that they aren't as relevant to my space anymore. Read More...
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Microsoft Researcher and Academy Award Winner?

Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:43 PM by HeatherLeigh
Sounds funny, but it's true. Must meet John Platt because I really like Kevin Bacon. Read More...
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"Top" Business Schools...You decide what "top" means

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:44 PM by HeatherLeigh
An AIRS e-mail newsletter I received today included a link to CareerJournal's listings of "top business schools" . When people talk, or blog, about the "top" this or that, I always question the authority (aww, come on, questioning authority is good, right? Read More...
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