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Kenan Samms
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Be social and the networking will follow.

Oxymoron of the week: 'Let's incorporate social networking".  Just look at that sentence!Incorporate. Social. Like saying,  "Let's engineer some fun." I hear this sentence uttered a lot these days, in corridors, over ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Feldenkrais: The slow road to success in the fast lane

I just attended an introductory workshop on the Feldenkrais Method. The movements are slow. Very slow. In a typical "lesson", you move a limb just the tiniest amount, maybe an inch or less, then move it back. Then compare how your ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Megabank Miscalculations: Still treating people like numbers after all these years

Last week in my post about coupon clippers I posted a photo of a sign I came across in Georgia. Once more with feeling: Smile Call customers by their names Thank them for their businessWe all recoil from cheesy and insincere ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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New York, New York: If can make it there, I'll not make it elsewhere

Update 8 Aug 2009: The decline of New York's garment district courtesy of the New York TimesStart spreading the news, I'm investing todayI want to be a part of it - New York, New YorkThese vulturous CEOs, are going awayBanished from ...READ»

Kenan Samms

The Longest Line in NYC: Women for Hire Job Fair

We interrupt this program for a report from the cold, hard pavement outside your window. WATCH MOVIE if you can bear to ... A jobseeking friend invited me to join her at a Women for Hire Career Fair at the Sheraton New ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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The Recession Ripple Effect: A little pay cut goes a long way

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."   If ever there was a time to seriously ask yourself that question, cobwebby nostalgia aside, it's now.   This story: ...READ»

Kenan Samms

When good news is good news: A Hudson River plane crash in a recession

It's been almost a month since newly wikified Chesley B. Sullenberger III (one of the guys in the attached photo, don't mind which) executed a perfect duck dive. And unless cross-haired by a man in a tweedy peaked cap, ducks always ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Obamabilia: Royalty-free "Kind Eyes" Already Stimulating the Economy

YOU SHOW me yours, and I'll show mine. My Obamabilia, that is. I just watched a CNN story on the Mt McKinley-sized dune of opportunistic landfill featuring Obama's face, "with kind eyes," according to an ad for ornamental plates. I ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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That Island Caretaker Job: Floating great ideas when the water's rough

Pictured: Why would anyone want to smurf it up on a tropical island when there's important brainstorming to do? ... you mean this is real pineapple in my pina colada?   The Galfromdownunder's Submission  or click ...READ»

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Half Price Food Before Close: Chasing the Charitable Choux

GOODONYA!That's Aussie for "good for you" to Joe and Chris Miller of Platteville, CO, for letting people help themselves to the leftovers on their harvested field.In a 'bring your doggy bag' of epic proportions, the invitation ...READ»

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