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Best Digital Practices in the Health Industry

BY David Capece
Relevancy Score: 100

Healthcare insurance, reform, H1N1, food contamination and countless stories that pull on our heartstrings are daily discussion topics in newsrooms, blogs and dining room tables across the nation. It should come as no surprise that many of the top 50 digital social-cause influencers are related to health. Health is clearly on the American mind. Now the question is why have...READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform : EasyToInsureME : 7/21/09

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 98

EasyToInsureME offers clients the easiest way to buy individual health insurance. Free services include instant online health insurance quotes, custom proposals for each client, free phone consultations, and 10-minute application by phone. Nobody does what we do for our clients!READ»

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Norton Law Group

BY Norton Law Group
Relevancy Score: 96

Norton Law GroupREAD»

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Not ready for the AARP, 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' panel at South by Southwest Interactive

BY Serge Lescouarnec
Relevancy Score: 79

Want to know what's out there on the web for those of us who are Just Over 50 and Not Ready for the AARP, join the conversation online or in person at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin on March 8. Check the Just Over 50 ...READ»

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Service Nation

BY Brian Reich
Relevancy Score: 73

Richard Stengel, the Managing Editor of Time Magazine, opened this week's issue with a very exciting announcement. See below: To Our Readers The Service Agenda. Time is helping to lead a major push to make national ...READ»

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Boomer Bailout

BY Beverly Kaye
Relevancy Score: 67

This topic is a hot one. Why? Look at the facts. Run the numbers. You'll see you might, indeed, have a problem. Every 40 seconds a Baby Boomer turns 50. (Good excuse for more office parties.) They represent 60% of the workforce aged ...READ»

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The Net/Net

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 64

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issueREAD»

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EasyToInsureME Health Insurance Quotes Reform Weekly

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 58

This week's debate focused on last Saturday's approval of health care reform legislation by the House of Representatives.READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 55

This Week in Health Care ReformREAD»

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Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 53

On November 21st Senate lawmakers voted along party lines to move ahead with a floor debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's READ»

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Want To Stay Healthy After Retirement? Keep Working

BY Ray Williams
Relevancy Score: 50

Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions, was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression the concept of retirement didn't exist. And for the most part, people are viewing retirement in a very different way today. AARP in the U.S., report from a survey done in 2008 that 70% of workers plan to continue working past their retirement age.Now recent research questions the assumption that not working anymore will improve your health. READ»

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Work/Life: Fortune Favors the B(old)

BY Lynette Chiang
Relevancy Score: 46

Wow, that last post was quite a rant on my part about Sydney. It sounded like I was down on it, big time. Actually, I think it was the opening of the /cities article that set me off: You're smart, young, newly graduated from a ...READ»

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Oh Captain, My Captain

BY Paul Bugala
Relevancy Score: 42

More and more, captains of industry are looking to postpone or interrupt retirement by contributing their insight and experience to budding companies. So why aren't more startups clamoring to recruit seasoned veterans?READ»

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Peripheral Personality

BY Vickie Abrahamson
Relevancy Score: 41

Report from the FuturistREAD»

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IBM's Hottest New Cell Phone Market: Senior Citizens (and the Illiterate)

BY Dan Macsai
Relevancy Score: 41

Among cell-phone users in developed countries, IBM is betting the market with the biggest growth potential is...people over the age of 65?READ»

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Health Insurance Exchange Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 39

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), may just reach his goal of getting a health care reform package approved by the Senate by ChristmasREAD»

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The Labor-Shortage Myth

BY Alison Overholt
Relevancy Score: 38

When boomers start to retire, the theory goes, we'll see a job boom. Too bad it won't happen.READ»

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Living for Social Networks, Literally

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 35

More and more elderly people are joining social networks, according to The New York Times, and it may be saving them from death by boredom. Among senior citizens who ventured online in 2008, the number that visited social ...READ»

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The Coming Age Wave

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 31

Are marketers finally getting wise to the purchasing power of the over-40 consumer? If the crowd gathered for the "Mature Market Summit" at the Roosevelt Hotel this week was any indication, it seems something has subtly shifted in ...READ»

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Baby Boomers A Key To Economic Recovery

BY Ray Williams
Relevancy Score: 30

Much has been written and discussed about the massive number of Baby Boomers who are retiring or about to retire, and the impact on the workplace. What are Boomers going to do with their lives? Here's two developing trends that may have a significant impact on the workplace and our economy: Temp workers and entrepreneurial start ups.READ»

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Gap's "Forth and Towne" Debacle Being Misinterpreted; Blame AARP

BY Adam Hanft
Relevancy Score: 30

The business press has been all over the Gap's decision to close their "Forth and Towne" division after having sunk $40 million into this ill-fated attempt to win over women 35+ who were -- or so the argument went -- disenfranchised ...READ»

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Why Online Branded Entertainment Should Study Soap Operas

BY Sam Ford
Relevancy Score: 28

With so many companies in the past few years talking about producing online video and other forms of "branded entertainment," I'm amazed by how people often talk about these trends as if they are new. Radio and early television was ...READ»

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A 12-Step Program for Job-Seekers

BY Jay Tatum
Relevancy Score: 28

I joined the ranks of the so many people this past year when I gave up a very good position in a small health system in Ohio to pursue some new career interests.  My wife graduated with her second master's degree and was pursuing ...READ»

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Project Parse It Up: Bravo vs. Lifetime

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 27

Tim Gunn, our favorite sartorial critic, is in the eye of the storm--again. As I chronicled in Fast Company's April issue profile "Project Rehab," the former head of Parsons' Fashion program has had a dizzying career ...READ»

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How Do You Serve?

BY Chris Jarvis
Relevancy Score: 26



Michelle Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington, and Bon Jovi all told us how they serve yesterday at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, the world's largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the government, non-profits, entertainment, academia, business and the media. 
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