Since I have loaded my Outlook address book into LinkedIn, I have turned to being more selective of the invitations I will consider. It might be that LinkedIn isn’t “valuable”. Any way, if you want to send me an invite, then you have to let me know you’re doing it. I’ll put you in my LinkedIn Other folder and it will allow you to send an invite. I’m down to my last 500 invites so I’m saving them. :-)
JOBSEARCH: LinkedIn’s invitation options
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TECH: Don’t deal with Lycos
Wednesday, October 4, 2006… they are as hard to cancel as AOL!!
Please once they start billing your credit card you can’t get rid of them.
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JOBSEARCH: A good read and chock full of nuggets
Wednesday, October 4, 2006http://careerandleadership.com/
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In this issues, we are very pleased to include an article submitted by Dr. David Salter who brings a thoughtful and new perspective about information technology and education. Networking expert Russ Kovar writes about the importance of networking in his article “People Know People”. Vikram Rajan makes another appearance with his article about press releases in our Leadership section. Robin Cook’s piece explains the nine shared characteristics of innovative organizations in the Work Life section. Also in the Work Life section is a compelling article about getting organized by Carla Thorpe. Writer Megan Byrd has contributed another insightful Book Review.
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Re: getting organized
My Mom used to say ” A place for everything; everything in its place”. That’s why I plog. Get all my thoughts in one place. ;-)
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JOBSEARCH: You’re only as good as your last paycheck you cashed.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006An employed-eee is merely a consultant with restricted choice of where and on what they will work on tomorrow.
TECH: EVERNOTE a free tool to capture “stuff” … free!
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easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!
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Can’t beat the price and works neatly.
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LIBERTY: Habeas corpus well deserves its other traditional name: the Great Writ.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/liberty-and-habeas-corpus-i.html
A GREAT post on Habeas Corpus. A must read for every liberty lover!
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GUNS: The “liberals” are whining for more restrictions
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/shot-through-heart_02.html#comments
Sorry, but the answer is not to create more potential victims.
The world’s, by its very nature, is a dangerous place. Two-legged and four-legged varmints abound. Maybe if schools were NOT a “gun free zone”, then the staff would have a fighting chance to keep their charges safe.
Everyone predicted that Florida would become the OK corral at every traffic accident. It didn’t BECAUSE those that are armed are law abiding.
I know I can’t convince you, and other nice people, that you are living in Fantasy Land if you think that by passing more laws and regulations and rules you can keep these things from happening.
Maybe I CAN convince you that what you are doing is depriving yourself of the protection of your fellow law abiding citizens and residents, who would choose to arm themselves for their protection, and that of society. See part of the benefit of unrestricted concealed carry is that the bad guys don’t know which of the good guys are sheep and which are the sheepdogs. Fatal to the bad guy if he guesses wrong!
Envision if that teacher, who had to run to call police, was “packing heat”. I don’t fault her at all. Only an idiot would try to take on an armed madman with her bare hands. Like the hijacked airline passengers. But if armed, look how the situation would have changed. While the varmint was busy boarding up the doors, would anyone have minded if she had put five in his back? If she was even charged, then I’d like to be on that jury. I’d convict the prosecutor who charged her. Five little girls would be alive and one madman dead. Hard to envision a worse outcome than the one we have now.
The “gun free schools zone” merely ensures that the madman will have no armed opposition to worry about until the police get there.
Why make it easy for them?
After all who are the police anyway? They are nothing more than the agents of the citizens. If we can empower the police to defend us, why should we defend ourselves?
Do you think that teachers, principle, and school custodians can’t tell the difference between bad guys and their students?
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JOBSEARCH: LINKEDIN’s value
Tuesday, October 3, 2006Posted by: “George”
Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:34 am (PST)
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I don’t know about other users, but I am finding diminishing returns
on LinkedIn.
I have used it for over a year for networking and business development
as a consultant and executive coach. But more and more I am getting
stuff from recruiters looking for me to do their job for them.
Whats the next big thing?
Has LinkedIn outlived its usefulness?
What other networking and business development tools are people using now?
There also seem to be more executives who – it appears – have someone
put their profile in LinkedIn – but never use the tool or respond to
invitations. Whats the point of that? Another sign of its diminishing
value.
George F Franks III
Franks Consulting Group
Web site: http://franksconsultinggroup.com
E-zine: http://careerandleadership.com
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This is an interesting observation.
For each person that I link to, after two weeks, I send them a chatty little email. So far I have ZERO responses.
So LinkedIn isn’t networking. And, it may be of ZERO use other than a glorified yellow pages of people.
Hmmm!?!
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LIBERTY: Strategy For Smaller Government
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://freetalklive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Strategy_For_Smaller_Government
Strategy For Smaller Government
1. Political Party
Join the big L Libertarian party and work to get enough people elected. (Seen how well that has worked over the last 30 years!)
2. Issue Oriented Group
Join Advocates for Smaller Government and push an agenda. (Carla has had some modest success in MA.)
3. Free State Project
Move to NH and revolt. (Seems to be working. But, it’s definitely not easy. For me, probably won’t happen.)
4. Lauren C’s in their face activism
Just refuse to cooperate at all. Worked for Gandhi and MLK. (I’m not so sure I’m brave enough to pull that off!)
5. Dave’s individual silent signs
Seems to annoy them. Probably will wind up in arrests.
6. Get people to laugh at Big Gubamint foolishness.
Try to make fun of big gubamint. See Penn & Teller on HBO. See how fast the Spanish American War Telephone tax was repealed. (Big Gubamint can stand being laughed at!)
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LIBERTY: Gubamint makes losers of us all
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_275204901.html
Published: October 02, 2006 08:49 pm
DAY 3: Stabilizing neighborhoods
Millions of public dollars will be spent in the next three years on Niagara Falls housing
By Denise Jewell
Niagara Gazette
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Public officials are also working on housing plans that would address the lack of private-sector investment into building new housing in Niagara Falls.
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While the HOPE VI project has been hailed by advocates as a key to revitalizing public housing, local landlords have expressed concerned that the proposal will negatively impact private rental units by pulling tenants into newer public housing.
“We’re putting up units at $200,000 for poor people and you wonder what’s wrong?” asked Ken Hamilton, a Niagara Falls citizen who has spoken out against the project. “If there’s a glut, why extend the glut?”
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Ahh, why isn’t there any private sector investment?
For the same reason that there aren’t any parochial schools being built, you can’t compete with he gubamint “giving away” free or below cost stuff!
There is a reason why the free market allocates resources so efficiently and that mechanism is prices. High prices signal entrepreneurs that there is a potential profit. That signal communicates that there is an unmet need that someone is willing to pay to have satisfied.
Milton Freedman did a great exposition on the pencil. No one had to be told to make it. The marketplace energized a whole bunch of greedy people to get together and work cooperatively to satisfy his basic human need for a pencil. It was not a committee. It was not the gubamint. And, it wasn’t funded using “public money”.
So here we have the gubamint manipulating its citizens.
When it puts its “proverbial thumb” on the marketplace scale, it makes everything worse. By depressing the value of a rental property, it signals the marketplace to produce less housing in that area. To invest less money. That there are fewer human needs in that area. Perversely, it makes the problem worse.
And, the media and the intellectuals just don’t get it.
In a marketplace, all needs are addressed. In a gubmint solution, only some needs are met and it’s at a fantastic cost. I bet if we had a forensic accountant look into it, we’d find that the ~200k per unit would translate into ~600k being stolen from taxpayers. And, what about the silent cost of this “housing project” to those silent victims of gubamint taxation? maybe they were ready to buy their first house, but the gubamint taxes took it away from them and gave it to those “poor people” over there.
See that’s what gubamint does, it makes losers of us all!
Note: It’s interesting that the news site bans certain ips from commenting. Oh well, not that they’d listen much.
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