What It’s Like to Attend Mashable’s Online Career Fair

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Mashable has one of the most influential communities online. We recognize that our readers are more familiar with digital culture and technology than the average internet user. …

Hesperia Chamber‘s insight:

We just hosted a live job fair. Online Career Expo is a GREAT idea!

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The best Prezi presentation ever!

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When the CEO’s presentation is approaching or a company’s event is occurring, and if you think power point is boring… Take a look at our Prezi presentation…

Hesperia Chamber‘s insight:

I’ve seen a few Prezis, but they made me dizzy. This one is fun!

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7 Ways Cell Phones are Destroying Your Business Productivity

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The cell phone turns 40 years old this month. Are we less productive because of it?

Hesperia Chamber‘s insight:

I know cell phones have impacted some of your businesses because of employee distraction. Here are six more ways cell phones are a nuisance.

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SCORE.org Offers Webinars for Your Business.

 

SCORE LIVE Webinars May 2013 You are invited! Sign up now for FREE online business training from SCORE. This month you’ll learn ways to get your business ready for funding and how to grow your business with effective leadership strategies! Register Now

Getting Your Business Ready for Financing Thursday, Apr 25 at 1pm ET / 10am PT Hear from Ami Kassar, CEO of MultiFunding LLC, as he provides an explanation and description of the issues that small business owners have to think through and prepare for as your get your business ready for funding – at all stages. Register Now

Building a Team That Can Build a Successful Business Thursday, May 2 at 1pm ET / 10am PT Every new business should be concerned with leadership and management. Even if your startup doesn’t have employees, you likely have partners, advisors, contract workers, or even vendors who can make or break your business. How do you make sure that everyone you work with has your company’s best interests at heart? How do you assemble the team that can start – and grow – a successful business? Join this webinar by WickedStart to learn how to find the right members for your team, and then how to manage and lead the folks who play integral roles in your company. By the end of this webinar, you’ll have everything you need to determine who should be on your team, and how you can empower and inspire each and every team member to make the contributions that make your business a roaring success. Register Now

The Four Cornerstones to Becoming a Great Leader Thursday, May 9 at 1pm ET / 10am PT Great leadership is not a quality that springs up overnight. It takes time to lay the right foundation and solidify leadership qualities so that a person can make the correct decisions in tough situations without hesitation. Most people call these “gut decisions” as if someone flipped a coin before making a difficult choice. That would be incorrect. This webinar will teach you how to lay the proper foundation and solidify it with exceptional qualities so that you won’t waiver when faced with adversity. If being a great leader is important to you, then take one hour to make sure you are on the right path. Register Now

Grow Your Business with Email & Social Media Simple Marketing Strategy for Small Business & Nonprofits Tuesday, May 14 at 1pm ET / 10am PT Many small businesses and organizations find themselves seeking the right strategies, tools and tactics to make their marketing efforts as effective as possible. But between Facebook and Twitter, email and mobile, deals, and new social networks—there’s a lot to keep up with. And there are only so many hours in each day. This webinar will show you how to make the most of combining email and social media; get your messages opened, read, shared and socially visible; and use simple tools to engage with your existing customers, prospect, and supporters. Register Now

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Make Yourself an Expert – Harvard Business Review

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Business management magazine, blogs, case studies, articles, books, and webinars from Harvard Business Review, addressing today’s topics and challenges in business management.

Hesperia Chamber‘s insight:

Are you the go-to person in your workplace? This is a great article on getting ahead and taking advantage of being the go-to person.

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Seth’s Blog: A field guide to the Meeting Troll

A field guide to the Meeting Troll

The meeting troll is a common creature, one that morphs over time and is good at hiding (snaring you when it’s too late to avoid him.)

1. The meeting troll has a neverending list of reasonable objections. It’s the length of the list that makes the objections unreasonable.
2. The meeting troll never says ‘we’. It’s all about ‘you.’
3. The meeting troll doesn’t actually want you to fail, but is establishing a trail so that if you do, he’s off the hook.
4. Despite his protestations about how much he hates meetings, the meeting troll actually thrives on them, because, after all, this is the only place he gets to do his best work. The very best way to extinguish the meeting troll is to extinguish meetings. The second best way is to not invite him.
5. A key giveway: The meeting troll will use the phrase, “devil’s advocate.” More than once.
6. Growth hackers look for a yes at every turn. The meeting troll thinks his job is to find the no.
7. The meeting troll never eagerly calls a project meeting, nor does he bring refreshments, volunteer to organize follow up or encourage others to push their ideas even further. He’s eager, though, to host the post mortem.
8. One particularly noxious type of meeting troll says not a thing at the meeting. He uses body language and eye rolling to great advantage, though, and you can be sure that there will be quiet one-on-one undermining going on as soon as the meeting is over. The modern evolution of this is the instant messaging of snide remarks during the meeting.
9. The meeting troll has a perfect memory for previous failures and complete amnesia when it comes to things that have worked.
10. Analogies, particularly to vivid flameouts (regardless of how rare or irrelevant) is the easy tool for the amateur troll. He’s also good at equating your desire to deal with negative change with the assertion that you somehow caused or were in favor of that negative change.
11. Open-ended questions that merely hint at failure are sufficient for the experienced troll. He knows that he doesn’t have to kill the new project for it to die. He just has to stir up sufficient unease.
12. The meeting troll is afraid, not merely evil. Change is a threat, and trolling is his well-intentioned but erroneous response to the threat of change.

via Seth’s Blog: A field guide to the Meeting Troll.

10 Questions to Ask Before Making Your First Hire | Entrepreneur.com

You’ve launched your business, and it’s beginning to expand. Now, you’re ready to make your first hire–but don’t be too hasty.

“It is easy to just want to fill that first slot and get things rolling,” says Barbara Tallent, a serial entrepreneur and an advisor to Astia, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that runs programs for female entrepreneurs. “The wrong employee can become a huge burden for you and drag subsequent employees down as well.”

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http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226141#ixzz2PLX4vbfN