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How to write a blog post people love | Penelope Trunk Careers

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How to write a blog post people love. Posted in: How to blog. May 13th, 2009. People always ask me why I have an editor for my blog posts. The big reason is that I don’t want my posts to suck. But what he does more than anything else, is make sure that my posts adhere to a set of five rules. And if the post does not adhere, he makes sure I have a good reason for it. Do you know why people love Seth Godin’s blog. The hardest thing about being short is that it's scary. You have to risk that your o...As wel...

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Century of Books: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

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My project to read the top 100 English-language books of the twentieth century. San Francisco, United States. I am an Australian writer and blogger living in San Francisco. Visit my professional site at caitlinfitzsimmons.com. Or my travel and food blog at Roaming Tales. Or my personal blog at The Niltiac Files. I am also on Twitter as @niltiac. See the full list of books. Or visit me on BookCrossing. View my complete profile. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

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How to make business travel manageable | Penelope Trunk Careers

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How to make business travel manageable. Posted in: No image. November 11th, 2009. Last year I traveled. Some weeks I traveled to three. If you are excited about business travel, thinking it's a free ticket to see the world, you should stop reading now. But if you are having trouble maintaining your personal life in the face of tons of travel, these tips from a cynical traveler will make life easier for you. 1 Stick with your priorities. 2 Eat really well. 3 Think of balance in terms of weeks, not days.

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Do you think you’re a strategist? You’re probably wrong. | Penelope Trunk Careers

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Do you think you’re a strategist? You’re probably wrong. Posted in: Knowing yourself. January 10th, 2008. It is a cliche that everyone thinks they’re a strategist. The reason everyone thinks they’re a strategist is because they don’t know what a strategist does. Get a reality check. Odds are you are not a strategist. Strategists usually favor thinking about the future instead of the present; strategists I admire are bored by what is and focus on what could be. It is a misconception that the strategists d...

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Three ways to give a good interview, and one way to shake things up | Penelope Trunk Careers

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Three ways to give a good interview, and one way to shake things up. February 27th, 2009. I do a lot of interviews. At least two or three a week — ranging from CNN to local newspapers. And no matter where the interview is running, there are some things you need to know about doing a good one:. Also, if you are short then you are more likely to be interesting the whole time. The longer you talk about a given topic the harder it is to keep someone's interest. You can't be chatty in a written interview...

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Century of Books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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My project to read the top 100 English-language books of the twentieth century. San Francisco, United States. I am an Australian writer and blogger living in San Francisco. Visit my professional site at caitlinfitzsimmons.com. Or my travel and food blog at Roaming Tales. Or my personal blog at The Niltiac Files. I am also on Twitter as @niltiac. See the full list of books. Or visit me on BookCrossing. View my complete profile. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

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Cisco expands its innovation centre network to Australia | Networked Globe

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The whole world is connected. Cisco expands its innovation centre network to Australia. July 2, 2015. Today Cisco launched their latest Internet of Everything Innovation Centre in Perth, Western Australia. The facility joins the seven existing centres around the globe which includes Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Songdo, Berlin, Barcelona, Tokyo and London. Many of these technologies will be tested as part of Woodside’s Plant of the Future gas project with CEO Peter Coleman saying the scheme will link co...

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Automating the farm with drones | Networked Globe

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The whole world is connected. Automating the farm with drones. July 21, 2015. Can unmanned aircraft solve Australia’s feral animal problem? Startup Ninox Robotics believes sending military-grade unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the country’s outback can help farmers control pests such as wild dogs and pigs on their sprawling properties. Ninox’s drones, supplied and operated by Israeli UAV supplier Bluebird, are licensed to operate in the dark and up to 50km from their base. They also have a...Should ...

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Towards the zero defect economy with GE, Cisco & Salesforce | Networked Globe

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The whole world is connected. Towards the zero defect economy. July 3, 2015. At 203 in the morning of July 11, 2012, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company freight train just inside the city limits of Columbus, Ohio. The resulting crash and fire caused over a hundred people to be evacuated, resulted in over a million dollars in damages and created massive disruption throughout the US rail network. Could accidents like this be avoided by the Internet of Things? You can proactively reach out to a customer and ...

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Century of Books: November 2005

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My project to read the top 100 English-language books of the twentieth century. San Francisco, United States. I am an Australian writer and blogger living in San Francisco. Visit my professional site at caitlinfitzsimmons.com. Or my travel and food blog at Roaming Tales. Or my personal blog at The Niltiac Files. I am also on Twitter as @niltiac. See the full list of books. Or visit me on BookCrossing. View my complete profile. My Ántonia by Willa Cather. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. The Grape...