If you’re blowing off meetings and turning in projects late, blame Facebook. A new survey pegs the social networking giant as the top reason so many of us are mentally checked out during the workday.
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman: How to Build Your Career in the Networked Economy
Reid Hoffman knows a thing or two about networking. Not only did he launch one of the most successful Internet companies of the past decade, LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, but he’s developed a formidable network of his own, one that’s given him the opportunity to invest such high-flying Internet start-ups as Facebook and …
Real Estate’s in the Tank? Not in the Land of IPOs
It’s been what my grandmother would call “a month of Sundays” (i.e., a long, long time) since we’ve heard of a local housing market that wasn’t in the doldrums. In fact, much of the country is now officially in the …
Tech Stocks: Should You Buy the Bubble?
How to find under-appreciated bargains in the midst of the latest hype over high-tech companies.
New Tech Bubble? More Like Tech Nation
The eye-popping IPO for Yandex, a Russian search engine few Americans have ever heard of, which managed to raise $1.3 billion on the NASDAQ, is raising more questions about whether we’re in a new tech bubble. So are we? Probably, …
Was LinkedIn’s IPO Bad for America?
LinkedIn’s public offering yesterday got a lot of buzz. Its shares surged over 90 percent on their first morning of trading and hit nearly $87 apiece after opening at $45. Today the shares are trading around $100. That’s good …
How Crazy is LinkedIn’s IPO?
It is Wall Street’s job to throw money at new companies, a Wall Street economist explained to me during the dotcom boom of a decade ago, when the valuations of IPOs were being questioned. We can report today that the Street, despite the dotcom bust and the real estate bust and the financial meltdown, has not only retained its
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Stop friending me on Facebook
I’m not on Facebook. I may or may not have once started an account with the intention of putting up a page someday as research for this column. But I haven’t visited since, seeing as I don’t need to hear one more giant sucking noise in the soundtrack of my already jammed life.
Yet I keep getting friended. I keep getting messages in my …
I just got recruited through LinkedIn
I very rarely get recruited. So rarely that sometimes I wonder what I’m doing wrong. When my colleagues were getting picked off by that new Condé Nast magazine Portfolio–all right, all of two TIME writers defected–I got nary a phone call. Not that I would have gone. If I had, I probably would have regretted it, considering all the …
MySpace Is Not for Professionals
So this was my day so far today:
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Beauty swag haul in Rockefeller Center. I don’t write about beauty, or beauty products, nor would anyone besides my indiscriminately complimentary nephew Jack call me a beauty. And yet I was invited–as a workplace writer, somehow–to an event held in a swanky restaurant beside the …
“MySpace for Professionals”: A Social Networking Site Geared for Careerists
I’m kind of dense. Despite my 15 years in the journalism biz, I sometimes don’t recognize a news story until it hits me over the head–a few times. Typically, the magic number is three. So when I realized today that I had heard about this new workplace tool three times in as many days, I thought I should check it out.
The tool is called …
This Year, I Resolve to Hide and/or Remove My Tattoo
Career advisers love to prognosticate about the coming year: the number of layoffs, the size of your bonus, what kind of shrimp they’ll serve at the holiday party. Equally popular among HR professionals are career-related New Year’s resolutions. Along with turning flab to fab and memorizing your kids’ teachers’ names, it seems office …