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How to keep your remote employees accountable without playing Big Brother

Nov07
by on November 7, 2014 at 8:35 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, Insider

Recent College Graduate Struggles To Find Full Time Employment In Tough Economy
Michael DeFranco is the CEO and Founder of Lua. Often times, budding entrepreneurs think the hardest part of starting a business is just that: Starting it. The simple act of biting the bullet and going it alone. Yet with most good businesses come future employees; and with every employee comes management and mentorship challenges and opportunities. Today, the challenges of simply managing employees are compounded by the ubiquity of working remote. How many entrepreneurs wake up to notices of employees deciding to work from home or letting you know that they’re “online… but sitting in traffic”? Most employees don’t abuse the privileges…

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SoundCloud’s ‘Wall of Sound’ commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago

Nov07
by on November 7, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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On Sunday, it will have been 25 years since the Berlin Wall dividing East and West Germany was torn down. To commemorate the fall, SoundCloud is partnering with Grey Advertising to launch The Berlin Wall of Sound, an acoustic art project meant to give you a soundscape representing life around the wall. It’s a rather intense and grueling listen, if a bit abstract., but there are are a number of thoughtful design points to make it more than just a tense sound clip. The piece is 7 minutes and 32 seconds long, which is equal to the time it would have…

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SoundCloud’s ‘Wall of Sound’ commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago

Nov07
by on November 7, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Berlin SoundCloud 2

On Sunday, it will have been 25 years since the Berlin Wall dividing East and West Germany was torn down. To commemorate the fall, SoundCloud is partnering with Grey Advertising to launch The Berlin Wall of Sound, an acoustic art project meant to give you a soundscape representing life around the wall. It’s a rather intense and grueling listen, if a bit abstract., but there are are a number of thoughtful design points to make it more than just a tense sound clip. The piece is 7 minutes and 32 seconds long, which is equal to the time it would have…

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Reuters moves conversation to social media as it kills comments on its news stories

Nov07
by on November 7, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Reuters is dropping comments from its news stories, the publication announced today. Explaining its reasoning, the company says: Much of the well-informed and articulate discussion around news, as well as criticism or praise for stories, has moved to social media and online forums. Those communities offer vibrant conversation and, importantly, are self-policed by participants to keep on the fringes those who would abuse the privilege of commenting. In simpler words, news stories are playgrounds for comment trolls and keyboard warriors. Whether Reuters no longer wants to make that sort of  vitriol so readily visible on its pages, or it simply doesn’t want to…

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Reuters moves conversation to social media as it kills comments on its news stories

Nov07
by on November 7, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Reuters is dropping comments from its news stories, the publication announced today. Explaining its reasoning, the company says: Much of the well-informed and articulate discussion around news, as well as criticism or praise for stories, has moved to social media and online forums. Those communities offer vibrant conversation and, importantly, are self-policed by participants to keep on the fringes those who would abuse the privilege of commenting. In simpler words, news stories are playgrounds for comment trolls and keyboard warriors. Whether Reuters no longer wants to make that sort of  vitriol so readily visible on its pages, or it simply doesn’t want to…

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