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Skill cloud: Why companies should kill the job title

May23
by on May 23, 2014 at 7:17 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Leif Abraham is a Partner at Prehype, a venture development firm in New York City. His latest e-book “Madison Valley” focuses on building digital products and how Madison Avenue can be more like Silicon Valley. For the first several years of my career I never had a job title. And even today it always feels kind of wrong to put myself into a box. My skills are relatively broad and I think I could adapt to any task (if I want to). I wouldn’t be the expert in the field – you probably shouldn’t ask me to operate on someone – but what I can…

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FreedomPop approaches 250,000 subscribers for its free mobile service

May23
by on May 23, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Budget carrier FreedomPop is on track to hit 250,000 total subscribers later this month after adding 100,000 customers this year alone. After testing the waters with WiFi hotspots, FreedomPop launched a phone service last October. The company’s plans offer a basic amount of data, text messages and voice for free, and customers can, of course, pay extra for more. According to FreedomPop, over 60 percent of its phone customers stick to the free plan and don’t spend anything for service. Earlier this week, FreedomPop announced a $20 unlimited everything plan lets FreedomPop customers get unlimited text messages, voice minutes and data. However,…

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How to tell if you’ve been blindsided by data

May23
by on May 23, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15five blog. We work in an age where detailed information and data are available across so many areas of our businesses, driving our decisions because the numbers don’t lie. But when it comes to assessing our people, quantitative analysis is only half the story. The other half of analyzing employee performance and team dynamics involves listening to your employees to hear a story more subtle and complex than the numbers alone can convey. This qualitative analysis provides a complete picture of the health of your people-centered organization. So how…

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YouTube is building a mobile app for creators, a feature to let fans donate funds, and crowdsourced subtitles

May23
by on May 23, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Mobile

YouTube today announced a new initiative called Creator Preview, a video series in which the Google-owned company shares what features it is working on for creators. In the first video, YouTube reveals it is building a mobile app just for creators, a feature that lets fans directly contribute funds to creators, and a “way to harness the power of the crowd to create captions and subtitles for your videos in 60+ languages.” As you can see above, YouTube doesn’t actually show off any of the features in the video: it merely interviews a few engineers about why they think these…

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YouTube is building a mobile app for creators, a feature to let fans donate funds, and crowdsourced subtitles

May23
by on May 23, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Mobile

YouTube today announced a new initiative called Creator Preview, a video series in which the Google-owned company shares what features it is working on for creators. In the first video, YouTube reveals it is building a mobile app just for creators, a feature that lets fans directly contribute funds to creators, and a “way to harness the power of the crowd to create captions and subtitles for your videos in 60+ languages.” As you can see above, YouTube doesn’t actually show off any of the features in the video: it merely interviews a few engineers about why they think these…

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