When I first discovered there were APIs that would allow me to schedule tweets, I thought I was in Twitter Heaven. I could schedule a time to tweet everything I wanted ahead time, and I’d never have to worry about missing an opportunity to promote my site. (Yeah, I was still residing in Spamville back [...]

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To Schedule Tweets or No? Two Reasons You Should.

Passage of the Ledbetter Act — making it easier for employees to sue over claims of wage discrimination — has sent HR offices scurrying around to make sure they’ve retained every piece of paper associated with pay and promotions. That’s probably the wrong approach when building a defense against such claims.
The fact that the [...]

The Department of Labor’s released new proposed regs on providing advice to participants in individual retirement plans.
The proposed investment advice rules are intended to make sure that workers receive unbiased advice about how to invest in 401(k)-type plans.
The DOL will be accepting comments on the regs until May 5, and the regs are expected [...]

One research group has told the feds it believes their E-Verify program is failing to catch more than half of unauthorized hires.
Westat recently performed an evaluation of E-Verify for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and estimated that the program’s “inaccuracy rate for unauthorized workers” is about 54%.
That means one out of every two [...]

Psychology Today did an interview with me. It was about my most triumphant moments in my life, and how I overcame obstacles to get there. I knew immediately that the interview was going to be a disaster, so I told them I wanted to do the interview written, rather than on the phone.
Then I didn’t [...]

Comment on: The biggest triumph is getting out of bed

Apparently, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States said that. I like that quote because, while so much writing, research, and advice focuses on what leaders say and do (which is right), sometimes people forget that the…

Apparently, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States said that. I like that quote because, while so much writing, research, and advice focuses on what leaders say and do (which is right), sometimes people forget that the…

A major department store chain recently paid through the nose for failing to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What happened
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) went after Sears, Roebuck & Co., when the company terminated 235 former workers immediately following their return to work after being out on workers’ compensation leave.
Sears violated the [...]

Every new car has a manual in its glove compartment. Software applications have a help link when you get stuck or want to learn more about a feature. User assistance is part of our web and so is Twitter. How can Twitter can be useful for technical writers, trainers, or web publishers who provide customer [...]

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Focus on Twitter for Technical Documentation

Believe it or not, summer will arrive. And so will interns if your organization decides to use them. Just make sure your intern program doesn’t violate Department of Labor regulations.
In opinion letters and other rulings, the DOL has set out six ironclad rules for taking on interns. A violation of any of those rules [...]

I opened that The New York Times Books section yesterday, and there it was: Chip and Dan Heath’s new book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard was Number 1 on the “Advice” list (a list that is…

What do your company’s talent conversations sound like? If you’ve spent more than a few minutes managing, succession planning, or doing a performance review, you know that total talent conversations can morph into a bias founded upon a single experience….

New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar TOMORROW, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here)
LinkedIn for Job Seekers DVD for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Sorry about last week’s Giveaway (I skipped it!). Here’s the question for this week:
WHY do we (in general) HATE networking?
Leave your answer [...]

Something peculiar happened yesterday.
I was sitting in a coffee shop near work as I often do between sessions when one of the baristas sheepishly approached me. I go in there all the time, so most of them know me by face, if not by name. She said, “Are you Jeff?” I answered in the affirmative [...]

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Private Eyes Are Watching You: Twitter Oversharing and Its Bizarre Real-World Consequences

The House just passed the Senate’s $15 billion jobs bill meant to encourage you to seek out the unemployed.
Because the House added “pay as you go” budgetary provisions, it now goes back to the Senate for approval. But one of the main provisions made it through the House unscathed.
A payroll tax holiday
The bill would [...]

The slow economy has already led a bunch of states to look at banning employers from using credit checks to screen applicants. Now, the federal government is considering a ban, too.
Legislators’ reasoning goes like this: If someone’s out of work and consequently piling up debts, how is that person supposed to climb out of [...]

I was rather shocked, and quite delighted, to get an email from Katie Clark at IDEO yesterday with several different new graphics for the top of my blog. I didn’t ask her or talk to her about, she just decided…

The Internet can be a very useful tool when it comes to finding work. However, you may have to search hard and long for quality websites, since, as with most things online, there’s a lot of junk. The following are…

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I have written here fairly often about research by Harvard Business School’s Boris Groysberg on the virtues and limits of star employees. One of my posts described has delightful research that shows firms should steal superstar women, not men. It…