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Canadian Press article points to Social Signal for social media tips and open-source resources

October 15, 2009

Today’s Canadian Press article by Tamsyn Burgmann, Companies seek social media experts to keep online conversation rolling, shared our tips on starting a career in social media.

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12 things you don’t know about Rob Cottingham

October 12, 2009

In a few hours I’ll be thankful for a plate of turkey, stuffing and gravy. Meanwhile, there’s nothing like jamming chunks of bread into the cavity of a formerly living creature to make you appreciate what really matters in life. As I stood elbow-deep in turkey, I found myself reflecting on the person who is at the heart of most of what I have to be thankful for this year

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A beacon to find your life path

August 7, 2007

OK, I'm cheating a little here — I already love my work a lot of the time. But recently I connected with someone who is helping our company bring its work into even closer alignment with our values and our goals.

Alanna Fero is a career consultant and personal coach who helps people figure out how they can bring their work into alignment with their values. She knows how to bring a values-aligned career or business to life — to get from aspiration to vision to the nuts-and-bolts of how to get yourself from here to there.

And now she's launching a book that will make her approach accessible to a wider audience. Love Made Visible will be released on August 15. Launch details below:

LOVE MADE VISIBLE RELEASE PARTY

5:30 – 7:30pm August 15th
The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club
3811 Point Grey Road Vancouver BC (at Highbury, just west of Alma)
Book Signing, Light Refreshments & Great Networking
Please RSVP by August 12 to launch@alannafero.com


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Acing the application: some advice

July 2, 2005

Start your application process 12-16 months before you hope to begin graduate school. If that sounds like a really long lead time, consider that most applications for programs that begin in September are due in January of the same year. So most of your work on the admissions process has to take place before December [...]

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Questions to ask yourself

July 2, 2005

How does the value of a graduate degree compare to its opportunity costs? If you’re applying to graduate school because you think a degree will advance your professional prospects, compare the value of a degree to the value of the professional experience you would accumulate in the same period of time. I feel well-served by [...]

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Who am I to give grad school advice?

July 2, 2005

In 2004, I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the Department of Government at Harvard. That’s part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which is an academically-oriented graduate school that aims to produce PhDs.(As opposed to the Kennedy School of Government, which produces mostly MPPs — Masters in Public Policy – and [...]

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From diatribe to dialogue

January 14, 2005

It’s been an exciting 48 hours here on alexandrasamuel.com. It’s been swell hearing from all the folks who were shocked, outraged or otherwise engaged by my digressions (in November, and this week) on the subject of Condoleezza Rice’s political science career, but I think it’s time I got back to to the business at hand: [...]

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