Link Post: Getting Ahead Edition
Mar.02, 2008 in
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Megan and I are getting ready to go travel out to Big Bend week after next, so I am going to try to spend some time today building a lead into my posting for the blog. Of course, with this being the week before Spring Break, my professors (three out of five) decided to give us tests and have big assignments due. C’est la vie… On to the links!
- Communications Etiquette (AgentGenius)
What is the right way to communicate with Generation Y? Phone or email isn’t always the best way; different people communicate in different ways through different mediums and the best way to make a connection is to meet someone halfway. - Nachos 101 (Homesick Texan)
What is the right way to make nachos? I’m with her on this one - no soggy piles of chips, cheese, and other assorted toppings. - Is DreamSpark Somebody’s Nightmare? (Microsoft Watch)
Bill Gates came to UT to speak a few weeks ago and suffice it to say, I was disappointed. It was an hour and a half of stuff that we already knew and nothing substantive, just Microsoft/Gates kool-aid, followed by punk students asking him for jobs. That aside, he mentioned a program that MS is doing, called DreamSpark, in which they are giving away tons of Microsoft developer tools like Visual Studio for students. Joe Wilcox puts it best:DreamSpark isn’t charity. It’s business–protecting Microsoft’s entrenched desktop-and-server software business model from competing products, and, most importantly, from the Web 2.0 platform.
- Lessons from Tower Defense on How to Reinvent Your Blog (Problogger)
Darren talks about Desktop Tower Defense strategy and offers tips for dealing with bloggers-block.I?m not arguing that bloggers need to make every post that they write completely random or out of the box - but if your blog is stuck in a rut perhaps it?s time to do something unexpected or different.
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