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A Company Divided: Bridging the Generation Gap at Work Through the Power of Communication

Jeannette Paladino was kind enough to ask me to write this blog post today for Write Speak Sell .
The excerpt is below, and you can read the full post here .
At the end of the day, your company will either sink or swim based on how well you communicate.
I am sure you have heard this

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Pew Resarch Report Reveals Gen Y Internet Users Don’t Dominate Online Life

Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the “Net Generation,” this Pew Research report from earlier in 2009 reveals that internet users in their 20s do not dominate every aspect of online life.

Great Twitter Cartoons by the Cagle Post

For all you Twitter fans out there:
If you have not checked out the Twitter Cartoons by Cagle Post, I highly recommend you kick back and have a few laughs:
Get the cartoons here. Really funny one on this link by John Darkow.
You can follow Cagle’s Tweets here.

How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign

I highly recommend this article from the April issue of Fast Company on how Chris Hughes used his genius in building online communities to help President Obama win his campaign.
Never understimate the power of community and building a grassroots network…both online and offline…AND the intellectual horsepower and creativity our Millennial generation is bringing to our

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Interesting Website to Check Out: The Foggy Monnocle

The Foggy Monnocle blog is getting a great deal of attention. The satirical blog builds its content around stories, conversations and anecdotes submitted by readers. Quite interesting indeed from the perspective of how to market to young adults. I have to say that their approach is quite clever indeed.

Podcast: Y Talk Interview With Terry Osborn and Ben Aronson of TAO Experience

During this episode I had the pleasure of interviewing Terry Osborn and Ben Aronson, the founding partners of the TAO Experience , a Marketing, Branding and Talent Management firm based out of Hoboken, NJ. Listen in as we talk a bit about marketing to the Gen Y and Gen X demographics and their highly successful

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Podcast: Y Talk Interview with Terry Osborn and Ben Aronson of TAO Experience

During this episode I had the pleasure of interviewing Terry Osborn and Ben Aronson, the founding partners of the TAO Experience, a Marketing, Branding and Talent Management firm based out of Hoboken, NJ. Listen in as we talk a bit about marketing to the Gen Y and Gen X demographics and their highly successful Break’n

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Is Celebrity Narcissism Affecting Our Kids and Young Adults?

“The USA’s celebrity-obsessed culture is causing us to become more narcissistic, says behavior expert and physician Drew Pinsky, co-author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America. It may be especially dangerous for young people, who view celebrities as role models, say co-authors Pinsky (an internist better known on TV and radio as

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Y Talk Interview Tonight With Terry Osborn and Ben Aronson of the TAO Experience

During this episode tonight, March 18 at 7:30 Eastern, I will be interviewing the founding partners of the TAO Experience, a Marketing, Branding and Talent Management firm based out of Hoboken, NJ. We will be discussing their new and unique Break’n Through event, which showcases the talent of their firm to the Gen Y demographic.
To

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Jamie Varon on Does Generation Y Need to Grow Up?

I’m just now getting caught up on my reading on Brazen Careerist. (Great site and blogs…you need to check it out…all Gen Ys blogging on great topics we all need to know about.)
Jamie Varon has a great post from last month: Does Generation Y Need to Grow Up?
She makes a few great points. We need

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