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BusinessWeek Special Report: Best Places to Launch a Career

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Special Edition for Job Seekers

Know a college grad, a job seeker, just want to know what’s happening — it’s all here. This isn’t an article. It’s a whole magazine!

Great Find: BusinessWeek Special Report on Best Places to Launch a Career

Permalink: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/06_38/B40010638bplc.htm?campaign_id=nws_insdr_sep8&link_position=link1

Audience/Topic: Anyone who is or knows anyone interested in the world of work

Content: BusinessWeekonline has put together an amazing resource of 15 articles for job seekers. The topics are timely, relevant, and varied. The writing is crisp and compelling. I’ll save you a second or two by putting the entire link list here, rather than just the title.

BusinessWeek Special Report on Best Places to Launch a Career

Two slide shows are only available at the site:

  • Online Extra: Slide Show: Today’s CEOs: Then and Now
  • Online Extra: Slide Show: Launch Pads

Enjoy the resource and pass it on to all who need it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Top Ten Desktop Diversions of 2006

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What’s most interesting about this list is that sites once unknown outside of the blogosphere are included. Wouldn’t expect to find Technorati here. Would you?

Great Find: Top Ten Desktop Diversions by Liz Ryan of BusinessWeekonline
Type of Article: List of online sites, with commentary
Permalink: http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/mar2006/ca20060327_414798.htm?campaign_id=nws_insdr_mar31&link_position=link18
Target Audience: Anyone looking for an online diversion from work

Content: Liz Ryan writes this list as a follow up to a piece BW did last year called Top Ten Time Wasters. ( I searched but couldn’t find us a link.) The premise here is to offer informational and interactive sites that provide a break and diversion from work. Included in this list are links to sites where you can

  • estimate the value of your home
  • send an email to a monk
  • make a map of any number of things
  • publish your ideas
  • check your popularity on the Internet
  • catch a flick
  • make fun of pop culture
  • get groceries
  • get the 30,000 foot view

My guess is that you will know 3-5 sites on this list already. I’d be interested, if the answer for you is less or more than that many. Certainly bloggers are more Internet aware than the average magazine reader, but this is BusinessWeekonline after all. To read the article, click the screenshot.

Top Ten Desktop Diversions, 2006 Screenshot Link

A year ago, the information flow was one way only–bloggers getting ideas from the mainstream media. Have they started getting ideas from us? I think we’re seeing a trend that is growing.

Technorati? Interesting. Really.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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