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"Phew! Talk about pressure. Writing a blog post about how to write a perfect blog post is the most meta of burdens. It's a bit different than writing about perfect tweets or ideal Facebook posts. There's nowhere to hide when you're blogging about perfect blogging. So I hope you'll still trust the advice here even if you don't find this post itself to be flawless. I'm sure we'd all love for each of our blog posts to be absolute perfection-however it is that you measure perfection-so I researched all the necessary info to get us started on the path to perfection. I'll cover headlines and length and visuals and so much more below. How close are you to creating the perfect post already?"

blog post by Andrea Coombes, 3.14.13, published by WSJ on creating the perfect boomer resume. 1. Keep it timely 2. Keep it focused 3. Tell a story 4. Make sure contact info is up to date 5. Tailor the format to the situation 6. Stick to a simple format (font) 7. Adjust your attitude.

Resource from one of the Jane Hart participants about infographic profiles. Good resource, easy to follow, clear.

this is the one I sent via email. I think this is a better place for it. MindLeaders HR release new Functional Skills software. clients around the UK.

eportfolios vendor

website on using breathing to get healthier, smarter, more accomplished, etc. Has good links to other interesting and seemingly valid sources.

"In the real world, you don't have infinite resources; you don't have a perfect product; and you don't sell to a growing market without competition. You're also not omnipotent, so you cannot enforce what people think your brand represents. Under these assumptions, most companies need all the help they can get with branding. This is my advice to help you."

Like this article written by Susan Wojcicki in July 2011 on how to stay innovative. Found it today via my twitter feed. 1. Have a mission that maters 2. Think big but start small 3. Strive for continual innovation, not instant perfection 4. Look for ideas everywhere 5. Share everything 6. Spark with imagination, fuel with data 7. Be a platform 8. Never fail to fail

A great post on effective blogging by Lynn Serafinn that we are try to execute

perfect exploration by Felix Wu of how big data threats come down to three concerns: surveillance, disclosure, and discrimination.

Thanks to Kemetia Foley, we have this great article from Huff Post College that appeared today. It's written by Nathan Holic who teachers at UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric. It's pretty funny. "I'm 33, and feel like I'm living in a generational No Man's Land between digital dependency and digital illiteracy." Closing paragraph "Still, despite how amazing it sounds to live in the cloud, the digital uncluttering has become not liberating but exhausting. When the photos are scanned and the CDs are ripped, will I then spend full weekends "uncluttering my desktop," endlessly organizing folders on my devices, trying to make the digital information ever more accessible, editing "Easter '89" to perfection, searching for the most recent digital task-list that I commended myself for having typed on my phone...but which has long since disappeared into the haze of clutter obscuring the screens of my devices?

Maria Popova's blog, brainpickings, on Carol Dweck's work on mindset. Even in children, open or growth mindset is a key factor in learning, while fixed mindset is too focused on being perfect or the best or knowing all the answers. Growth mindset leads to curiosity, learning, exploration, and creativity. Fixed mindsets lead to the status quo and adhering to what exists. Growth mindset sees problems and challenges as growth and learning opportunities, fixed mindset views challenges as failure and underperforming. Great graphic of the 2 mindsets from Dweck's book.

Jane's advert for her next workshop where she explains what the course is and isn't.

article by Walter Chen, Inc. Excerpt: "The most important character trait of a leader isn't where she went to school or her IQ. It's one that you're more likely to associate with a boring person than a Silicon Valley star: predictability. The more predictable you are, day in and day out, the better." The article It isn't as much about predictability as it is leaders establishing clear direction and getting out of the way of employees to work autonomously in making the goals/vision come true. All backed up by big data that has changed Google's hiring practices.

post by Sascha Jones on Huffingtonpost.com, 9/28/2015.  good tips 

Interview with Angela Flournoy where she recommends three short stories as the best she has ever read by Junot Diaz (Drown), Edwidge Danticant (Krik? Krak!) and James Baldwin's (Sonny's Blues).