A productive staff is the most important asset an organization can possess, notes one of the best business schools in the world. A happy staff is more productive, according to a recent study conducted by the Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. “We find that human happiness has large and positive causal effects on [...]
Latina Food Network star, Daisy Martinez, comes to Park Slope’s premier Latino restaurant, Bogota Bistro & Mojito Bar this Saturday to sell and sign copies of her new book, Daisy: Morning, Noon, and Night. Martinez, host of the Food Network’s Viva Daisy!, is a native Brooklynite raised by island-born Puerto Ricans. Conveniently divided into appropriate [...]
A recent report by comScore, an internet marketing research company, found that mobile access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter saw a triple digit increase in utilization since January 2009. According to the new research, some 25.1 million people accessed Facebook via a mobile Web browser, a growth of 112 percent from January [...]
Earlier this month Google announced its entrance into the social media landscape: Google Buzz. Some social media pundits say the networking platform and messaging tool is Google’s attempt to compete with Facebook and Twitter. However, Google executives say otherwise. Bradley Horowitz, Google’s VP of product management, says Google Buzz is not just about status-updating or [...]
Looking back on my blog posts for 2009, two distinct topics highlight the year: Sotomayor and social media. The year began with great excitement for our new national leader and finally some serious hope for political change. Posts also concentrated on blog development and social media in general, with focus on the enormous increase and [...]
I was recently fortunate enough to be offered a Google Wave invite. As an avid Google product user, I had been patiently waiting for a direct invite from Google for a few months now. Finally, the wait is over. Google Wave has been called the next big thing in online revolutionary technologies. The Internet communications [...]
I have been spending more time on Twitter than any other social networking site. Twitter allows me to easily follow current news items and tweet stories I find interesting to others on Twitter. It is a micro-blogging service so I am still blogging, in a sense. If you like the overall content of this blog [...]
