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Zappos Will Pay You To Quit

As this past year at Yahoo! has been my first year working for what I’d consider to be a large company, I’ve become more interested in strategies around running and operating companies efficiently. My past experiences have been with startups or small companies where a lot of the challenges that larger companies face don’t exist.

Life After Google

Wired’s Betsy Schiffman compiled a list of ex-Google employees doing their own start-ups now or joining companies... which may or may not become Google competition. From Vanessa Fox to Kevin Fox, Biz Stone to Evan Williams, Jess Lee and others. An “attack against the mother ship,” as Henry Blodget called it.

Google Lets Go Of Postini Employees?

Last week, all eyes were on AOL, and perhaps even Yahoo, to see if employees would be let go prior to Christmas.  Now a surprising rumor has spread that Google filled the Grinch’s role by firing around 60 former Postini employees.

Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks

Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation added).

WebTrends CMO Departs

Nov 1st I reported about the management shakeup at Webtrends. The I did a follow-up after talking to several employees of Webtrends regarding these changes.

IT Managers Stressed By Employees

IT managers are more worried about end users creating a problem for their IT Systems than about attacks from hackers, according to the, "2007 State of Security Report", sponsored by Websense.

Highlights from Blogging for Business Conference

The Blogging for Business Conference was held 22 October 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Employees Still Prefer Email To Communicate

More than 70 percent of workers say that email is the most productive communication tool according to a survey from IT consulting firm Dimension Data Holdings.

Plane Crash Killed Two Microsoft Employees

Two Microsoft employees were among the victims of the sky diving plane crash in the Cascades that happened Sunday.

Seeking Well-Rounded Employees

It might sound like a wacky idea, but one that is quickly gaining popularity in the business world. The idea of IT savvy folks with enough business understanding to make things happen is getting more social pressure from companies and IT departments.