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“Stand by Me” performed by musicians around the world

From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

Order the CD/DVD Playing For Change “Songs Around The World” now at amazon.com!

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By Krissy Jackson

People are not content to read your website anymore. They want to see you and hear what you have to say. The great thing about these videos is that not only are you putting them out into the world to do their viral best; but you can distribute them on your websites and blogs, use them in your networking postings to strengthen an argument and add them to social networking sites. This is re-purposing at its very best!

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As part of your personal branding efforts it is a good idea to write articles about topics that support your career strengths, and to post them on online article banks.

When you have written an article it is very thrilling to find that others have reprinted it on their websites and blogs and in their newsletters, especially when you see that your article has been translated. When you add your articles to article banks, people are welcome to do this, however there is a rule, they must also reprint the ‘authors bio’ box in full too.

Do, be sure to check once in a while to make sure your intellectual property is not being stolen. Simply drop in the URL of the page your article is published on into the tool on this page: http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/url and any and all reprints will come up.

If your article is being plagiarized, contact the perpetrators and insist that they either add your bio or take your article down. If they ignore your request, you can, and should report them.

For more information about this and for great marketing ideas attend my next weekend seminar - where in one weekend we will take you from where you are now, to having a full page of Google hits, at least one article published online, and you presenting a topic of your choice live on Youtube!

Email: assistance(at)itgirlscoach.com to find out if you are eligible for this course.

By Krissy Jackson

Below is an excerpt from a paper I wrote recently on Managing Interpersonal Conflict in the Office if you would like a copy, please email my office at: info(at)talltreescoaching.com

Incivility

It is not just blatant bullying that is causing distress in today’s workplace; incivility is rife according to Pearson et al. (1990:55) who conducted a study in an effort to understand just how much performance was affected by incivility. The effects were even worse than they had suspected, “48% intentionally decreased work effort, 47% intentionally decreased time at work, 38% decreased work quality, 80% lost work time worrying about an incident, 63% lost time avoiding the offender, 66% said their performance declined, and 78% said that their commitment to the organization declined”…

“If there’s one big workplace lie that any new manager should wise up to fast, it’s “There are no office politics here.” Higher-ups may do their best to discourage gossip and to foster a schmooze-free meritocracy, but let’s be honest: There’s no workplace on the planet where fostering good relationships isn’t key to getting things done”.

And now that you’ve become a boss, it’s even more important that you “get” the political environment of your office and learn how to work effectively with higher-ups, peers, and direct reports. Here are five lessons Elaine Pofeldt and Adriana Gardella suggest you master in your first 90 days

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Well, it is that day again and you either love it or loathe it. Personally, Valentine’s Day always
leaves me feeling kind of flat.

Of course, if like me, your sexual persuasion means that you are with a man - what on earth do we imagine we are thinking???

This is yet another time when we expect these poor creatures to read our minds.

Our romance hormones are in overdrive and there is absolutely no way our rapidly becoming ‘less significant’ other could possibly live up to our bloated expectations.

I don’t know which is worse,

living with the shame that you are single on this couple only day,

or being in a couple trying to survive a day of roses which suddenly quadrupled in price overnight,

restaurants set corner to corner with tables for two, whose staff try to get you in and out as quickly as possible so that they might just get in three seatings over the course of the evening.

…or the inevitable tension around a day in which expectations or perceived expectations are so revoltingly high.

It’s enough to make you hide under the covers and not come out until the 15th …which actually might not be such a bad idea if your significant other would just stay there with you to keep you company!

Anyway before I let you get on with your day, I though I might share some of my best and worse valentines with you, as well as the history of valentines day.

My Valentine Highlights

- Writing cards to myself in boarding School, just so that I would not be the only one who didn’t get a card. I wonder how many of us did that?
- Days spent with guys in horrible tension, because we were not quite at the love stage of the relationship; wondering how we were going to get around this one without a fight.
- The looks on the other diners faces when my (then) husband insisted that I bring our 6 month old baby along to our valentines dinner/and his six month birthday …especially when I had to feed him halfway through dinner. I bet a lot of those young fresh couples though twice before they got intimate again

I invite you to post your own Valentines horror stories in the comments box below. We can definitely look back and laugh at them now.

Well, I wish you a happy Valentine’s Day, whatever that might mean for you - I am off now to terrorize my current better half.

To show our appreciation, please accept the following pre-recorded webinar with our warm regards.

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Video Recording - Webinar “Your Job Exit Strategy”

• Toleration clearing - Work Sheet
• Networking tip sheets - Live
• Networking tip sheets - Online
• Networking tip sheets - Inner Circle
• Tips for writing online resumes

The Global Dinner network
The GDN is the result of an idea a woman had when she was sitting alone in her hotel room while on a business trip to a foreign city. She thought ‘What can I do to make my time here more enjoyable? Surely I’m not the only woman having room service alone? I want to go for a run but I don’t know which areas are safe here.’ And so the GDN was born!

The GDN is a networking platform which you can use to:
• Make the most of your travelling by meeting local women
• Introduce foreign women travellers to your home town
• Get to know other GDN members in your area
• Meet other women in other offices of your own company
• Make useful contacts and new friends at home and all over the world - it’s an easy way to get to know new people
• Share information childcare or travel tips, recipes for last-minute dinner parties, restaurant recommendations…
• Share experiences and support with people in similar jobs or life situations
• Network for business and create opportunities
• …and so much more!
And you can access all this - including your GDN site-based communications* - with other GDN members from wherever you are, as long as you can get to a computer with Internet access.

Check out the Global Dinner Network - for women only

London, UK (PRWEB) July 7, 2009 — Women in IT positions often find themselves isolated and unable to access the information they need to further their career development. To address this issue womenintechnology.co.uk and Krissy Jackson, The IT Girls Career Coach have partnered to provide further training opportunities via webinar for women all around the Globe.

“This is a natural partnership. Both organizations are committed to assisting women in technology to build successful and satisfying careers”. “Partnering with the IT Girls Coach and adding webinars to career training course options is helping to dramatically extend the reach of womenintechnology.co.uk,” said Sarah Lilley the Events & Training Co-ordinator. “This month’s featured webinar already has 280 registrants from four continents.”

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New cyber-rules for resume writing
By Randy Woods
NWjobs

You think you know everything there is to know about resume writing?
Fuh-gedd-aboud-it, says Paul Anderson, a career and psychology expert with Kirkland-based ProLango Consulting. “The algorithm for resumes has changed significantly, even since last October,” he says.

The most noteworthy shift since the economic meltdown began last fall is that most people make the mistake of writing resumes for actual people. “Humans aren’t reading resumes anymore.”

Instead, they are being fed and processed to online resume software systems that are programmed to look for specific key words. If certain skill sets are not detected, the resume is summarily rejected well before an actual breathing person has a chance to read that you have an interest in photography and “work well with others.”

Anderson, who teaches free seminars on career search advice, interviewing tips and resume writing, says this online resume revolution has rewritten the basic rules of how resumes are crafted. Here are a few pointers to write for these resume software algorithms:

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Resume Writing Basics