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Lately I have read several articles saying that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not that important any more. Google is becoming smarter and smarter. As long as you have excellent content, Google will find you and let the world know about your content.
I’m not so sure.
You might have noticed that I recently made some changes [...]

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I read a lot of blogs. Blogs might have some grammatical or spelling errors, but a lot of bloggers really know their stuff. They are subject matter experts. They are authentic, insightful, and prolific. I trust well-known bloggers more than most journalists. A lot of journalists don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re simply a [...]

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You just received your "LinkedIn Network Update" email. Your colleague, Mary Anne, had updated her LinkeIn profile, added 75 new connections, received 3 new recommendations, and joined 3 groups.
What kind of intelligence can you infer from above information?
Let me tell you something. There is a high probability that Mary Anne is looking for a new [...]

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I’m the biggest critic of my own blog writing. Sometime I really struggle to put together blog posts. But, I also set the goal for myself that I would like to make at least 3 posts a week.
Lately I’ve tried a few “tricks” to overcome writer’s block. Although they don’t work all the time, they [...]

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A few months ago I came across the personal finance blog Wise Bread. The site immediately caught my attention.
Wise Bread is only a little bit over two years ago, but it has achieve some very impressive traffic stats:

it averages 1 million page views and 500K unique users per month
its Alexa ranking is 24,493 [...]

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Given the current state of economy and job market, I know a lot of people who are thinking about moving to a new city with better job prospect and lower cost of living.
Relocation is not easy. For most people who relocate to a new city, they will have to face two very stressful [...]

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I first noticed the popularity of Netbook during this past Christmas season. Costco was carrying two brands of Netbook computers (Acer Aspire One and HP Mini .) They were all sold out within a couple of weeks.
According to data from Gartner, in third quarter of 2008, 5.6 million Netbook computers were shipped compared [...]

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Twelve years ago, when I was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, I was very fortunate to take the Fuzzy Logic course taught by the legendary Professor Zadeh, who invented the field of Fuzzy Logic.
The class not only introduced a very exciting new field to me, but also taught me to look at our [...]

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When A.B. Farquhar, a Pennsylvania businessman, mentioned to Carnegie that he was always sure to be in his office by “seven in the morning”, Carnegie remarked laughingly:
“You must be a lazy man if it takes you ten hours to do a day’s work.”
“’What I do,’ he said, ‘is to get good men, and I never [...]

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When you receive your paycheck each time, do you check and make sure it’s correct?
I know some folks who never bothers to check — their paychecks are automatically deposited into their bank accounts. But, let me tell you that I have run into all sorts of payroll errors throughout my career:

Travel expenses were not reimbursed [...]

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