Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Check out this clip from Boston’s View on WCVB – Boston’s ABC affiliate.
As well as this blurb in Boston Magazine.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
At long last, the beta for Please Feed The Animals is up and running for your experimentation. Some initial known issues:
•Pleasefeedtheanimals.com still points you to the blog during the beta phase, while beta.pleasefeedtheanimals.com will take you to the career site
•The home page still needs a couple of tweaks. Mainly, the RSS feed of the blog [...]
Seems the idea (it’s only still a trailer at this point) about people who reinvent themselves after a job loss is striking a chord these days. Here are just a few of the media outlets that are discussing Lemonade. Oprah, call me. 617-359-8159.
Fast Company
Looking Beyond the Pink Slips: Lemonade the Movie Offers Inspiration for Plan [...]
Career Renegade’s Jonathan Fields interviewed me for the weekly segment on his blog called Career Profiles. Other than neglecting to lower my chair to camera level, I think it turned out pretty good.
If you’re not familiar with Jonathan Fields or his book, get familiar with it. As I alluded to in the interview, he’s doing [...]
Or, you can read the transcripts.
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Lots of news to catch you up on. Stop by PleaseFeedTheAnimals.com tomorrow at 2:00 PM EST and I’ll fill you in.
•The pictured logo won by a landslide. Final tally: 222-43.
•Designers have been working feverishly to finish production of the new site. We finally embraced the “many hands” mantra and asked for 1-2 days from a half dozen designers instead of a month from one. I always hoped that PFTA would be “by and for unemployed [...]
The rub on freelancing has been that typically, the juiciest assignments were left for the staff. The role of a contractor was to come in, mop up the garbage no one else wanted to touch, and collect their day rate. No one got hurt. Nice and tidy.
Then along comes Mr. Recession. For the first time [...]
Also filed in Ideas, Jobs, Pontifurbation, Survival
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Tagged advertising, employment, Freelance, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Survival, talent, unemployment
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Apparently, somewhere within the text of last week’s Japanese AdAge, Please Feed The Animals was mentioned as an example of how social media and web 2.0 are reshaping the way people in advertising look for work. The reporter who interviewed me tabbed this page in the reprint. I guess I’ll have to take her word for [...]
Here are a couple of logo iterations that reference zoo signage. I’m torn between the classic nature of the first and the designed look of the second. So, I’ll leave it up to you. Which should be PFTA’s new logo, and why?
<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1553829/” >Classic Zoo or Designed Zoo? Animals’ choice.</a> <br/> <span [...]
Also filed in Ideas, Kum Ba Yah, Shameless We-Promo
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Tagged advertising, Animals, Crowdsourcing, Hiring, Lay off, Layoff, Logo, Networking, talent, unemployment
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