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Five Free Spots in The Countdown Book Club
By Porchlight
We are giving away five memberships to The Countdown Book Club over on InBubbleWrap. Jump over and drop your name in the hat. A new offer goes up on Monday.
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InBubbleWrap Returns
By Porchlight
You may have missed the news we buried inside the Kotter post from yesterday. InBubbleWrap is back. If you are new to us, we have a sister site that gives away free books.
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Launching The Countdown Book Club
By Porchlight
Our communication has been sporadic on the book project. Kate, our air traffic controller, is imploring us to get with it and start telling you what we have been up to. She's right and there is a lot that has happened.
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Open Position: Customer Service Representative
By Porchlight
Customer Service Representative We are looking for an individual to join our operations group as a customer service representative. Your job will be to take care of our customers, managing their orders from the time they are taken until the time the shipment arrives. This will involve obtaining all the pertinent information for the order, placing the purchase order with our suppliers, and tracking the order during shipment.
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Pecha Kucha Night - Slideshow - June 17, 2008
By Porchlight
Our first Pecha Kucha Night was a great success! We had a ton of fun--check out the pictures--and were impressed with each of the presenters. I'm sure we'll share more thoughts this week, but for now we invite you to enjoy Pecha Kucha Night as we experienced it.
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Cubicle Warfare - office fun for the summer
By Porchlight
No matter how fun or creative your job is, there's always the office space issue to deal with. Cubicles, frustrating fax machines, a copier that seems to run out of toner only for you, fluorescent lights and the scent of old coffee grounds. One of the best ways to cope with these conditions is humor--and sometimes pranks.
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Thoughts on Seth Godin's "How To Read a Business Book"
By Porchlight
Seth Godin wrote a great post on Wednesday titled How to read a business book. I encourage everyone to go read it in its entirety. The main points are that business books are essentially recipes for action, but that the majority of a book's words are spent convincing and motivating the reader to action.
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What Is Wrong With Business Books?! - Part I
By Porchlight
I first found out through email from my friend Sara at Cave Henricks Communications about the publication of my letter to the editors of Fast Company. Below is the full text of the letter I sent in response to Elizabeth Spiers' Library of the Living Dead essay that appeared in the April 2008 issue. I have used bold to highlight the portion they published in the magazine.
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It's done.
By Porchlight
We seem to have skipped the news that the manuscript is done. The likely cause of that lack of reporting is everyone left town (physically or mentally). Jack hopped on a plane catch some Florida sun.
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Beard or Book: Day 16
By Porchlight
It's Day 16. The book and beard are both longer. The book currently weighs in at 87,126 words spread out over 429 manuscript pages.
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