One Louder
Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.
Two Louder?
Can it be? But it goes to eleven. (Tip to Andy....will update with link...Andy?)
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 12/02/2009
Using LinkedIn for your Job Search
Oh, this is the blog post I would have liked to have written about LinkedIn if I had time and the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 12/01/2009
Michael Jackson, the Stock Market and Swine Flu, Oh my!
I'm starting to think that we have the media that we deserve. Where are the laughing cherubs and...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 12/01/2009
In-flight editorial is totally hot and covered with cooties
So it seems that in-flight magazines are the cockroaches of publication. Oh, only in their ability...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/29/2009
Navel gazing versus observing on Twitter
Oversharers that we are, Twitter has been asking us "What are you doing?" and we have responded with...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/20/2009
Up for one, down for two
Brand logo, flushing toilet. Does there always have to be a difference?
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/17/2009
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Have you heard that grunge is coming back? As someone who missed the full-on grunge experience,...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/11/2009
"The camera changed the way we behaved"
"Citizen journalism" (article by Paul Carr) is slippery. It's a big category with room for...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/09/2009
The 24 year old that designed the Windows 7 screen
This will make you feel old and stale if anything will. Because Chuck Anderson is amazingly...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/06/2009
Arrington, please
For the educated (by Gawker media) reader, how much of this do you think is driven by an actual...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/05/2009
Enough with the stickers already!
Once upon a time, Microsoft employees got t-shirts. Many, many t-shirts. It got old, as things are...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/28/2009
Windows 7 Shazam!
"Wow" doesn't cut it for me. "Wow" is what I say if a lady yells at her kids in public. Or if I see...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/16/2009
5K
OK, running officianados...I'm doing a 5K in about an hour. It's being held on campus for our giving...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/09/2009
Regretful. But it's handmade!
Cliff Kuang (but clearly not a Fast Company editor) highlights some of the worst handmade crafts to...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/08/2009
Working with Headhunters
My fellow "contrarian", Nick Corcodillos, offers advice on working with headhunters. I don't always...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/08/2009
What's the difference between a facebook status and a Twitter status?
I still have a bad taste in my mouth from having joined Twitter. When I "join" or commit to...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/07/2009
To have and to have not
Listed under "must-have gadgets" (for real), is this, the carbon-fiber travel case. All shiny and...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/02/2009
Resume clutter...ditch it!
This came up in a webinar I participated in this morning (will link to recording when I get...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 09/24/2009
Sometimes, when something looks like a fizzy scoop, it totally isn't.
I'm still restricting my viewing of news. More often than not, I want the time back. Weather report,...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 09/18/2009
Our flash mob is mobbier than your flash mob
Sometimes I am reminded why I love Seattle (sorry to steal your line Mike P., but I am right there...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/31/2009
Google gets their clams out of cans
I just watched the Top Chef episode last night. Can I help it if her corporate provenance makes it...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/28/2009
A study in customer service or lack thereof
Subtitle: JobFox has a customer service manager? I am not a vindictive person, despite being...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/27/2009
We are all getting dumber, one task at a time.
I'm not a fan of multi-tasking. And I think that an interview question designed to assess whether...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/25/2009
He who has the largest external talent pool to fish from wins
Or perhaps better put, "what's my motivation again for not recruiting your employees?" From what I...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/20/2009
We are totally a search engine company.
I can't imagine what this feels like for a developer at Yahoo! I always felt that the perception of...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/10/2009
Worthy of the effort it took to can them?
You decide.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/04/2009
Evaluating Career Opportunities Redux
I wrote this piece early last year, but I thought that in light of the economy (and what I hope are...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/22/2009
To be verbed or not to be verbed.
Walking the precarious line of brandiness; companies want to be verbed, but not so much that their...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/20/2009
Today in "what's your talent..."
Ryan Seacrest. Who can think of one? (I know. I am feeling snarky today.)
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/16/2009
Bill Gates' brain equals forty-three non-Gates brains
Interesting how Think Week has changed since Bill's role has decreased at good ole MS. I'll be back...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/15/2009
Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think about me?
OMG...you like Paris? I do too! You like books? I do too! For real? Please. No.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/09/2009
Ooh, I love Chicago, but...
this truly tests my trust in engineering. Preparations to throw-up have begun from 1500 miles away....
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2009
Ethical yoga: lead with your gut.
Here is a FastCompany article regarding thinking versus feeling decision-making when it comes to...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2009
As you gather for your awkward family 4th of July
You know, Aunt Ruth always brings the fruit salad with the marshmallows. And that don't float in...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/01/2009
Counter intuitively, working from home is for the extroverts
While I am not particularly surprised by this report, showing that the most effective home-workers...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/01/2009
Sometimes fear is good, especially when it's on the other guy
I really try not to be a Microsoft wonk. I try! Regular readers can attest to the fact that I am...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/16/2009