The lovely and amazing performance poet Gabrielle Bouliane performs for the audience at the Austin Poetry Slam. This would be her last public performance.
Gabrielle was diagnosed with Stage Four Cancer shortly before this video was filmed. She fought hard, but ended her fight January 29, 2010. She was surrounded by family and friends, and her passing was in a very quiet, peaceful room full of love and affection.
Here's a statistic from the article, (published February 3, 2010), that might shock you: "For job seekers, it won't be easy to figure out where to go next. In its 10-year employment outlook, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that 96% of job growth between now and 2018 will come from service-providing industries, the top sectors being professional and business services and health care and social assistance. Cappelli says such long-term projections aren't worth much to job seekers, however, because people adapt to them the same way investors react to a stock tip -- by flooding the market. "Everyone says there are jobs in health care, but nursing schools have been at capacity for quite a while," Cappelli notes. Likewise, the financial and construction industries are in the doldrums now, but when they recover, they might roar back. "Things flip around as quickly [in the job market] as in the investment industry, but individuals can't flip their careers around so quickly," he adds.
The article quotes Phillip Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. "The most buoyant part, the most consistently positive part of college hiring has been small employers." According to the Institute's latest Recruiting Trends survey, large companies (those with more than 4,000 employees) plan to decrease hiring by 3% in 2010, and mid-sized companies (those with 500 to 4,000 employees) expect to decrease hiring by 11%. However, small companies (with 100 to 499 employees) expect to increase hiring by 15%, and fast-growth companies (from 9 to 100 people) by 26%.
The article is a realistic look at the future of global employment over the next ten years. Highly recommend.
iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds: Incredible, Beautiful, Amazing!
Bored of watching the full iPad keynote? No problem! The following video by Neal Curtis sums it up to convenient 180 seconds of all the important words spoken there. I assure you, that no scene is repeated and everything was said on this keynote! Oh, and please don't take it personal: it's meant to be humor!
Neal did an amazing, great, incredible, beautiful job of editing the release of the Moses Tablet (AKA, iPad, iTampon, iWant2KillMyself, etc.)
ADM Research Notes Podcast Advertising Appeals to “Unreachable” Consumers.
I had the good fortune to participate in a webinar hosed by The Association for Downloadable Media, in conjunction with Edison Research. They presented the findings of a recently concluded Podcast Consumer Attitudes study. The respondents to this online study of active podcast consumers indicated that, although they are increasingly turning away from some mass media platforms and advertising approaches, they are receptive to advertising and sponsorship messages in downloadable media. These consumers also show a significant tendency to consume podcasts on their mobile phones, highlighting the importance of the channel as a truly portable medium.
According to Edison Research Vice President Tom Webster, “A podcast advertising buy is not a redundant media buy for advertisers and marketers. These are attractive, affluent consumers that mass media is losing.” He also notes, “Ninety percent of these respondents indicated that they had taken some kind of action as a result of podcast advertising or sponsorship, and over 40% reported purchasing behaviors, which indicates that they are receptive to the right message, in the right context.”
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