Saturday, 16 May 2009

What’s Your Best Career Advice, Using EXACTLY Six Words?

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Pete Johnson

Welcome to a Cool Careers channel podcast on Total Picture Radio, this is Peter Clayton reporting. Our good friend and frequent contributor to Total Picture Radio, Jason Alba, the founder of JibberJobber, recently connected me to Pete Johnson, whose blog is called Nerd Guru. Pete is currently the Portals and Marketing Solutions IT Chief Architect at Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since graduating from UC San Diego with a BSCS degree in 1993.

Pete used Linkedin Answers to pose the headline question: What’s your best career advice, using EXACTLY 6 words? Here's how Pete framed the question:

In January around the time of the inauguration, the Bush daughters wrote the Obama daughters a letter giving them advice on living in the public eye inside the White House. The most widely quoted part of that letter was pretty touching, “Remember who your dad really is.”

At about the same time, Newsweek ran a short story about a collection of 6 word memoirs put out by Smith Magazine on the topic of love.

Given that Jenna and Barbara’s advice happened to be exactly 6 words long, and that I have an interest in mentoring, I thought it would make for an interesting experiment to see what people might come up with on the topic of career advice. So, what’s the best career advice you have, using EXACTLY 6 words?

Pete received well over 100 responses to his question, and Scott Allen picked up the story on his About.com Entrepreneurs Blog.

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"Pulling the Plug" on Pandora?

"70 percent of the music in the Pandora collection comes from artists who are not on a label." Tim Westergren

Tim Westergren

Here's an excerpt from Peter Whoriskey's Washington Post Article, Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'

"'We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,' said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. 'This is like a last stand for webcasting.'"

"The transformation of words, songs and movies to digital media has provoked a number of high-stakes fights between the owners of copyrighted works and the companies that can now easily distribute those works via the Internet. The doomsday rhetoric these days around the fledgling medium of Web radio springs from just such tensions."

"Last year, an obscure federal panel ordered a doubling of the per-song performance royalty that Web radio stations pay to performers and record companies."

"Traditional radio, by contrast, pays no such fee. Satellite radio pays a fee but at a less onerous rate, at least by some measures. As for Pandora, its royalty fees this year will amount to 70 percent of its projected revenue of $25 million, Westergren said, a level that could doom it and other Web radio outfits."

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High-Quality TV Meets the Long Tail

Will niche TV programming on the Internet disintermediate traditional cable?

Jim Louderback

Welcome to a Cool Careerists edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton. Joining us is Jim Louderback the CEO of Revision3, an internet television network focused on developing high-quality nonfiction programming for the on-demand generation. Jim is the former Senior Vice President and Editor-in- Chief of Ziff Davis' Consumer Tech Division, which includes PC Magazine, PCMag.com, Gearlog.com, ExtremeTech, DL.TV, and Cranky Geeks.

We met Jim at the mediabistro Circus, where he participated in a panel discussion with Dina Kaplan from blip.tv and Robert Scoble, Managing director of Fast Company TV. Here's the discription from the mediabistro Circus program: "Online video is one of the most powerful tools that can be used to tell a story, build a brand and engage an audience; but producing an effective video is more than a camera and an editing program. Guest speakers in this session will discuss where the future of internet video is headed, why including video into your strategy makes sense and the very different ways to make the most of this technology platform."

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