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Academic Studies Show Gig Economy Larger Than Government Data Suggests

Small Business Labs

  Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income looked at data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Household Economics and Decision Making (SHED). The study found "28 percent of adults age 18 and older participated in informal work for pay during the survey reference month."

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

It is not illegal for an information technology firm and a janitorial services company to form a partnership, but how many opportunities will that create?” When I started as a government contract consultant in 2005, I would accept all kinds of consulting: sales and marketing, certification, business development and contracts.

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What is Computational Anthropology?

Small Business Labs

  We use ethnography on a regular basis and most large corporations use some form of ethnographic research. Near real-time data is used to measure revenue (receipts) per company, which is compiled into an index starting from 100 in January 2005 for each industry group.

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The Common Mistakes Futurists Make

Small Business Labs

And if somebody really could predict the future, do you think they would share that information? This term was coined in the late 1990's and in the 2002-2005 time frame it was a very hot trend.  But like many trends, it's back in more mature forms and this time may really be the next big thing. 

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More on Social Shopping - Groupon

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Accounting a Barbell Industry | Main | Why Arent Newspapers Doing Social Shopping?   Social shopping is a form of social networking where consumers and/or retailers aggregate and share information about products, prices and deals. . 

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We all have relationship regrets — and here’s how we can learn from them

Ideas.Ted

In 2005, Deepa’s husband sent a note to the people in his wife’s life informing them that Deepa had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. . Amy and Deepa stayed friendly in high school and stayed in touch after graduation as they moved on with college, careers and families. Amy wanted to call her old friend.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Laughing all the Way to Work

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-worker's favourite, OMG! The following information should be included in your message: 1) The start and end dates of your absence. The following information should be included in your message: 1) The start and end dates of your absence.

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