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Meta’s 13% Job Cut Comes From Excessive Spending, Not Growth

Allwork

Meta has conducted its largest round of layoffs since being founded in 2004. . Formerly known as Facebook, the social media platform-turned-technology giant has consistently onboarded employees including data analysts, programmers, IT techs, marketing experts and more.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

Success

is a world-renowned pioneer and lead researcher of social robotics and human-robotics interaction. In 2004, she published her seminal book, Designing Sociable Robots , which presented her vision for social robots of the future. Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012.

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Five Ways to Respond to Social Media Challenges and Criticism

Andrea Kalli

Until 2004, media was closed to outsiders. Over the course of just three years, once powerful newspapers were reduced to specks on their former image, and social media services took over as the most frequent and powerful platform for internet users to find out just what was going on.

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Five Ways to Respond to Social Media Challenges and Criticism

Andrea Kalli

Over the course of just three years, once powerful newspapers were reduced to specks on their former image, and social media services took over as the most frequent and powerful platform for internet users to find out just what was going on. Social media attracts strong opinions, some politically charged and others personal.

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4 Things You Must Do for Your Career in 2017

On The Job

Writing childish and uncivil things on your social media accounts. That's not something you put on social media because it will -- I guarantee it -- come back to haunt you. Then think about how you would like a potential employer to drag up something you said on Facebook in 2004 and hold you accountable for it.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Previous to this I worked in such roles as Secretary to a group of Consultants, Marketing Assistant for an Architect firm, Facilities Coordinator for a construction company and Purchase Ledger for NHS Legal department just to name a few. What piece of advice would you give assistants coming into the profession today?

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Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support?

Loosely Speaking

As a result, clients in many industries are seeking VAs with proven expertise to manage their social media presence. This phenomenal growth of a new medium has me asking some questions: Just because you use social media, does that qualify you to charge other people to let you handle their social networking activities?