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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. Sucher, a management professor at Harvard. .

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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

Sherien Ahmed @sherienSA , PA to Senior Management Team, Venture Trust. Sally Lloyd @salidatious Assstant to Managing Director, CodeBase. After I moved to Edinburgh in 2004, I’ve worked in a series of roles which have all involved executive support at senior level. The PAs behind the Network. Location: Edinburgh.

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

For example, BakerWrite is a speed writing system that was created by Heather Baker in 2004. This style of abbreviation has been used in online chatrooms, forums, text messages, and social media for decades already, so it will feel somewhat familiar to most people. Many of the speed writing systems are also more modern.

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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?

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Having the Moxie to Let Go When You Can't Hold On

Virtual Moxie

It was managed via a majordomo mailing list, and was very high tech and high touch at the time. Suffice it to say that the burn out was so bad that I couldn’t even make myself write anything that I shared outside the AssistU community until I started VMoxie in 2004.

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