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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. . CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that over 11,000 people (around 13%) of employees would be laid off across various departments, with recruiting and business teams feeling the largest impact. .

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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. “We

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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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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Sherien Ahmed @sherienSA , PA to Senior Management Team, Venture Trust. After I moved to Edinburgh in 2004, I’ve worked in a series of roles which have all involved executive support at senior level. Make sure you are up to speed with all the new office programmes, apps, social media and technology and use this to your advantage.

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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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Foreign Born in the US Workforce

Small Business Labs

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.   Again, this is little changed from 2008 but up from 49% in 2004.  Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research.   Foreign born workers comprise about 15.5%

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Roundup #5 Prescott Style

Loosely Speaking

Like everyone these days, you probably find yourself spread thin in efforts to keep up with social media, Web sites, blogs, and other reading in your quest for valuable, accurate information. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. The company offers rates ranging from free up to $149/month. Loose Ends.

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