The Wall Street Journal
No Time to Read This? Read This
Twitter It!By: Sue Shellenbarger/ The Wall Street Journal
Are things you need to get done falling between the cracks? Does taking an entire day off seem impossible?
Maybe you need a time-management system.
Many readers seem to think they do, based on the email response to my recent column on the importance of taking time off. Dozens [...]
The Next Youth-Magnet Cities
Twitter It!By: The Wall Stret Journal/SUE SHELLENBARGE
If you were a recent college graduate in a recovering economy launching a career, looking for a mate or both, where would you choose to live?
Predicting cities that will emerge as post-recession meccas for the young is easy to argue about, but impossible to forecast empirically. Whether you prefer [...]
Plumbing for Joy? Be Your Own Boss
Twitter It!By: SUE SHELLENBARGER/The Wall Street Journal
By economic yardsticks, Roger the Plumber should be feeling pretty low. Roger Peugeot, owner of the 14-employee Overland Park, Kan., plumbing company that bears his name, is part of a sector hit hard by shrunken credit and slumping sales. He has been forced to reduce staff and is battling [...]
Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
Twitter It!By: Michael Arrington
The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late 2008 they launched WSJ Community, a social network bolted onto the main WSJ site. That community is a ghost town – [...]
For Companies, a Tweet in Time Can Avert PR Mess
Twitter It!By: The Wall Street Journal / Sarah E. Needleman
For Companies, a Tweet in Time Can Avert PR Mess
A growing number of businesses are tracking social-media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter to gauge consumer sentiment and avert potential public-relations problems.
Ford Motor Co., PepsiCo Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co., among others, are deploying software [...]