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Are Meetings Passé?

Rebecca Thorman — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:30:02 +0000

Meetings are a dying breed of face-to-face engagement that have taken on more angst, agony and abuse in recent years than even the lowly cubicle.

“There’s nothing more toxic to productivity than a meeting,” Jason Fried Read more ...

Will Gen Y ruin local community?

Rebecca Thorman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:52:14 +0000

The recession has changed everything for Gen Y. While we continue to embrace idealism, meaningful change is much harder.

And while young people have the best intentions to be part of the communities we live in, we’re being challenged by a number Read more ...

Social media is difficult like intimacy

Rebecca Thorman — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:42:30 +0000

“Yeah, but it’s just a blog,” someone said. About this blog. My blog. We were talking about social media.

I didn’t have a response at the time. I was like George in that Seinfeld episode (he goes to great lengths to deliver a retort to a coworker), flounder Read more ...

Generation Y is the ER doctor of generations

Rebecca Thorman — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:58:12 +0000

At the bottom of the hospital hierarchy are ER doctors.

I know this because straight out of college I dated two med-students back to back. Also, Belle’s boyfriend is a neurosurgery resident. He never lets me forget it. Which is fine bec Read more ...

Generation Y is too quiet, too conservative

Rebecca Thorman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:44:36 +0000

I was sitting in a classroom. The walls were covered in plaster and moldings, but behind all that was red brick, so red that the color seeped through the cracks of the old windows, and the sun, and the light, and the energy filled the almost summer air.

It was a time when I was – more or less – happy, and we were seated, twent Read more ...

The top 3 things you can do to save the world. Literally.

Rebecca Thorman — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:30:56 +0000

This post is part of Blog Action Day. I do not have any advertising on this site, so I cannot donate the revenue. Instead, I am donating .25 for every subscriber I have today and splitting the donation between my favorite Read more ...

How video games can show us how to engage Generation Y (or anyone)

Rebecca Thorman — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:02:05 +0000

Full disclosure and necessary reminiscing: I grew up with a second-hand Nintendo (shout out to my pals Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda). Before that I played on a second-hand Atari (Pac-Man, Read more ...