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Two Minutes with Andriene Hyman, Navy Wife

Posted on June 19, 2012 | No Comments
Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? I was born in Visalia, California, Tulare County. I moved around a lot since my family was in the Air...
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Military | BRIDGE – A Life Science Direction for Captain Andrew Orth

Posted on March 23, 2012 | No Comments
Most U.S. servicemen believe that the military prepares them for the future by emphasizing attention to detail, focusing on having a good plan, and learning how to adapt to situations...
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The Tale of Two Taylors | How two local businesses are going lean

Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
The term “lean” was used in the 80s to describe Toyota’s business manufacturing model – in 30 years, lean has branched out from the Toyota floor to become pervasive in...
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Changes and Trends in HR

Posted on March 29, 2011 | No Comments
Not so long ago, human resource (HR) professionals were viewed as the long-armed police of upper management that pushed around a lot of paper. But the times are a changing....
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Q7 – Seven Questions

Posted on February 21, 2011 | No Comments
Teresa Siles, Director of Social Media, Nuffer Smith Tucker Upfront recently caught up with Teresa Siles, Director of Social Media at Nuffer Smith Tucker (who recently hosted the second annual...
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The Creative Class

Posted on February 17, 2011 | No Comments
What’s the one skill a person needs for any job? Creativity. Of course, we need basic left-brain (logical) skills to perform in most positions – like the ability to budget and calculate, and to follow instructions. For some professions, the necessary skills are mostly black and white – like computer programming or accounting.
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Ask Edwina the Expert

Posted on February 4, 2011 | No Comments
Q. Why is it so hard to have a good team? A. Individually, team members frequently don’t understand the environment, roles, responsibilities, communication behaviors, and other activities that support good...
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Why Project Management?

Posted on February 4, 2011 | No Comments
Most of us did not grow up planning to be a project manager. We may have wished to be a police officer, or a fire fighter, or even president of the United States, but not a project manager! It just was not something that came to the front of our thoughts as we got older, went to school, and planned for our careers.
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How Social Media Is Changing Journalism | An interview with KPBS’s Ed Joyce

Posted on January 28, 2011 | No Comments
Nearly three out of four global Internet users now access social networking sites, according to comScore, Inc., a company that tracks the online audience. Twitter grew 109 percent worldwide last year, getting 93 million visitors. KPBS news environmental reporter Ed Joyce was one of them.
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A Lifelong Dream of Wine Realized

Posted on January 28, 2011 | No Comments
Michael Cheatham grew up in Europe and each summer, he and his family would spend 30 days on the road touring the countryside of Europe. The thing he remembers most from these annual trips is food and wine.
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