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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,” a Netflix representative told TechCrunch last week. “We

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UX Workshops by Celebrated Author & Usability Expert, Eric Reiss

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He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. Reiss is a world-renowned usability expert.

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. The firm's CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Sargent , has an interesting background, most recently serving as an executive at Variety/Reed Business Information. Everyone knows this.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it. Saying, ''Hey, we want to pay you to write a book.’

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Hard Decisions Require Empathy

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He enacted a program to proactively offer payment holidays to customers in obviously “hit” industries like travel & entertainment. If your company can help with job search, or resume writing or providing references or calling other companies to tell them you did redundancies?—?you you should do all that you can. you should do it.

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Interview with Jan Zands, Phonesheet.com

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Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there. So, instead of writing down a message, they can put it into this really, easy-to-use system. Since the entertainment industry knows about it, we're going to the rest of the world.

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