You know the job market has become increasingly competitive. A standard resume or CV won’t really cut it these days. To stand out, there are ever-more random lengths people will go to in order to secure a job or even get noticed by potential employers. Take a look at some of the best job applications around.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/remarkable-hiring-stories.html
Here’s a triple shot of clever: not just teaching the alphabet and decorating a child’s room, but building a sense of context for how the child’s unique identity flows with the rest of the (alphabet) world. Nice, Kellie!
Ok. So I know this word has been redundant in my blog but this project really is SIMPLE! Every nursery needs an ABC artwork so why not integrate your baby’s name into it and make it personalized?
It started with a black frame that I got from Ikea’s AS IS section. I had no use for it but b/c it was dirt cheap, I figured I would use it ‘someday.’ Surely enough, I did and it serves its purpose fairly well!
I had to paint the frames stark white b/c nothing in Zoey’s room is black. 
Got these white glitter (subtle) letters from Michaels. They always have 40% off coupons on their website so print them out and utilize them.
From my scrapbook stock paper collection, I chose a pale pink as the background and a patterned blue as the letters for Zoey’s name.
A quick glance at the…
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Wordle is one of the coolest free toys I’ve seen in a while. I’ll let author Jonathan Feinberg‘s description speak for itself and get out your way so you can read it then start Wordling…
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Here’s one I made for my colleague, Susan Jacobs, as a birthday surprise for her office door:
So, what words will you use to create your own Wordle cloud?
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” — General Colin Powell
“Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.” — Mike Vance
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good manager doesn’t try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you’re the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong – that’s healthy.” – Robert Townsend
Susan E. Hendrich 