Why HR Departments Shouldn’t Write Online Marketing Job Ads (5)
3/08/10 •
A local nonprofit recently applied an absurd requirement in an online-marketing employment ad rendering almost all job hunters unqualified. Here’s why you shouldn’t rely on your HR department to write ads for critical, web-related jobs.
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Windy Citizen Widens Discussion with New “Essential Chicago” Facebook Page (0)
3/07/10 •
The Windy Citizen, Chicago’s leading community-news forum, is bringing the discussion to Facebook. Debuting this month as a home for conversations about all things local: WC’s ‘Essential Chicago’ Facebook page.
Awearness Blog: In Whose Best Interest Is Brooklyn’s New Superfund Site? (0)
3/07/10 •
The EPA just added Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal to the Superfund list, fast-tracking a cleanup effort for the long-polluted waterway. But whether that’s an environmentally just outcome depends on whom you ask.
The Past Imperfect of ChicagoNow (16)
3/01/10 •
You can’t run a 21st-century blog network at the speed of a 19th-century newspaper. I wish someone would tell the Chicago Tribune. Here’s how institutional lethargy, inadequate tools, inscrutable navigation, and newsroom pushback make it hard to be a successful ChicagoNow blogger. (This post has now officially become the top-rated Windy Citizen story of all time.)
Chicagosphere Has Moved to Chicago Carless (3)
3/01/10 •
My Chicagosphere online-media blog has ended production–but as of today, you can find all my former Chicagosphere entries migrated right here to Chicago Carless.
UPS and Toxic Brand Marketing (0)
2/28/10 •
When rolling out a national ad campaign, it helps to make use of your most recognizable icon. Borrowing the look of another company’s icon? Not so helpful. So why does the UPS Store ad in the March 2010 issue of Fast Company look like a promo for Disney’s ‘Cars’?
Misery of CTA Riders Has Company: San Franciscans Plagued By Ingrate Transit Union, Too (3)
2/28/10 •
If you think Chicago is the only place in America where a transit union has angered an entire city, think again. This week, San Franciscans are getting ready to play hardball with their intransigent transit union, too.
What Is Your Oath of Chicagoanship? (4)
2/28/10 •
Maybe it would help native and newcomer Chicagoans get along better if we had a civic creed to help us tell real Chicagoans from mere Midwestern posers. If you had to raise your right hand and swear your loyalty to Chicago in order to be considered a Chicagoan, what would your oath be?
Why New Yorkers Shouldn’t Look for Sweet Home in Chicago (4)
2/28/10 •
A recent discussion thread in the popular, urbanist City-Data Forum asked for reasons why some people shouldn’t move to Chicago. Speaking as an ex-New Yorker who very annoyingly used to measure every city by the standard of the five boroughs, I can think of eight million people who might want to consider a reason to stay home.
Chicago Weekly Aims to Cover Hyde Park (0)
2/25/10 •
As major Chicago media increasingly search for inroads into community news on the Internet, some existing sites are doing a good job of covering neighborhood-level news all on their own, especially on the South Side. One of them is the University of Chicago-based Chicago Weekly, an alternative weekly taking on the responsibility of keeping the Presidential first-neighborhood informed.
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