Date archive for March, 2010
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Why HR Departments Shouldn’t Write Online Marketing Job Ads
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
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.
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Awearness Blog: In Whose Best Interest Is Brooklyn’s New Superfund Site?
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.
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The Past Imperfect of ChicagoNow
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.)
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Chicagosphere Has Moved to Chicago Carless
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.
