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Buzzwords are evil and must be stopped
I was dynamically engaging one of my fellow content marketers in the company brainstorming arena the other day, when I came up with a win-win value proposition for in-house onboarding of new talent to help us velocitize our organic campaigns. It's...
Tags: Rex Huppke
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Harris: Google's Eric Schmidt on North Korea and technology's future
Google's glasses may one day whisper in your ear an old acquaintance's name when you unexpectedly bump into them at a party. Google's car will drive itself in years — not decades. And what if Google's search engine could predict a question you...Tags: Fiction, Networking, North Korea, Melissa Harris, Beijing (China)
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In trust we trust
Imagine me walking into a corporate executive's office. Me: How important is trust to the health of your workplace? Executive: Why, it's critical. Awkward pause. Executive: Who are you? And why are you in my office wearing pajamas? Me: I'm...Tags: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Rex Huppke, Employment Opportunities
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DePaul arena would anchor event center near McCormick Place, source says
Convention officials are close to unveiling plans for an arena to house the DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team, two hotels and an array of restaurants and entertainment venues next to the McCormick Place convention campus, with an announcement...
Tags: DePaul Blue Demons , Pat Quinn, Near South Side, Finance, Chicago Hotels
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JPMorgan board members targeted by shareholder advisers
JPMorgan Chase, one of the nation's largest banks, survived the financial crisis better than most — only to have the $6 billion "London Whale" trading loss last year expose embarrassing flaws in its accounting and risk controls. Influential...
Tags: Business, Real Estate, U.S. Department of Transportation, Finance, Politics
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Metz: Toronto trio is all out, all the time
A few weeks ago, the Toronto trio Metz was played a midafternoon gig at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, with such fury that the welt-inducing performance left me questioning the band members’ physical well-being and sanity....
Tags: Toronto (Canada), Ottawa (Canada), Music, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Greg Kot
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Significant sequels
In the last six months, three highly regarded restaurant chef/operators — Stephanie Izard of Girl & the Goat, Graham Elliot of his eponymous restaurant, and David Flom and Matt Moore of Chicago Cut Steakhouse — have opened sequel restaurants,...
Tags: Eggs Benedict, Graham Elliot, Credit and Debt, Shrimp, Restaurants
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Analyzing your quitting fantasies
Hi there, readers. I'd like to talk about your fantasies. Not THOSE fantasies, you pervs. This is a family workplace column. I'm talking about your "quitting fantasies" — the daydreams we have about the most satisfying way to exit a job. Say...
Tags: Auto Trends, The Happiest News!, Rex Huppke, Harvard University, Human Interest
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Phil Vettel: Two stars for Bread & Wine
To appreciate Bread & Wine, the 16-month-old restaurant in the Irving Park neighborhood, it helps to be less literal and more observant. For instance, you might be surprised, as I was initially, to discover that the kitchen doesn't set out much bread....
Tags: Restaurants, Irving Park, Rhubarb, Cabbage, Dining and Drinking
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Sci-fi worthy of Malthus
In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it. This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had...
Tags: James Cameron, Fiction, Battle: Los Angeles (movie), Tom Cruise, Microsoft Corporation
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What makes a happy worker happy?
The workplace advice columnist has only one natural enemy: the happy worker (Laborius contentus). This rare — some might say mythical — creature poses a threat to anyone who dispenses workplace-improvement tips for a living. But rather...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, The Happiest News!, Rex Huppke, Human Interest
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Gambling bill would allow PokerStars, Full Tilt to apply for an online gaming license
A gambling expansion bill is back, but it now includes a provision that would allow PokerStars, once accused by federal prosecutors of money laundering and fraud, to compete for an online gaming license in Illinois. In the first draft of Senate Bill...
Tags: Online Media Industry, Finance, FBI, The New York Times, Terry Link
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