One Louder

Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.

Two Louder?

Can it be? But it goes to eleven. (Tip to Andy....will update with link...Andy?)

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 12/02/2009

Oh, this is the blog post I would have liked to have written about LinkedIn if I had time and the...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 12/01/2009

Michael Jackson, the Stock Market and Swine Flu, Oh my!

I'm starting to think that we have the media that we deserve. Where are the laughing cherubs and...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 12/01/2009

In-flight editorial is totally hot and covered with cooties

So it seems that in-flight magazines are the cockroaches of publication. Oh, only in their ability...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/29/2009

Oversharers that we are, Twitter has been asking us "What are you doing?" and we have responded with...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/20/2009

Up for one, down for two

Brand logo, flushing toilet. Does there always have to be a difference?

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/17/2009

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

Have you heard that grunge is coming back? As someone who missed the full-on grunge experience,...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/11/2009

"The camera changed the way we behaved"

"Citizen journalism" (article by Paul Carr) is slippery. It's a big category with room for...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/09/2009

The 24 year old that designed the Windows 7 screen

This will make you feel old and stale if anything will. Because Chuck Anderson is amazingly...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/06/2009

Arrington, please

For the educated (by Gawker media) reader, how much of this do you think is driven by an actual...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 11/05/2009

Enough with the stickers already!

Once upon a time, Microsoft employees got t-shirts. Many, many t-shirts. It got old, as things are...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/28/2009

Windows 7 Shazam!

"Wow" doesn't cut it for me. "Wow" is what I say if a lady yells at her kids in public. Or if I see...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/16/2009

5K

OK, running officianados...I'm doing a 5K in about an hour. It's being held on campus for our giving...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/09/2009

Regretful. But it's handmade!

Cliff Kuang (but clearly not a Fast Company editor) highlights some of the worst handmade crafts to...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/08/2009

Working with Headhunters

My fellow "contrarian", Nick Corcodillos, offers advice on working with headhunters. I don't always...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/08/2009

What's the difference between a facebook status and a Twitter status?

I still have a bad taste in my mouth from having joined Twitter. When I "join" or commit to...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/07/2009

To have and to have not

Listed under "must-have gadgets" (for real), is this, the carbon-fiber travel case. All shiny and...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 10/02/2009

Resume clutter...ditch it!

This came up in a webinar I participated in this morning (will link to recording when I get...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 09/24/2009

Sometimes, when something looks like a fizzy scoop, it totally isn't.

I'm still restricting my viewing of news. More often than not, I want the time back. Weather report,...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 09/18/2009

Our flash mob is mobbier than your flash mob

Sometimes I am reminded why I love Seattle (sorry to steal your line Mike P., but I am right there...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/31/2009

Google gets their clams out of cans

I just watched the Top Chef episode last night. Can I help it if her corporate provenance makes it...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/28/2009

A study in customer service or lack thereof

Subtitle: JobFox has a customer service manager? I am not a vindictive person, despite being...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/27/2009

We are all getting dumber, one task at a time.

I'm not a fan of multi-tasking. And I think that an interview question designed to assess whether...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/25/2009

He who has the largest external talent pool to fish from wins

Or perhaps better put, "what's my motivation again for not recruiting your employees?" From what I...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/20/2009

We are totally a search engine company.

I can't imagine what this feels like for a developer at Yahoo! I always felt that the perception of...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/10/2009

Worthy of the effort it took to can them?

You decide.

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 08/04/2009

Evaluating Career Opportunities Redux

I wrote this piece early last year, but I thought that in light of the economy (and what I hope are...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/22/2009

To be verbed or not to be verbed.

Walking the precarious line of brandiness; companies want to be verbed, but not so much that their...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/20/2009

Today in "what's your talent..."

Ryan Seacrest. Who can think of one? (I know. I am feeling snarky today.)

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/16/2009

Bill Gates' brain equals forty-three non-Gates brains

Interesting how Think Week has changed since Bill's role has decreased at good ole MS. I'll be back...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/15/2009

Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think about me?

OMG...you like Paris? I do too! You like books? I do too! For real? Please. No.

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/09/2009

Ooh, I love Chicago, but...

this truly tests my trust in engineering. Preparations to throw-up have begun from 1500 miles away....

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2009

Ethical yoga: lead with your gut.

Here is a FastCompany article regarding thinking versus feeling decision-making when it comes to...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/02/2009

As you gather for your awkward family 4th of July

You know, Aunt Ruth always brings the fruit salad with the marshmallows. And that don't float in...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/01/2009

Counter intuitively, working from home is for the extroverts

While I am not particularly surprised by this report, showing that the most effective home-workers...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 07/01/2009

Sometimes fear is good, especially when it's on the other guy

I really try not to be a Microsoft wonk. I try! Regular readers can attest to the fact that I am...

Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/16/2009

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