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Working for Free

• 08.04.10
  Permalink: Here Comes Everybody Book Review, Collaborating, Education, Lessons Learned, Motivation, Networking, Working for Free | (1)

  HERE COMES EVERYBODY And They're Coming to Teach You Things You Need to Know By: Victoria Goldenberg Could No Shortage of Work (NSoW) have existed 20 years ago? The costs in time, money and labor to gather and direct members and run a publication might not have justified the modest and seemingly unrealistic ends of encouraging people to work for free. But now that the Internet is widely accessible, setting up the NSoW Web site was relatively inexpensive and easy. More important, communities commonly assemble around Web sites without anyone organizing them. The formerly difficult task of finding people and directing them ...
• 07.14.10
  Permalink: Smash your TV Book Review, Conversations, Motivation, Philosophy, TV Alternatives, Working for Free | (2)

  SMASH IN YOUR TV AND SET YOUR MIND FREE by Brooke Allen I was eight when we got our first television. Although it cost a month’s take-home pay, my parents consumed it sparingly, as if it were candy. In the eighth grade I became interested in Amateur Radio, and lost interest in TVs configured as receivers, so I took one apart and rebuilt it as a shortwave transmitter. When my friends watched the Flintstones, I talked to people all over the world. Yet television is insidious and relentless, and by my senior year in high school, my father, mother, sister, and I would spend ...
• 03.28.10
  Permalink: Recession Proof Graduate Education, Philosophy, Reviews, Working for Free | (2)

  RECESSION PROOF GRADUATE A Review by NSoW subscriber: Ariel Gros-Werter Charlie Hoehn, in his free on-line e-book, “Recession-Proof Graduate”, outlines how a newly-graduated 22-year-old can become recession-proof, i.e. receive multiple job offers in under a year despite being in a recession. His plan is fairly simple in essence; reject the old job search methods. Rather, offer “free work” to gain employers' trust and show your skills, with the understanding that while there is no immediate payoff, you can theoretically do non-paying projects of your choice for companies you like with the hope that after they have come to know and trust you they ...