By Joseph Gildred  Cloudwards.Net Whether you’re making movies, vlogging your travels or plotting YouTube stardom, video editing software is the stuff that dreams are made of. The advantages of editing software over the snip-and-tape days of linear film editing are legion, but when it comes to choosing among the dozens of tools available, well, Houston, we […]

By Robert Rorke NewYorkPost TV fans were left reeling after last Wednesday’s surprise cancellation of “The Big Bang Theory.” Now comes word that the cast was just as shocked. As reported by Deadline Hollywood, co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre dropped the news on a normal workday, with no advance warning. He began by summoning the cast to his […]

by Kevin Sheridan KevinSheridanllc.com While giving keynote speeches and leadership development workshops, I am often asked how to engage employees who work in the most repetitive or boring jobs. In this post, I want to highlight an awesome individual who provides the most telling answer to that question. The Tarmac Dancer, as he’s come to be known […]

By: Sarah Berger cnbc.com While Silicon Valley might seem like a mecca for young entrepreneurs, the city with the highest percentage of millennial business founders is actually nowhere near there — it’s Louisville, Kentucky, according to a new study from LendingTree. For its study, LendingTree, looked at anonymized data from 35,000 business owners in the 50 largest […]

BY: JOHN DIJULIUS  TheDiJuliusGroup.com Multiple studies have shown that the vast majority of an employee’s workday is unproductive due to distractions. 38% of the time an employee is actually productive for less than three hours of their eight-hour shift. The studies state that distractions at work have effects comparable to an employee losing a night’s sleep […]

By Lauren Salm writing for CareerBuilder Scrolling through your photos from this past weekend and laughing at the debauchery of your Hangover-esque charades? Ranting about your current job or co-workers because you think you’re just among “friends?” Think again. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates before […]

BY DEVIN GANNON  writing for 6sqft.com For over 100 years, water towers have been a seamless part of New York City’s skyline. So seamless, in fact, they often go unnoticed, usually overshadowed by their glassy supertall neighbors. While these wooden relics look like a thing of the past, the same type of water pumping structure continues […]

By: John Rampton writing for Entrepreneur.com For as long as there have been businesses in operation, leaders have been looking for ways to boost productivity in the workplace. In 1856, the British government conducted a report on office space layouts. The report said, “For the intellectual work, separate rooms are necessary so that a person who works with […]

By ITU News On World Environment Day, consider these facts on plastic pollution from theUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Each year, around 13 million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans. That’s the equivalent of a full garbage truck emptying into the ocean every minute. In the last decade, the world produced more plastic than in […]

Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history. Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th Century. But alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a part of the football history. Early history and the precursors […]