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Photo credit getty LinkedIn is a powerful tool for building your personal brand, delivering a powerful digital first impression and building fruitful relationships. It has also become a breeding ground for unscrupulous and annoying sales people who have come to consider the almost billion LinkedIn members as a fully stocked pond of fish, ready to be reeled in. For people who seek to use LinkedIn for authentic networking, The Exploiters have cast a sleazy shadow over the entire platform with their unwanted and often dishonest sales tactics. Many members respond to this by becoming very closed networkers—allowing in only those people they know well. But that will work against you. It’s often valuable to connect with people you don’t know. A lot has been written about the power of weak ties and the value of a truly diverse network, so being a little promiscuous on LinkedIn can be valuable to your career. The challenge is that it opens you up to business developers who are eager to catch you in their net. To return LinkedIn to the professional e-networking platform that you know and love, there are settings you can change and behaviors you can adopt that will minimize the…

A proposed ordinance would require the city to upgrade pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure whenever a road is repaved. An ordinance proposed by Chicago alderperson Matt Martin would require the Chicago Department of Transportation to make pedestrian, bike, and/or public transit upgrades to roads anytime a street is repaved. As Courtney Cobbs reports in Streetsblog Chicago, “The goal of the legislation is to ensure that every time the Chicago Department of Transportation repaves a street, rather than simply restriping it the same car-centric way as before, it prioritizes the needs of people walking, biking, and riding transit.” According to a statement from Martin, “This ordinance calls on CDOT to take advantage of its Arterial Resurfacing projects with the regular addition of ambitious infrastructure including protected bike lanes, pedestrian refuge islands, bus bulbs, and raised crosswalks. It will ensure that CDOT prioritizes alternatives to cars.” Cobb notes that “documentation on any exemption must be made publicly available and shared with the City Council’s Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety.” A similar ordinance in Cambridge, Massachusetts “requires the city to provide protected or raised bike lanes on all streets that are included in its bike master plan except in “rare” circumstances, which…

New Jersey's State Parks, Forests & Historic Sites The New Jersey State Park Service administers over 452,000 acres of land comprising parks, forests, historic sites and other recreation areas actively working to manage and promote thriving natural and historic resources. We strive to provide our visitors with a variety of recreational opportunities including hiking, biking, camping, swimming, boating and picnicking. Our historic sites offer the visitor the opportunity to journey back through time to experience life of a foregone era. No matter what your interest is, there is something for everyone! We invite you to take advantage of all our recreational, natural and historical resources and Open your Doorway to Adventure!

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LinkedIn may be the world's largest networking site (to date there are 860 million members!) but it's come a long way since the days of simply connecting professionals with one another. Today, LinkedIn has the power to help business owners -- local and global -- to market their brands to engaged audiences of fellow founders, industry influencers, decision makers, potential clients, and future team members.As the co-founder of a content marketing agency, I find that it's essential to have a very active presence on LinkedIn. That means following and engaging with thought leaders, interacting with content from my network, and filling my own feed with helpful, relevant updates. Whether you're looking to simply grow brand awareness or want to turn new connections into promising leads, here are six ways to get started with LinkedIn marketing. 1. Choose between a profile or a page.First things first: Should you market your brand on a LinkedIn personal profile or a business page?To put it simply, a profile is for an individual while a page is for a business. Though a business page may be necessary for general brand awareness, your personal profile is essential for building your own credibility within the industry through thought leadership, which in turn positively impacts…

Cockburn was on one of his regular jaunts through LinkedIn this week, on the lookout for more gainful employment than the Speccie currently offers him. During his perusal, one word kept catching his eye on the profiles of other users: “Rescinded.” Prospective employees are deciding to denote when a company had made them a job offer — and then changed their mind after a change in corporate hiring plans. The cryptocurrency wallet company Coinbase appears to be one of the biggest offenders. Ashutosh, a software engineer, posted the following: After considering several factors, I had chosen to join Coinbase over pursuing a PhD. Unfortunately, I just got an email today saying my offer had been rescinded (as well as those of many other people) due to a massive hiring plan change by Coinbase… After having planned so much of the next stage of my life, seeing it fall apart so quickly was heartbreaking. Other jobseekers are taking a more optimistic outlook, such as Xinyi, another software engineer whose offer was rescinded: This situation is undoubtedly unfortunate. I cannot start the journey at Coinbase as I’ve planned since this January. However, I cannot control the market or others’ decisions, but I…

Godolphin's Irish homebred Nations Pride will look to continue a tremendous run of form in North America for trainer Charlie Appleby when he takes on an international field of 13 Saturday in the $1-million Caesars Belmont Derby Invitational at Belmont Park. The Belmont Derby a 10-furlong inner turf test for sophomores. Nations Pride exits an eighth-place finish in the Cazoo Epsom Derby (G1) June 4 which came five weeks after a seven-length romp over subsequent Derby runner-up Hoo Ya Mal in the 10-furlong listed Newmarket Stakes. Nations Pride had a four-race win streak snapped at Epsom, with his three previous wins all coming on flat courses at 10 furlongs, including a 3 1/4-length score in the Jumeirah Derby at Meydan in Dubai. The son of Teofilo is a grandson of Group 1-winner and 2006 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) fifth Satwa Queen, a 10-furlong specialist. Appleby said Nations Pride should appreciate firmer footing as he cuts back in distance. “He just didn't stay in the English Derby. It's as simple as that and the ground would have been a question,” Appleby said. “The quicker the ground, the better for him and he's proven that already at Meydan's quick,…

It's been a wet summer so far in Calgary and the surrounding areas, with lots of rain and cooler temperatures.  Those two things are putting a damper on business for places like Calgary restaurant Porch, which relies on its patio to bring in patrons during the summer.  “It is unfortunate," Porch bartender Yianni Kounougeris said. "We have been a little bit slower now because of this." The patio isn’t the restaurant’s only outdoor feature. It also has a roof over half of its dining space and part of the bar that can fully open, giving customers a chance to soak in the summer weather.  "It really does provide that great patio atmosphere … almost to provide you with an escape, as if you were on vacation, like in Mexico or Hawaii," Kounougeris said.  However, that patio stays closed when it rains. "Hopefully later in July, come Stampede, we’ll have nicer weather have somewhat of a summer," Kounougeris said.  Yianni Kounougeris is a bartender at Calgary restaurant Porch. Over at Inglewood Golf and Curling Club, the wet weather is keeping people from hitting the links.  "We are down in rounds about 18 per cent compared to last year at this time,"…

The CAT ferry, which sails between Yarmouth, N.S., and Bar Harbour, Maine, has sold more than 20,000 tickets so far this year, up from the 15,100 tickets sold as of June 7. According to Bay Ferries Limited, the company that operates the CAT ferry, ticket sales remain in line with pre-pandemic numbers at this point in the sailing season. The ferry is expected to welcome 65 per cent of their total passengers for the season during the months of July and August. Bay Ferries estimates there will be between 39,000 and 46,000 total passengers over the course of the 2022 season. However, that number could be impacted by high fuel prices and record inflation rates as well as further COVID-19 variants and international vaccine requirements. As of June 30, the ferry has completed 26 rounds trips, welcoming a total of 5,569 passengers and 2,468 vehicles. Two additional trips were cancelled due to weather-related concerns. The ferry began daily crossings on June 24, after running on a schedule of four days per-week. Daily crossings will continue until the season’s final sail on Oct. 10. 2022 marks the first year the ferry has operated since 2018, due to the absence of a…

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