About Author: Anne Hillman

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Description: Anne Hillman, formally known as a Senior Account Executive, is equal parts advisor, drummer, mom and movie-theme-song-karaoke champion. Willing to help clients at the drop of an Eagles' hat, Anne, who's been with Alstin for 12 years and sounds exactly like Jodie Foster, is over-the-top dedicated.

Posts by Anne Hillman

This Week in Privacy: Instagram TOS Changes – “There is no such thing as a free lunch”

Posted on December 19, 2012 | No Comments
While we do not know exactly who to attribute this quote to and only a rough time period when it was coined in possibly the 30′s or 40′s, it still...
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“Please Deposit 25 Cents” and other Post-Hurricane Survival Tips

Posted on November 13, 2012 | No Comments
“If you would like to make a call, please deposit twenty-five cents” OK, who remembers this classic line? If you said “pay phone operator” you would be correct. As it...
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Olympic Fever Continues! Reflecting on Lack of Paralympics 2012

Posted on September 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
You would never know by watching the TV box but the 2012 Paralympics wrapped up in London on September 9th with China topping the medal board and the United States...
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What’s Old is New and Google: “MADE IN THE U.S.A.”

Posted on June 28, 2012 | No Comments
While Google made a big splash at their recent software developers conference with the demo of “Google Glass”, the new “smart” eyeglasses created to deliver information without having to scramble...
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Privacy Parts: The Right to be Forgotten: Forgiveness or Censorship?

Posted on March 22, 2012 | No Comments
So are you a deletionist or preservationist when it comes to your online history? A highlight of this years South By Southwest Interactive Conference attempted to address the controversial issue of...
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Help Wanted: Great Careers for Good Credit Scores! Huh?

Posted on October 13, 2011 | No Comments
Having a good credit score is not just for securing loans and mortgages anymore. Now, your credit score could have a direct impact on whether or not you land that...
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LinkedIn IPO: The Beginning of the Great Social Media Bubble?

Posted on May 23, 2011 | No Comments
It’s official, LinkedIn (NYSE ticker: LNKD) is the first of the major social media players to jump into the stock market with their Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Thursday, 5/19....
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Behavioral Economics Spotlight: Can Twitter Predict the Stock Market?

Posted on March 24, 2011 | No Comments
An Indiana University – Bloomington research paper “Twitter mood predicts the stock market” authored by Johan Bollen and Huina Mao answer a resounding yes, and Derwent Capital Markets, a London...
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Jobs 2011: Reason for Optimism?

Posted on February 3, 2011 | No Comments
Rising demand! Expanding profit margins! Increased expectations for economic growth! Brighter employment outlook! Increased capital spending! Is this really happening? And the survey says….Yes! Well, at least according to the...
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My Kind of Flash Mob!

Posted on November 16, 2010 | No Comments
Many people have seen and heard about the flurry of violent flash mobs of unruly teenagers congregating in large groups in very public areas then terrorizing innocent people and retail...
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Jobless Discrimination: Sorry, you’re just too unemployed for employment?

Posted on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot lately about jobless discrimination, a disturbing new trend in recruiting where employers are reluctant to hire unemployed workers thinking the best candidates are...
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This Week in Philanthropy: An Incentive to Hire

Posted on September 13, 2010 | No Comments
Gene Epstein, a Newtown, PA area philanthropist and former small business owner, wants to give the economy a boost and has come up with a simple plan to increase local...
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PIIGS and the Euro, Debt Shufflin’ Blues

Posted on July 26, 2010 | No Comments
I wish the title of this post was really my band name and 1st album title but alas it’s not. Debt, debt, and more debt. We are in a serious...
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Ayude a Deseó: Los cocineros en Cheyenne, Wyoming

Posted on June 28, 2010 | No Comments
Aye Caramba! When Denny’s Restaurants exhausted the Cheyenne, WY market in a search for Cooks via internet postings and local print ads, we needed to think outside the box and...
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DIY Recruiting Collateral Needs Awesome Creative!

Posted on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
The economy is in pretty bad shape still, duh. And recruiting budgets are typically the last to be restored as we crawl back, inch by inch, from the recent recession....
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It’s National Nurses Week!

Posted on May 3, 2010 | No Comments
Here at Alstin, we know when May is coming with all it’s beautiful flowers simply by the high volume of requests by healthcare clients to design eye-catching, inspirational messages of...
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Changes on the playing field.

Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
In August 2009, I wrote briefly about the corny sounding “mancession” and the role of women in fixing the economy. I revisit this topic based on two recent articles from the...
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Your Daily Facebook Folly: U R Fired! C U L8TR!

Posted on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment
Not sure what is more pathetic here – the fact that the 16 year old employee was fired for losing a “tenner” she was given to run a biscuit fetching...
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This Week in Graffiti

Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
By the looks of this blog, you might think we over here at Alstin eat, breathe and sleep all that is recruitment and retention. Every so often we’ll stray from...
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GDP, Debt, Consumption, Recovery and Debbie Downer.

Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
GDP – Fourth Quarter 2009 (Second Estimate) “Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased...
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Privacy Controls are Integral to Facebook. Oh Wait, that was so two years ago

Posted on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Just two short years ago Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to talk about FB’s privacy policies and controls – controls Zuckerberg describes as integral to...
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Score One For Manufacturing.

Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
After a miserable, gut wrenching, stress-filled year courtesy of the 2009 economy and job market, nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than a positive story coming out of...
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Blogging Blogs…The 25 MVB’s (Most Valuable Blogs $$) in America

Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
I came across an interesting post while on The Urethane Blog (what can I say, I like to keep up on the Urethane industry) to an analysis done by 24/7...
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Farewell E-mail. Adieu, Adios, Sayonara, Peace Out. All Hail the New Age of Communications!

Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
The advent of e-mail drastically changed how business was done just a little over a decade ago. The rules of the game changed – the phones stopped ringing, the faxes...
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The First Sign of the Apocalypse: The Doughnut Bacon Cheeseburger

Posted on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
Here at Alstin we are always looking for great places and delicious things to eat. If we were based in St. Louis, rest assured this would be the water cooler...
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Facebook, FriendFeed, Social Aggregation, and You.

Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
Facebook recently purchased FriendFeed - a little known (but not for long) social media platform that can aggregate all of your social media activities - for $47.5 million. And with...
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Multi-Tasking, Brochure Style

Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
When Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) wanted to develop brochures to attract technical and trade school students into entering their Internship & Apprenticeship Programs as well as the Skilled Trades...
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The “Mancession” and the Role of Women in Fixing the Economy

Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
There is no doubt this recession has adversely affected men more than women. 80% of job losses in the last two years were among men. With the loss in manufacturing...
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The Perfect Commute

Posted on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the best aspects of my job is getting there. When there is no rain or snow, I walk or ride my mother’s sweet 1974 Schwinn suburban. I always...
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Furloughed Employees – Are They Really Ever Off?

Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
I came across this article the other day in the NY Times titled “On a Furlough, but Never Leaving the Cubicle” that lays out a lot of the frustration many workers...
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LinkedOut

Posted on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
What am I missing? Am I an old codger-in-training? I’m not Facebooking, Twittering or Linking In. It’s not that I’m against them as a statement of non-conformity, I just don’t...
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Odd Jobbers

Posted on May 18, 2009 | No Comments
The job market is tough, no need to remind a job seeker of that fact. Check out some of these unique, non-traditional ways the unemployed are getting themselves noticed and...
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Stimulus Job Watch

Posted on May 4, 2009 | No Comments
How will the passage of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 affect the job market now and in the future? Billions in appropriations for job preservation and creation,...
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