Utrecht-based Energize is looking to hire an account manager and a strategic planner, and has designed an application form that looks exactly like a page on Twitter, including an empty text field. Candidates enter a short message—their “twillicitatie”, or twapplication—describing why they’re the person for the job, plus their email address and Twitter username. Uploading a resume is optional. For privacy reasons, Energize won’t publicly tweet the applicant’s message.

Utrecht-based Energize is looking to hire an account manager and a strategic planner, and has designed an application form that looks exactly like a page on Twitter, including an empty text field. Candidates enter a short message—their “twillicitatie”, or twapplication—describing why they’re the person for the job, plus their email address and Twitter username. Uploading a resume is optional. For privacy reasons, Energize won’t publicly tweet the applicant’s message.

Futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal argues that over the next decade, games will become a powerful interface for managing our real work, organizing society, and optimizing our real lives. Increasingly, she predicts, game developers will be charged with the task of making people happier, smarter, friendlier, greener, and healthier — and hundreds of millions of new gamers will be playing together at home, at school, at work, and everywhere in between. The result? Game design and development expertise will become a sought-after talent in virtually every industry and field, from Fortune 500 companies to top government agencies.

Futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal argues that over the next decade, games will become a powerful interface for managing our real work, organizing society, and optimizing our real lives. Increasingly, she predicts, game developers will be charged with the task of making people happier, smarter, friendlier, greener, and healthier — and hundreds of millions of new gamers will be playing together at home, at school, at work, and everywhere in between. The result? Game design and development expertise will become a sought-after talent in virtually every industry and field, from Fortune 500 companies to top government agencies.

Being in a cluster means network friends actually know each other as opposed to having many friends who do not know each other. If the person’s friends know each other the local network is denser; a so-called cluster is formed.

Being in a cluster means network friends actually know each other as opposed to having many friends who do not know each other. If the person’s friends know each other the local network is denser; a so-called cluster is formed.

Brain Twit

A biomedical engineering doctoral student, Wilson is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally. Among those are people who have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis {ALS}, brain-stem stroke or high spinal cord injury.

Brand Mingling

… Do your brands go with the flow - do you as Media Buyer{s}, or Brand Relations learn about your target audience… do you take time to bother learning about them and employing analysis’ the same as you would your competitors’ years before yours’ became a successful, and major brand today surely fading thanks to the recent hiccup?

Do you mingle, listen, talk, listen some more, adjust, re-adjust, adjust. Are you as engaged as you should be aware how you’re doing?

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