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Here are five tips to best utilize Slack to organize your teams for optimal efficiency.

I just finished up my National Ski Patrol refresher over the weekend. This is the 12th year I’ll be volunteering as a patroller at Mount Snow Vermont. For those of you that don’t know what ski patrol is or what we do, you can think of it as an EMT on skis or in my case a snowboard that is primarily responsible for the immediate …

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. Starting a company is a daunting task and taking the first step sometimes seems impossible. I’ve encountered a number of people with the dilemma of “I know what I want to do but I don’t know how to start.” And rightfully so. Taking an abstract idea from thought to fruition is one of the hardest things to do. It’s why the failure …

Most of my friends are either in the work world or are in the process of finishing up some form of school and the following question has come up numerous times – What is LinkedIn? I’m not saying I know what LinkedIn is, what their vision is, what their roadmap looks like, or what they want to be when they grow up but I do know how …

Image via CrunchBase People have recently asked me: “How can I use Twitter to help my organization? I know I need to be on there, but how do I use it? What do I do?” Answer (3-parts): Define your organization’s objective Establish your voice Build an audience DEFINE YOUR ORGANIZATION’S OBJECTIVE: Before you do anything, you first need to define what it is exactly you …

Image by K. Todd Storch via Flickr Forget pricey satellite radio, the crappy commercial filled FM radio, massive amounts of CDs, or your stale and unupdated iPod… Here is how you can get free on demand music in your car: Take out your phone and download the mobile version of Pandora or Slacker radio (they are both free) Buy a cassette adapter for CDs or …

Image via CrunchBase Lately, people have been asking me about websites and internet businesses in general. Is their internet idea a good one? Is it realistic? How to build it? Who to involve? But in all of these conversations I’ve been asked every single time “How could I build my own website?” Today, you don’t have to be a computer expert, graphic artist or an …