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What Were You Caught Reading This Month?
Stop right there. What are you reading right now? And no, I don’t mean this blog. Is it a captivating book, an enthralling article or maybe new book of poetry? While some of us have dustier “to be read” piles than others, the HMA-ers are always reading something new and interesting. Since May is Get [...]
Reclaim Your Inbox and Improve Productivity
Did you know the average time it takes to respond to an email is greater than the time it took to create the actual email? Think about it. You skim your inbox, decide on an email to open, open the email, read the email, decide how to respond to the email, write a response to [...]
Tagged Email apps, Email extensions, Email productivity, Tips, Tools
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A Very HMA Holiday: Family and the Workplace
They’re heeeeeeeeeeere…The holidays, that is! At HMA, we take our holidays very seriously. After all, they remind us how fortunate we are to have an abundance of good people in our lives. Although most people immediately associate holiday season with family season, perhaps not as many include their “work families” in that equation. Here at Howard [...]
Tagged family, HMA, holidays, workplace family
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HMA Bookshelf: Our Favorite School Books
Required reading was probably something you either loved or loved to hate when you were in school. Every once in a while, an assigned school book turns into an all-time favorite. We decided to share some of our assigned books that became some of our most loved books. Read on to see which required school [...]
Workplace Culture: The Google Effect
A random talent of mine is a gift for metaphor. When I am given two unlike objects or ideas, I love finding a way to connect them based on concepts I already know and use (I think this is technically called “scaffolding” by any of you psych experts out there!). Although I enjoy the process of [...]
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Tagged Apple, cultural fit, culture, Culture 2.0, Google, office culture
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Media, Mentors & Friends
This past week, I taught the newest HMA-ers the fine art of media planning. My father taught me this skill many years ago, and I like to think I refined the HMA process to be a bit better. I taught Amanda how to plan media eight long years ago, and already, she has further improved the [...]
Tagged Digital media, media, Media planning
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Thinking of Our Friend
My phone buzzed as I was getting ready to pull out of my driveway. I don’t know why, but I parked and looked as I somehow instinctively knew it was important. It was only one line before the tears were streaming down my face. I don’t write with the intention of sharing sadness, but rather [...]
Tagged inspiration, media
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Finding Value in the Broken
It put up a merciless fight, but in the end my iPhone was never much of a match for an accident-prone klutz. While lamenting over my loss and trying to figure out how I was going to wake up on time without an alarm, a thought came to me. Does something still have value when [...]
Tagged client projects, iPhone
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How to Keep Your Skills Fresh and Grow
Everyone has their own way of learning, trying new things or taking on a new adventure. Let’s call it a “Chapter of Growth.” This chapter is defined on how you approach everything in life. I love to read so I look at everything as being a new chapter. I have tons of chapters, or mini [...]
Top 8 Ways to Boost Creativity
There are so many resources out there today and to just to pick a few is a challenge. For me to stay in the groove of things, I find myself surfing the web and reading others’ posts on the weekends or after hours. I try to do the following things on a regular basis to help me maintain [...]
Tagged Brainstorm, Creativity, Instagram
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