Gen X

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• Talking About My Generation

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 485
  Gen X has gotten a bad rap, says this author - and I agree. Pete Peterson More Than Zero Often derided as cynical and disengaged, Generation Xers have plenty of public spirit. 13 November 2009 Pity Generation X, the Americans born between 1965 and 1981 who have been ...
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• Why ‘Millennials’ Are Impulse Shoppers

  
  ibranz Branding Resource Blog — Authority: 114
  - Elaine Wong Women ages 20 to 30 represent a $54 billion marketing opportunity for packaged goods companies, but their needs and values are vastly different from the generation before them, a new report from Information Resources found. “Winning With Millennial Women Shoppers” outlines this growing consumer ...
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• Get the Message!

  
  The Raddon Report — Authority: 111
  As financial institutions have continued to employ technology to improve their efficiencies, they have found that customer adoption of new technology is rarely ubiquitous; therefore, it needs to be supplemented with target market specificity (segmentation) in order to better attract, serve and retain customers.
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• Unemployments gloomy future

  
  Nonsensible Shoes — Authority: 430
  Unemployment. It’s Bad, and it’s going to get worse. As a Gen-Xer (though barely, Im on the cusp of being a Boomer), Ive looked at the Baby Boom generation with some disdain for dropping the ball given to them by the greatest generation. They endorsed radical expansion of government. They spent and spent and ...
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• 4 Generations in One Work Force: Which Employee Benefits Satisfy Them All?

  
  ResumeBear Blog — Authority: 118
  For the first time in American history, employers face the challenge of providing benefits to a work force spanning four generations: Generations X and Y (Millenials), Baby Boomers, and the Mature — sometimes called the Silent — Generation. X-ers like to text, Boomers like to meet in person. Y-ers are used to ...
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• King or Coupland?

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  Which do I read first? Stephen King’s new novel, Under the Dom e? or Douglas Coupland ’s new novel, Generation A ? How to choose? How to choose? The King novel is over a 1,00o pages but I don’t really find that very daunting. In fact, I’m quiet undaunted by it, very much eager to read it. Perhaps ...
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• women are cannon fodder for political gain….again

  
  Crossing the Highway — Authority: 120
  with the abortion restriction in the new health-care bill comes some really fucked up shit . namely that women who miscarry could very well be prevented from getting a medically necessary D&E if they’re on the public option. even beyond the whole bodily autonomy for ALL women argument, this is dangerous and ...
  4 days ago

• More Brit GenX TV

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  I hadn’t realized before but hulu does that amazon thing where they suggest other shows you might like based on whatever show you happen to be watching. Same way amazon does with books, although I have to say I often find amazon’s suggestions suspect, at least for my taste. Anyhoo… one of the suggestions ...
  5 days ago

• Workplace Productivity: Network versus Meet

  
  Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog — Authority: 122
  Many people, from teens to their 40s, work and play virtually while being accessible to each other every minute of the day via cellphone, instant messaging and social networking websites. How Texting Savvy Are You?  (answers below) Subject: JM2C Message: BON NALOPKT John sees this as a ...
  5 days ago

• WEENIE-BLOGGERS THINK SESAME STREET IS EVIL

  
  Desdinova - Super Villain of the Ozarks — Authority: 117
  NPR has an article on Sesame Streets 40th anniversary on the air . What is not mentioned is that the Right-wing, Weenie-bloggers and Freepers want Sesame Street taken off the air. The reason: they made fun of Fox News. In a segment earlier this year, Oscar the Grouch launched the Grouch News Network. At the end of ...
  1 week ago

• “Millennials” - HR Nightmare, or Breath of Fresh Air?

  
  ResumeBear Blog — Authority: 118
  Despite the impact Baby Boomers have had on loosening up the workplace, the Millennial generation is forcing managers to think outside the box in order to integrate them into the workforce. This is the generation that grew up sheltered from competition and with the credo that ‘every child deserves an award’ - ...
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• [Smack!] Take that happy shiny people

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickel and Dimed,” is not by age a GenXer, but her new book, “Bright-Sided: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has underminded America,” will no doubt strike a chord with many a GenXer. It did for me anyway. As soon as I saw this book I knew I wanted to read ...
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• Title of the week

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 579
  It’s a book , and this may not be the final title, editorial types being, well, so all-fired editorial and all, but I think it’s just fine the way it is: Gen X-tinct: The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends That Raised a Generation , by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Brian Bellmont. Regular readers of my site may ...
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• GenX Brit TV

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  I have been obsessively watching and re-watching this BBC tv show entitled Green Wing, which I stumbled across on hulu.com. more about “ Brit GenX TV “, posted with vodpod It is an absurdest send up of hospital-based soap operas. Kind of like a British version of Scrubs, covering much of the same ground, ...
  1 week ago

• Time to Eat the Dog...

  
  Reflections — Authority: 99
  ...has, funnily, become a topic of debate . Following  this article in The Times of India, my friend Roshni wrote: An article titled “Your dog’s carbon footprint is twice that of SUV” (Oct 28), has me appalled not only at the literal implications of the suggestion that we should eat dogs, but also ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘New Jews’- How Generation X and Millennial (Gen Y) Jews Respond to their Faith

  
  APOLOGETICA — Authority: 99
  (Image by philippe leroyer via Flickr Here’s an article exploring the variety of responses of post-baby boomer Jews to their faith and culture . These young folks seem far less concerned with ‘anti-Semitism’ and less likely to support Israel–more likely to marry out of their faith and far more radical ...
  2 weeks ago

• plastic halloween masks [1967]

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 503
  uploaded by Kurt16 . Plastic halloween masks like these were among the hallmarks of the Generation X Halloween experience. I just love this picture of "Kurt, Kent & Jim." As a few readers pointed out, some of the Halloween masks from the 60s, 70s and 80s were pretty scary, and it was usually the ones that ...
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• bunny rabbit halloween costume [1973]

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 503
  Julie5pecanz In 1973, this litte Gen Xer went as a bunny for Halloween. I love her moms orange outfit, and, it appears we have another Brady-Bunchish house! Today wraps up my 31-days of Gen Xers as kids celebrating Halloween! Did you have a favorite photo or costume along the way? Thanks for ...
  2 weeks ago

• mcdonalds hamburglar costume [1970s halloween]

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 503
  photo from the small cat club via flickr This flickr account holder has posted some wonderful pictures of her and her brothers in homemade Halloween costumes. The set includes this photo of her in a Hamburglar costume. "Youre not a true child of the 70s unless you can recall the McDonaldland posse and its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mandatory Reading for Anyone Who Does Ministry With Millennial Catholics: Young Catholics Are Not TALIBAN CATHOLICS

  
  Googling God... — Authority: 427
  Amen, Amen I say unto you, John Allen of NCR. As usual, he gets the actual story accurately . Im taking partial credit for this article because this is EXACTLY what my book Googling God says and John served on the board at BustedHalo®. So I assume my influence and the appropriate back slapping has ensued. I ...
  2 weeks ago

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