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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: We don’t like exclamation points, ‘impact’ as a verb

Our new best friends at Fast Company wrote about the overuse of exclamation points, and they aren’t kidding!!!!!!! We have discussed this in our newsroom!!!! Some of you news release writers love exclamation points to an unnerving …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Young people are going to save us all from office life

Can younger generations of workers really shape office hours for the rest of the workforce? It seems one of the most visible hurdles keeping older employees from receiving the same flexibility younger workers demand is …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Five cities: Living on $50K a year

The same salaries, but different cities and different lifestyles. The Wall Street Journal interviewed five millennials in different U.S. cities making the average annual salary of recent graduates in entry-level positions – approximately $50,000 – about how …

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NOTEBOOK: P.E.O. brings 6,000 to Des Moines today

The Des Moines-based international women’s education organization P.E.O. opens a three-day conference at the Iowa Events Center today to honor its 150th anniversary with 6,000 members and spouses visiting the capital city.

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NOTEBOOK: Rollenhagen: It’s never just business

Erin Rollenhagen, founder and CEO of Entrepreneurial Technologies, has written a book, “Soul Uprising,” that includes the central message “It’s never just business.” 

As Rollenhagen, a proud graduate of Ames High School and the University …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Workers leaving big cities for smaller ones, taking jobs with them

I was talking with Jackie Johansen, principal of Shattered Glass Development, about coworking space. She mentioned that it’s not just startups or one-person shops using the space but that there were corporate users as well. …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Sept. 13 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the “Month Date” issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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NOTEBOOK: Exclusive: Take a tour of new Burt Boys and Girls Club

The Gregory & Suzie Glazer Burt Boys and Girls Club opened this week at Drake University with close to 150 kids a day playing games, learning in computer labs, having snacks and meals, and preparing …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: ‘We blew it’: Forbes named 99 men and only one woman on its list of ‘most innovative leaders’

Editorial leadership at Forbes is receiving an enormous amount of heat after publishing its list of the top 100 CEOs, reports the Washington Post. The cause: The list contained one sole woman, Ross Stores CEO Barbara …

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NOTEBOOK: From the archives: The sculpture park at 10

The John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park turns 10 this September. Ten years ago a certain brand-new Business Record reporter (cough, cough) filed what I must say is quite a fine piece of reporting about …