Author: Joanna Pineda

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Last week, I had the pleasure of being a speaker at the Benefits Communications Conference of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Funds. During the closing session, one of the […]

My GPS Is Making Me Stupid!
Posted on July 14, 2010
I had an early meeting in Hyattsville this morning.  I was armed with my Garmin GPS and printed directions from Google Maps -- I still got lost. I had to call my husband for extra navigational assistance.  He was incredulous on the phone: "Don't you have Jane [...]
Rush Hour from ThinkFun
Posted on July 1, 2010
Loved this spatial puzzle game, love the iPad app even more. Great for exercising your brain.
How We Doubled Our Facebook Fans and Raised Money for the Gulf Recovery Effort
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10 days ago, the Matrix Group Facebook fan page had 280 fans.  As of tonight, we have 576 fans, more than double our starting number. How did we do it?  We launched a campaign and created an incentive for people to "Like" us.

The Background

Matrix Group has had a Facebook fan page for a couple of years now and we had [...]
What’s So Fun About FourSquare?
Posted on June 24, 2010
In my quest to try out new social networks, I signed up for FourSquare last year.  I didn't start using the service until a couple of months ago, when I get my new Palm Pre and I felt ready to dive into another social network. FourSquare is a [...]
Moving the Matrix Group Underground to the Foreground
Posted on June 17, 2010
With all the hiring we're doing right now, my team decided that we better revisit all of our orientation guides. Orientations work like this at Matrix Group:  we ask staff members from all teams to help with the orientation; we give them an outline and [...]