One year ago today I was up very early in the morning in Sunnyvale, CA helping launch Yahoo!’s now 1 year old corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal. Yodel Anecdotal is praised for being a real blog into the life and culture of Yahoo! and not just a press release outlet. In addition, Yodel Anecdotal is able to get vital feedback from real users with comments as opposed to some other, comment-less corporate blogs.
If you haven’t checked out Yodel Anecdotal before, do me a favor and take a look now. It gives you a sense of Yahoo!’s efforts outside of the Internet world, such as their commitment to go carbon neutral. As for disclosure, I wasn’t put up to this post by my former employees, and did this all on my own.
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I can back him up on that — no prodding on our end, though we sure appreciate it! Thanks, Stammy.
And I hope y’all will take a crack at getting one of the limited edition anniversary T-shirts. It must be summer, because we still have some left! For details on how to snag one, go here.
Any luck with Yahoo lobbing you to come back as a full time employee. Since you were involved in a project that was so successful, you should get a great recommendation.
Woo! Free T Shirt!
Yahoo is going “carbon-neutral”… That means nothing more than that they are going to throw away millions to buy a bunch of carbon credits. This is a shell game and does nothing to “help” the environment. More reasons to *not* buy Yahoo stock. Morons.
Google is going carbon neutral too Stacen, what are your thoughts on that?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/carbon-neutrality-by-end-of-2007.html
Is that supposed to be proof that “going carbon neutral” is *not* a shell game? That Google is also jumping on this idiotic bandwagon is not surprising. The vast majority of their employees donate to Democrats and their parking lot is full of Priuses. Look, I have no problem with companies *actually doing something* to reduce waste and pollution. Apple is a good example. But this whole carbon credit thing is a total scam.
Heading over to take a look now :-)
Free T Shirt? Get it!
Good to read of their commitment to going carbon neutral, (sadly it is the practice of ‘carbon offsetting’, which is less good- but a start).
I think Yahoo! would hire Stammy without hesitation… except that he seems to think he needs to get some kind of college degree first…