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Don’t Be A Student, Part II: You Have Skills

By on April 30, 2011 in Empower

(Sequel to Don’t Be A Student, Part I: Your Time Is Valuable.) Now that you’ve decided you don’t want to be broke or exploited as student/slave labor, the next issue should be obvious, “How do I actually get paid?” The simple answer is to exchange something you have of value for cash. Not very helpful, though, is [...]

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Don’t Be A Student, Part I: Your Time Is Valuable

By on February 9, 2011 in Empower

To all college students out there: How many hours do you work per week? What baskets does your work fall under? What is your target hourly wage per basket? What is your real hourly wage? If you can’t answer these questions, then I have a follow-up: How many unpaid internships have you taken since graduating [...]

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The Worthy Web – Jan 14, 2011

By on January 14, 2011 in Empower

Asitchanges.com took a hiatus from our weekly publishing schedule. As a few projects ramped up, we were stretched thin and had to dedicate our resources to deliver what we had promised to our clients. Nevertheless, we have caught up. These are the links from last week. Coming in the next day will be the links [...]

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The Worthy Web – Jan 7, 2011

By on January 7, 2011 in Empower

As the first week of the year came and went, I was fortunate to have made a few strides in my own business. One of the biggest revelations was that I needed to take this semester off from college in order to make some of my ideas happen. There were many factors that went into [...]

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The Worthy Web – Dec 31 2010

By on December 30, 2010 in Empower

Happy New Year! Certain people around the other side of the globe have already experienced 2011. For me, the New Year started last week. I tend to take every day as an adventure so I started working on my “New Years Resolutions” last week. I also have a laminated card with 50 things I want [...]

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The Worthy Web – Dec 24, 2010

By on December 24, 2010 in Empower

We have a Christmas gift for you. One of the original visions of the site was to truly “aggregate” business news from around the world. Today we reached one step closer. AsItChanges is approaching the problem of delivering business news & education from two diametrically opposing perspectives of the hyper-local and the global. The original [...]

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The Worthy Web – Dec 17, 2010

By on December 17, 2010 in Empower

We created AsItChanges to create a resource to inspire, educate, and empower ourselves and others in business. From a person to person perspective, we understand what is valuable to us in and we show this value by sharing websites, books, articles with our business associates all of the time using Email, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Here are some of the [...]

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Entrepreneurship Policy Forum : Entrepreneurship in Uruguay

By on December 5, 2010 in Empower

Uruguay is one of the best places to start a business, or at least that’s what the people say. In Uruguay’s Entrepreneurship Fasttracking, Entrepreneurship.org’s Jonathan Ortmans discusses the up and coming economy. “Uruguay: the entrepreneurs of tomorrow will be your best allies to fight the considerable emigration among professionals and boost growth not just in [...]

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Five Future Businesses, Bureau of Labor Statistics

By on September 12, 2010 in Empower

The Street is a great resource to know what is going on in the financial world of business. As a small business owner or operator, you may not be directly affected by market conditions however it is healthy to be in the know. A recent article that The Street publishes gives a quick synopsis of [...]

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The First Strategy for Good

By on September 5, 2010 in Empower

“Strategy for Good” was started by four independent non-profit development and internet strategy professionals who want to make the world a better place with the internet. They brainstormed and created a seminar series which would help non profits, community members, and students understand how to use business strategy and technology to do good for their [...]

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