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Beyond.com Reduces 20 Tons of Carbon Emissions From Environment

We are excited to announce that Beyond.com currently ranks as the #5 company on CarbonRally.com and has reduced more than 20 tons of CO2 from the environment to date!!!  Our team members have worked hard over the last year, participating in 781 challenges to reach this milestone achievement. 

In an effort to go green, Beyond.com formed a relationship with CarbonRally.com a little over a year ago to reduce our carbon footprint by implementing green initiatives in the workplace.  CarbonRally.com makes “going green” fun by tracking the collective impact that each team has made on the environment, giving other teams the opportunity to be competitive against one another….all for a good cause. 
 
Our corporate team, “Beyond Green” currently consists of 27 members who participate in daily challenges, which are small, positive actions that save energy and reduce carbon emissions over time.  Some of the challenges include, carpooling, eliminating bottled water, avoiding drive through restaurants, airing up your tires, replacing light bulbs and much more.

If you are looking for an easy, measureable way to contribute to the environment, do you part by joining CarbonRally.com today! 

Beyond.com Teams Up With Viigo To Provide Job Search Content To Professionals On-The-Go

Beyond.com, Inc., the world’s largest network of niche career communities, and Viigo, an award-winning developer of a popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, have teamed up to provide job search capabilities and career content to users of BlackBerry® and Windows Mobile devices via Viigo’s popular mobile application.

What is Twitter and Should I Tweet?

In March 2009, Information Week reported a 131% increase in the number of people who visited Twitter over the last month.  As I read this statistic, I began to wonder what is Twitter and why do people love it so much?  The Twitter website self-describes itself as a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?  Other people refer to Twitter as a micro-blogging service.

Although I do not fully understand either description of this site, I do know that it is growing by leaps and bounds.  After reading several blogs and trying to compare Twitter to something I do understand, I believe that Twitter is:

Twitter is basically a service that allows you to update your status with short messages, of up to 140 characters, just like a SMS text message.  Twitter allows you to socialize your content with others through their following mechanism.  If you update your status, then people who are “following” you are immediately notified of it.

If You Won The Lottery What Would You Do?

So you’ve won the lottery…now what?  So many questions to answer and so many things you can do with your winnings—vacation, new car, big screen TV?  Do you tell people? 

And the big question is…do you continue working?

Well according to a survey of 2,800 professionals conducted by Beyond.com, 84 percent said that they would remain a wage earner, which is a pretty impressive for just hitting the jackpot.  It seems more likely that the majority of lottery winners would rather quit their jobs to pursue their dreams or travel, rather than remain in the working world. 

Of those who said they would continue working, 41.1 percent expressed an interest in starting their own business, 17.9 percent said they would remain at their current place of employment and 25.6 percent said they would work part-time.