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What Nonprofits and Libraries Can Learn from Zappos Culture

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It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually talking about one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. It’s the former City Hall of Las Vegas, which makes the outside of Zappos deceptively rigid, official, and, well, civic.

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What Nonprofits and Libraries Can Learn from Zappos Culture

Tech Soup

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually describing one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. It’s the former City Hall of Las Vegas, which makes the outside of Zappos deceptively rigid, official, and, well, civic.

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Why I Use Twitter

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Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Yesterday, I spoke at a conference in Las Vegas. garmstrong65: Sounds crazy, but it works. Big-name tech pundits amass tens of thousands of followers. Normal people may have five or six. It’s too entertaining for me to keep to myself.

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