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Danielle Klein-Williams

Monday, February 25, 2013

Job title and company: Owner and lead photographer, Dani Fine Photography, Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main St., Northampton Age: 33 Your duties: Photographing, managing business, marketing, advertising, organizing and shooting styled photos. How did you land your job? I started my own business right after graduating from Hallmark Institute of Photography and it’s been growing ever since. Early on, however, I paid my dues working non-photography positions and later apprenticing with a studio. Those experiences are invaluable and taught me a lot. What’s most challenging about your work? The most challenging part would be my dedication to always improving and achieving more with each and every … 0

Michael Archbald

Monday, February 25, 2013

Job title and company: I have been the owner/administrator of Collective Home Care Inc., which is based in South Deerfield, since 2004. Age: 55 Your duties: To simultaneously be aware of the fires that crop up every day and provide our team with what they need to put those fires out. How did … 0

Kelley Bollen

Monday, February 25, 2013

Job title and company: Owner of Animal Alliances LLC, 137-E Damon Road, Northampton Age: 50 Your duties: I consult with pet owners experiencing behavior problems with their pets and offer dog training classes at my Damon Road facility. How did you land your job? Following graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, I … 0

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Job loss in mid-40s leads to fulfilling career change for Thom Burden

Sunday, February 10, 2013

In 2008, Thom Burden lost his job as operations director at the Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turners Fall. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to be unemployed, to have no idea what’s going to happen to … 0

Job hunting harder, more stressful when employer’s human decency is lacking

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Job hunting is stressful — more stressful than it needs to be when some simple human decency is missing. First, though, a couple of reminders. As a job hunter, keep telling yourself that your timetable isn’t the same as employers’ timetables. And remember that employers care about what … 0

How to connect with employees: Sincerity and consistency are key

Sunday, February 10, 2013

When I see a companywide email from the boss, I, like most employees, assume it’s an announcement of a promotion - me to senior vice president of awesomeness. If not that, then perhaps a salacious news release detailing how a co-worker I dislike has been let go over … 0

PeoplesBank Senior Vice President of Human Resources Janice Mazzallo is shown in the bank's Holyoke headquarters. KEVIN GUTTING

PeoplesBank culture engages employees and community

Sunday, February 10, 2013

HOLYOKE — Five years ago, PeoplesBank began developing a strategic plan that included creating a “high-performance culture” focusing on employee development, life-work balance and community service. At the time, the largest community bank in western Massachusetts was a … 0

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 5, 2008, file photo. a Costco shopper purchases TurboTax at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using technology to do tasks independently. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Millions of middle-class jobs lost to recession, technology in developed countries worldwide

Sunday, February 10, 2013

NEW YORK — Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it … 0

Navy veteran George Murphy of Holyoke, who turns 74 next month, uses a Health Buddy digital telemonitoring unit daily to communicate his vital signs to his health care team at the VA Hospital in Leeds. KEVIN GUTTING

Health-care providers, patients are communicating online

Sunday, February 10, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — It’s midday on a Tuesday and a patient wants to check in with her doctor at the Valley Medical Group’s health center in Florence. Instead of picking up the phone, she uses her iPad to log … 0

Army veteran Mark Ellis of Springfield uses My Healthevet to track his medications. KEVIN GUTTING

VA Healthcare System a leader in wireless medicine

Sunday, February 10, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — The VA Healthcare System went digital back in the 1980s, two decades before many private health providers began using electronic medical records. As a result, VA administrators say, the system has been an early laboratory for … 0

Karen Kusekoski, left, Samantha Pierce, Jacklyn Sniadach and Daniel English of the Environmental Services department at Cooley Dickinson Hospital are entertained by English's children Clayton, 7, and Charlotte English, 4, of Holyoke during the second birthday party for "Xenox," the hospital's UV light-blasting, germ-zapping robot. The party was held on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 and celebrated the 10 saved lives that have occurred since the robot began cleaning the hospital. SARAH CROSBY

Robots complement the work of humans at Cooley Dickinson

Sunday, February 10, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — In the 1940s, science fiction writer and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov created the “Three Laws of Robotics,” the first of which states that a robot cannot injure a person nor allow one to come to … 0

Firebaugh is a rural farming community with a population of about 7,000 people. Unemployment nears forty percent and most live on very little. (Bethany Mollenkof/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Longtime physicians offer more than medical care in rural areas

Sunday, February 10, 2013

FIREBAUGH, Calif. — On a morning in early January, the air is cold and the main street of Firebaugh, Calif., is nearly empty. But the Sablan Medical Clinic is quickly filling up with people eager to see the … 0

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‘Economic root canal’ — personal bankruptcy primer

Sunday, February 3, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — Personal bankruptcy filings continued to decline statewide last year after peaking in 2010, a trend some say signals an improved economy. Other bankruptcy experts paint a more cautious picture and say many Valley residents face significant … 0

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