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What Does Your Social Media Footprint Tell Employers? The Facebook Test

November 27, 2009 By 21 Comments

This week I asked Chris Breikss of 6S Marketing to talk to my class about what he looks for in potential employees (and ostensibly interns as well). Beyond the standard resume and cover letter advice (check spelling and grammar), he said something that made the entire class sit up and take notice: the Facebook Test. [...]

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Geeks Who Take Advantage of Non-techies Really Piss Me Off

November 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’ve known I’ve wanted to teach for over 20 years, ever since the beginning of my undergrad days. While I used to think of teaching as my “fall back” job, I know now that teaching is something that I must do to be happy. When I teach, one of my core beliefs is that tech [...]

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Like All Things In Social Media, Facebook Fan Pages Aren’t For Everyone

November 24, 2009 By 2 Comments

It seems that a week doesn’t go by without receiving at least a few requests to be a fan of this or that on Facebook. Most of the time the requests come from friends, so I’m happy oblige, of course that doesn’t mean I’ll probably ever go back to that fan page (Facebook updates still [...]

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More Than One Way To Get Online On The Go, But Don’t Forget Security!

November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Ah WiFi. It’s almost everywhere now. Right now, in fact, I’m writing this post from a local coffee place that has great, free WiFi and awesome dark chocolate mochas, but WiFi isn’t everywhere. For the times I don’t have access to WiFi, I carry a USB data stick (EVDO modem) that gives me DSL level [...]

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Full Text vs Partial Text It Isn’t The Feed But The Reader’s Interface That Matters

November 23, 2009 By 6 Comments

Scoble was always one of the staunchest proponents of full-text RSS feeds out there. Back when I was a pro-blogger trying to crank out lots of posts in a day (or hour), I agreed with him. It was much more helpful (and better for my custom, local feed searches) if the feeds were full-text. I [...]

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