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Social Networking as a job search tool? It seems like such an easy concept, but many people are not sure how to properly harness the Web for this purpose.

Laptops – they are a quick means to take notes, look up information, and even play a game of solitaire or IM with buddies in the middle of a teacher’s lecture. Let’s face it, when students pop open their laptops in class, very few, if any, actually use their personal computers for homework’s sake. So, why are laptops allowed in the classroom then?

What is Twitter and what is tweeting? Many college students already know how to tweet, but some don’t.

Looking to support a cause through Twitter? There’s something called Twibbons that can help you do just that.

It is hard to say whether entire online degrees are that time-saving either. There is still plenty of studying to be done at home, and teachers can make the assumptions they do with the take-home exams – students have extra time to work at home.

Ricochet, a new website, is dedicated to spreading a center-right perspective via a web interface, a podcast and on mobile phones.

If you’ve had a lot of interview experience, you are probably already familiar with these tips, but if you haven’t they might just be the difference between getting an offer and being conveniently “forgotten” about. You want to be the candidate that employers fight over–not the one they cringe at. Matthew Rothenberg, Editor-in-Chief of TheLadders.com [...]

Do you remember a time without Google? I don’t, but that might be saying more for my generation than Google’s influence. However, there’s no doubt that since 1998 (Google’s founding year) that the search engine has changed the internet. In June of 2006 “google” was even added as a verb into the Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
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In the days of stay-at-home moms and paperback books, there was such a phenomenon known as a book club. Women (and men perhaps, although I am only familiar with female-run book clubs) would get together and enjoy some personal time to express their opinions about a chosen book. There would be a book list, perhaps [...]

Facebook’s new privacy settings, or lack of such, have upset many users and some have taken things into their own hands, literally. Students at New York University have raised over $100,000 to create a Facebook alternative called Diaspora, according to an article on Mashable.com.
According to the article, “an open source personal web service that will put [...]