I use AOL and I am a big fan of Google. If you use AOL, you may have noticed the search screen says: AOL Search Enhanced by Google. AOL and Google have a continuing relationship that they have extended for another 5 years. Part of that relationship includes: ...
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Facebook’s Growth: More People Logging In, Catching Up To Google
In a recent Windows: The Official Magazine article, they noted that Facebook has 400,000 active users and the average user has 130 friends, 3 billion photos are shared every month, 60 million status updates are made every day, and the average user spends about 55...
What is Google Checkout? How Does it Compare to PayPal?
According to their site, Google Checkout allows you to: • Stop creating multiple accounts and passwords. With Google Checkout™ you can quickly and easily buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place. • Shop with confidence....
Online Schools Using Skype, Tinychat, Video Conferencing, Wiki and Other Technologies
Recently one of the universities where I work sent me an email stating that they require that I have a Skype account. I was curious to see if other schools were using Skype and did a little research. I found an article which I found interesting from...
Are You Monitoring Your Online Reputation?
Individuals and companies need to keep track of their online reputation. Do you know who is writing about you or your business? In my book, How to Reinvent Your Career, I mention the importance of having a clean reputation online in case employers do some research...
Top 5 Ways You Should Be Using Linkedin To Find A Job
Input a presentation from Google Docs to showcase your abilities. It is simple to create presentations in Google Docs that are very similar to a PowerPoint presentation. There is an application you can add within Linkedin that allows you to access the Google Docs...
How to Use Google Docs and Linkedin to Get a Job
I often write about different ways to obtain a job. One of the best ways is through networking and having strong visibility. A great tool that you can use to accomplish this is Linkedin’s ability to input from Google Docs. If you don’t have a Google account, I...
Top 50 Online Buzz Words Explained
If you are considering taking an online college course and feel intimated by the terminology, here are 50 of the top buzz words and terminology you will hear in the online environment. If you are wondering what a rubric is . . . you are not alone. I have alphabetized...
Network Neutrality Explained
Repost from Mobydisk: Diane checks the internet. Her home page is Google, which is her favorite search engine. Today however, Diane's system can't connect to google.com. So she tries her next favorite search engine, MSN. msn.com seems to be working, but it is very...
Why I Recommend Using Google Calendar for My Students
I personally have www.igoogle.com as my homepage. I love everything Google right now. I think that www.google.com/calendar is a great place for students to go to set up their calendars, plan their days and become organized for school. Google gives their 7 reasons to...
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Our guest today is DocuSign’s Chief People Officer, Joan Burke. In this episode, we discuss DocuSign’s unique core company values: Trusted, Loved, and Responsible. Joan tells us how and why these values are kept top-of-mind for every decision around how they treat...
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Years ago, autonomous vehicles could be thought of as nothing but fiction. As technology advances, more and more people have been cozying up to self-driving cars and their positive impact on the environment. Jeffrey Bleich, the Chief Legal Officer for Cruise,...
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Beauty comes from within—a phrase we often hear to motivate us when insecurities attack. But there’s more to it than what we often think. In this episode, Hitendra Wadhwa, educator, speaker, and founder of the Mentora Institute, takes us deeper within. He talks about...
