Your Facebook profile is a little piece of you. You want it to provide an accurate representation of yourself. Facebook is where you probably feel safe enough to say what you like and act how you want. How would you feel if professional social networking could get you better job prospects? What if you might [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘technology’
11 March, 2010
20/20 – Day 19: 20 online security necessities
It’s the penultimate day of 20/20 and I’m playing it safe. Well, helping you stay safe anyway. In many ways we take the Internet for granted. It’s easy to forget the need to be secure and safe online. And it needs more than some anti-virus software. What do you do to stay safe online? If [...]
5 November, 2009
Artistic Merit?
Peter Mandelson has announced a new Higher Education blueprint, Higher Ambitions. Among many measures, one thing Mandelson wants is greater funding and more priority given to science and technology subjects. So…is it worth studying subjects in Arts and Humanities any more? The Chronicle says “Just Don’t Go”. Savvy Student says it “Isn’t Such a Bad [...]
3 September, 2009
Creative talent…help me choose!
I’ve been asked to help find a student with a great creative talent. That student could win big. Next Generation Talent is a competition sponsored by Panasonic that will award one person a 42-inch High Definition TV, HD Camcorder, digital camera and Blu-ray player. On top of that, they’ll get a 2-week placement at a [...]
23 June, 2009
Online learning fund to benefit both online and off?
Universities are being asked today to work together to bid for money to develop new e-learning projects. David Lammy (Minister for Higher Education) is hoping to help ensure UK universities are at the forefront of online distance learning. Lammy announced a £20million learning innovation fund to allow better access to online learning. Among other things, [...]
29 January, 2008
Recruiting in Other Worlds: Are You Prepared For Virtual Interviews?
Earlier today, I received a comment on a previous post about jobs and CVs. LJ asked an interesting question: “I wonder what advice you would give someone facing a virtual interview?” Virtual interviews are a recent development to recruitment. They’ve been used more as a taste of the future, but the results have resulted in possible job offers. [...]
21 November, 2007
E-Book Readers – The Future or a Damp Squib?
There’s been a lot of hype about Amazon’s new e-book reader, the Kindle. There are already many sites talking about the device (and that’s just a random selection), so I’ll let you read up on it elsewhere if you don’t know about it already. But I was wondering just how practical something like this would be [...]
