In this day and age, you have to be conscious of what people see when they Google you. Chances are good that your official Google profile will come up in those results unless you’ve hidden it. Lucky for you, it just got a bit easier …
I am a big fan of eHow. It offers easy-to-understand directions on how to do just about anything. It even rates the difficulty of your task. However, it’s hard not to laugh a bit when you stumble across their instructions on “How to Get Into …
If you’re thinking about taking the plunge into teaching online, there’s a new service you should know about. LiveMind is a Connecticut-based company that looks to help you “learn virtually anything” online. I spoke with the President and Founder of LiveMind, David Dean, about the …
Delicious is slowly being phased out. There’s a ton of competitors out there licking their lips to get their hands on your bookmarks. This means each one is building their very own Delicious Bookmark Importer tool to make it easy as pie to move your …
So you spend a few hours every day on Facebook. You probably skim through your friends and family members’ photos, updates, and check out a few apps. What if one of those apps put you on the road to getting an actual MBA? The London …
Hoping to take some of the mystery and anxiety out of college admissions, AdmissionSplash, a new Facebook app might be the dose of reality college applicants need. The app basically rates your chances of being accepted into a particular school. While the actual decision is …
Cisco has just announced a new certification that lets you show off just how amazing you are as an online teacher. If you’ve ever run a virtual class (chances are good as this snow is causing the need for some serious consideration of holding classes …
If you’ve ever visited a website that handles even the smallest bit of your personal information, there’s a good chance (hopefully) that it’s asked you to read through a privacy policy or two. Rather than pour over the details, many of us simply click on …
People in the Army are busy. Probably too busy to spend as much time as they might like on social media. Rather than stay uninformed, the U.S. Army has just unveiled what is basically a newbie’s guide to social media written just for military personnel. …
One of the biggest reasons I don’t use Google Voice is because I don’t need another phone number in my life. That’s about to change. Google Voice is finally letting users use their main phone number with the service…but there’s a catch: it’ll cost you …
First off, here’s a 10-second description of what #edchat is. (Not perfect but it’s a start) Did you know there are hundreds of teachers and academic administrators sharing all kinds of information on a regular basis? In fact, there’s so much information being shared that …
If you’ve ever used WordPress, you’ve probably activated and tweaked more than a few themes in your day. Those themes don’t magically appear out of thin air. They’re built by developers who create dozens of coded pages that seamlessly work together to ensure your viewing …
The following is a guest post by Ann Levine, a friend of Edudemic and law school admission consultant. Be sure to check out her blog Get In: Law School and her past articles on Edudemic. I am proud to be a lawyer and I am …
I work from home. I know what you’re thinking – pajamas all day, SportsCenter, unshaven, regular naps, Facebook all day, in late, out early. Trust me, it’s not like that. Working from home successfully requires discipline, long hours, constant contact with your team/manager, extra effort …
If you’re looking to beef up your Twitter follower count, add members to your Facebook ‘like’ page, or just get more people interacting / noticing you online… leave it to the experts. HubSpot is far and away one of the best marketing firms in the …
Delicious may be ready to live another day… maybe even another week or two. But Yahoo has stated they’re planning on shopping the service around and hopefully unloading it. That doesn’t bode well for the social bookmarking service. As a popular way to share links …
Whether you’re a teacher or a student, this is awesome. I’m a big fan of modding laptops to make them appear more educational, but that can be expensive and time-consuming. It’s time for a dead-simple way to turn your 11″ Macbook Air into what appears …
As if there was any doubt, libraries and book stores are so last year. In its ever-expanding role as the King of All Media, Google just unveiled a new feature to Google Books: Ngram Viewer. In a nutshell, it lets you search millions of books …
Whether you’re new to Twitter or a seasoned power user, there’s much more to it than you may think. This Official Twitter Glossary comes straight from Twitter and holds literally every thing you can do on Twitter… from @ to z. The glossary contains lingo …
There’s an epic new ‘book’ out there that may soon become your go-to guide for all things web and education. It’s a detailed examination of dozens of web tools for educators. Beth Still (one of my favorite edubloggers!) as well as ten other educators including …