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Your New Google Profile Is More Like LinkedIn & Facebook

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 …

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5 Steps To Getting Into Harvard

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 …

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10 Reasons You Should Be Teaching Online

10 Reasons You Should Be Teaching Online

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 …

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The Ultimate Guide To Exporting Your Delicious Bookmarks

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 …

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How To Get Your MBA On Facebook

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 …

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New Facebook App Tells College Applicants If They'll Get In

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 …

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How To Become A Certified Virtual Classroom Teacher

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 …

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The Ultimate Guide To Online Privacy

The Ultimate Guide To Online Privacy

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 …

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The Newbie’s Guide To Social Media, By The U.S. Army

The Newbie’s Guide To Social Media, By The U.S. Army

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. …

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How To Finally Use Your Real Phone Number On Google Voice

How To Finally Use Your Real Phone Number On Google Voice

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 …

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How To Keep Up With #EdChat

How To Keep Up With #EdChat

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 …

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The Cheat Sheet For How Your Blog Works

The Cheat Sheet For How Your Blog Works

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 …

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Why You SHOULD and SHOULDN’T Go To Law School

Why You SHOULD and SHOULDN’T Go To Law School

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 …

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7 Expert Tips To Working From Home

7 Expert Tips To Working From Home

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 …

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101 Ways To Get Noticed Online

101 Ways To Get Noticed Online

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 …

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The Ultimate Guide To Moving Your Delicious Bookmarks

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 …

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How To Transform Your Macbook Air Into An Old School Notebook

How To Transform Your Macbook Air Into An Old School Notebook

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 …

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How To Find The Perfect Book For Any Topic

How To Find The Perfect Book For Any Topic

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 …

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The Ultimate Twitter Glossary From @ To Z

The Ultimate Twitter Glossary From @ To Z

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 …

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The Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators

The Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators

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 …

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