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What Has LinkedIn Done for Your Professional Goals?

Are you a member of LinkedIn? The recent tweets about the Ed Tech Start Up Group has me thinking about the potential usefulness of this networking site.
In their LinkedIn for Dummies post, Avangate describes the networking site’s benefits as:
•    Networking
•    Hiring
•    Posting jobs
•    Get business advice; expertise
•    Find high-quality passive candidates (people who are not [...]

Is Facebook As Good As Face-to-Face?

As students begin spending more and more of their socializing time on social networking sites, it seems like they would have to spend less time actually talking face to face. In fact, it seems like they don’t even talk on the phone anymore now that they’ve discovered they can text surreptitiously during class. Add to [...]