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  • 5 Things You'll Like About Facebook's Recent Changes

    Facebook has been busy lately, unveiling Graph Search, a new News Feed and now a redesign of Timeline. The good news is that the changes are likely to improve the social network. Here's a look at the best features of Facebooks recent updates.

    Written by Kristin Burnham14 March 13 21:27
  • 5 Tips to Job Hunt Using Social Media

    LinkedIn may be the go-to place for many job seekers, but dont stop there. Here's a look at how you can use Facebook, Twitter and Google+--as well as some lesser-known social networks--to attract recruiters and land a job.

    Written by Kristin Burnham12 March 13 18:32
  • 6 Ways to Add Social Media to Your Web Design

    Web designers, social media experts and marketers discuss the impact of social media on Web design and offer tips on how you can integrate the two to reach more customers and prospects.

    Written by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff04 March 13 15:02
  • Review: Office 365 turns up the heat

    Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management

    Written by Doug Dineley27 Feb. 13 11:20
  • The How-To Guide for LinkedIn

    Our LinkedIn guide delivers expert advice on the site's features, step-by-step how-to instructions, details on its apps and proper LinkedIn etiquette. Also included: tips and tricks for your job search and company analysis.

    Written by Kristin Burnham21 Feb. 13 20:25
  • The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: 'They can't take my soul'

    We are standing in a parking lot in the city of Malmö, southern Sweden, one of the many places Peter Sunde now calls home. The sky above us is grey, as usual at this time of year. Just as the parking meter spits out our ticket, a young man driving much too fast on a motorcycle roars up behind us. He is followed by a police car, sirens blaring and blue lights flashing.

    Written by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson19 Feb. 13 05:02
  • Six innovations that will change healthcare

    When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation. These six examples from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Future of Health and Wellness Conference could change the way patients interact with hospitals, physicians and each other.

    Written by Brian Eastwood18 Feb. 13 19:48
  • Highly regulated companies tiptoe into social media

    Some healthcare providers, financial services firms and other companies in highly regulated industries are taking full advantage of social media, even though they're awash in rules. Here's how they do it.

    Written by Linda Melone11 Feb. 13 11:13
  • How Gamification Reshapes Corporate Training

    If you have a hard time getting employees to attend corporate training, maybe you need to add a little fun. To motivate workers to attend training courses, Deloitte put its course catalog online and added gamification. Badges? Turns out you do need stinkin' badges.

    Written by Lauren Brousell05 Feb. 13 17:38
  • Opinion: How do you manage your social networks?

    I recently decided, somewhat randomly, to experiment a bit more with social networking. I was on LinkedIn and at some point the service asked me if it could access my Gmail contact list.

    Written by Mark Gibbs28 Jan. 13 15:18
  • Facebook's search tool could be big money maker

    If users take to Facebook's new search tool, the social network could be in line to haul in a lot of advertising dollars, say industry analysts.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin17 Jan. 13 17:42
  • Facebook turns up the heat on Google Search

    With Facebook's new search service out in the open, the social network seems to be on a collision course with search giant Google.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin16 Jan. 13 21:01
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