2021 Best Gifts for Graduate Students (From a Grad Student)
Gifts (only the good ones) for grad students. The 2015 list is better than ever. Original source: 2021 Best Gifts for Graduate Students (From a Grad Student)
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Free Skill Training for Digital Marketers in Quarantine
Has more downtime given you the urge to upskill? Many companies have generously provided free short-term access to their tools, platforms, and previously paid instructional materials to help students and educators alike deal with the sudden whiplash of rapidly moving everything online during the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) spread. For digital marketers looking to take full […] Original source:…
Why I WON’T Be Using Facebook’s New Reaction Buttons
Facebook just rolled out 5 new “Reactions” to complement the platform’s ubiquitous “Like” button: Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. Unfortunately, “Troubled” isn’t among them to capture my initial reaction to the new features. So what’s wrong with more choice? After all, “Like” doesn’t even begin to capture our full range of emotions, so surely this gets […] Original source: Why I WON’T Be Using…
Get Your Desk Job Groove Back with the Awesome Furinno A6 [Review]
Image credit For many of us who have a “desk job,” sitting is life. I grew up convinced that the whole point of going to college was so I could get a job that lets me sit all day instead of work in a coal mine and get black lung. You know what I’m talking about. Maybe you’ve got a nice mahogany […] Original source: Get Your Desk Job Groove Back with the Awesome Furinno A6 [Review]
Amazon’s Fairy Tale Response to a Toddler’s Halloween Wish
Amazon has recently been the target of some high profile negative press about its intense workplace pressures. One would almost think there would be little room at Amazon for the kind of magical customer moments that people typically only associate with companies like Disney. But Halloween magic is definitely what we got from the tech giant. When our girls both wanted […] Original source: Amazon’s…
What You Find While Cleaning Out the Office of a World-Class Researcher
Image Credit Once in a while, you have a rare kind of sobering moment that makes you pause and consider your career and trajectory. I had one today as I helped remove everything from the office of a recently retired professor. As background, this professor had been in our department for over 30 years. In his prime, he was […] Original source: What You Find While Cleaning Out the Office of a…
The 20 Most Hilarious Research Tweets from #OverlyHonestMethods
Scientists, researchers, and academics brought some of the funniest material ever to Twitter with the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag, taking a good jab at research, academic publishing, and the general unwritten ways things actually work in academia. Here’s a collection of some of the best “overly honest methods.” (Read those below, then check out the full stream […] Original source: The 20 Most…
Platform Paralysis? How to Choose Social Media Channels for Business
Google Plus is where the action is. Wait, actually it’s Instagram! No, you completely forgot about Pinterest. Oops, you’re late to the Vine game. If you think the number of social media channels has become overwhelming, you’re not alone. Just a quick snapshot from NameChk and you’ll see all of the possible social sites where […] Original source: Platform Paralysis? How to Choose Social Media…
BOOK REVIEW: Search Engine Optimization (3rd Edition) by Kris Jones
Want to learn SEO? You’ll find hundreds of websites and forums, and dozens of books and ebooks willing to teach you. That alone should suggest that it takes more than a simple “how-to” to learn how to optimize websites for search engines and people. Some resources get outdated more quickly than others. Others can be […] Original source: BOOK REVIEW: Search Engine Optimization (3rd Edition) by Kris…
A Little List of Algorithm-based Content Aggregator Websites
One of a content marketer’s main questions is how to use content strategically. For those who don’t have the resources to create all their own content, there’s curation–distributing others’ content in a way that builds trust and brand equity. My observation is that very few people really know how to curate well. Good curation is […] Original source: A Little List of Algorithm-based Content…