You’re well educated and you have great experience in the workplace, but landing a job is proving far more difficult than you imagined. Perhaps it’s time to step up to the plate and hit your résumé out of the park. Recruiters may sift through hundreds of résumés to fill one role and are looking for the ones that immediately catch their eye. Use this handy guide to help make your résumé rise to stand out above the rest. Click image to enlarge). Online Training Employment Hiring job serch resume unemployment MORE >>

Are you a connected educator? Are you a teacher who has managed to harness the power of social media to connect with peers and experts around the globe? Coming hand in hand with these connections is a whole new culture of learning and teaching. Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) has a lot to say about the connected educator. They are transparent in their thinking, he suggests, and that means that they are not shy in sharing their ideas or giving away their content for free. On the #authorspeak Twitter hashtag today there was a lot of commentary about connected educators. Unported License. MORE >>

Within the room 90% of attendees were checking email before coffee. We are not unique in our profession. year ago it was about 35%. Curation is a good news bad news thing. The Cloud is everywhere and all we do will be linked into the cloud. And it is presented as good. However, often the are storm clouds too. Essentially all information is now in the cloud and available, but sometimes our job is truly to get less information. Or at lest key information. 30% of people get up and check email in the night. Not good, there's to much informiton and we need to learn to mange it. Not at all. You!!! MORE >>

Here at TechSmith, lots of our teams like to use Campfire to collaborate. We've built a few homegrown bots for things like announcing check ins and daily Dilbert comics, but we never took it to the level that GitHub did. When they released Hubot, we jumped at the chance to start using it ourselves. The easiest way to get up and running with Hubot is with Heroku , the cloud application platform. First create a Heroku account. Then you'll need to verify the account (which means entering a credit card). Heroku requires users to be verified to add redis to go to your application stack. Ruby Gems. MORE >>

Here is another in my notes from the 2011 KM World. attended the session, Engaging Community With Intranets & Social Media by Lisa Tenerelli Smith , Director, Associate Communications - Scotts Miracle-Gro Company. Here are the session notes: “This session shares engagement strategies for the company intranet, The Garden, and illustrates with a look at their internal pages. It shows how the use of social media has connected company associates with consumers through discussion forums, audio feeds from call centers, and more. MORE >>