Academic Side-Jobs

Josh Boldt suggests side jobs which a university faculty member can take for additional income.

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Audiobooks

Rebecca Rego Barry reports on the success of audiobooks .

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LinkedIn Buys Lydia.com

Phil Hill raises concerns about LinkedIn's purchase of Lydia.com . LinkedIn intends to offer training to job seekers, but Hill questions whether the information can easily be conveyed in an automated online environment.

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Hashtag Usage

David William reports on research on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter conducted by TrackMaven, which found that hashtag usage should differ on each platform for effective discovery.

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Fact Checking

MetroSverige has distributed a video on the importance of fact-checking before posting on social media. It is based on a recent incident where a false rumor was posted about Moslems and Christmas lights.

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Team Behavior

Charles Duhigg reports on Google's efforts to identify characteristics of the best work teams .

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Email Ettiquette

Aja Frost suggests three words which may be perceived as rude .

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Dissertation Side Jobs

Nicole Cesare offers tips for those completing a dissertation.

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Barriers to Educational Attainment

Eric Johnson reviews a new book by J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy," and uses examples from the text to show how small barriers pile-up to deny minorities educational success.

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Craft an Apology

Peter Bregman suggests anger can be diffused by a sincere apology that recognizes the wrong which was done.

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Malware Warning

Gregg Keizer explains a new way which users of the Chrome web browser will discover that a website is spewing malware .

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Holiday Business Trends and Advice

Small Business Trends provides statistics and advice for the small business owner during the holiday season.

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Procrastination

Allison M. Vaillancourt suggests "Why We Can't Finish Things."

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Tools for Online Privacy

Roger Grimes suggest tools to increase online privacy .

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Behavior to Avoid

Bill Murphy, Jr. suggests ten bad practices that can hinder career advancement.

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Classroom Incivility

Barbara Lee proposes how educators should deal with classroom incivility . Situations covered include:

1. Preparation before discussing a challenging topic.
2. When dialog becomes threatening.
3. When dialog results in complaints from outside the classroonm.

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Website Status Checker

Ryan Francis offered a list of new information technology products, most of which are for a corporate environment. One free product of general interest was an Internet status heatmap, based on real-time reports of Internet professionals harvested by Spiceworks. While a check of the Spiceworks website showed this product was not yet available, a website status checker is available, and this web address may be a useful tool in an end-user's arsenal.

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The Importance of Confronting Privately

Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz discusses the case of student Tiffany C. Martínez who complained about a lack privacy when her university professor accused her of plagiarism.

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Avoiding Hiring Bias

Sharon Florentine offers suggestions for corporations fighting hiring bias .

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Corporate Responsibility

Matt Alderton suggests that corporate donations to schools can be a win both for the company and for the community.

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Microsoft Goes 3D

Ian Paul reveals Microsoft's strategy for incorporating three dimensional images in software such as Paint, PowerPoint and Word.

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Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Technology Firms

Sharon Florentine demonstrates that companies need to make a significant effort to succeed in increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce. Accenture has identified three actions which would increase the number of female technology candidates:

1. Spark interest in junior high
2. Sustain engagement in high school
3. Inspire a career after college

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Apple's Technology Migration

John Brandon laments Apple's rapid transition to new interface technologies, a transition which requires carrying a dongle with your sleek new device to maintain compatibility with the existing sound and data technology infrastructure.

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Renewable Energy Sources

Lucas Mearian reports that renewable energy sources (hydro-electric, solar, wind, etc.) was behind more than half of the new energy capacity added in 2015. More information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Bibliophiles

Frank Furedi muses on the motivations of bibliophiles through the ages.

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Disseminating Election Results

Andy Cotgreave reviews how election data was shared, and the improvements in displaying information improved the timeliness of each citizen'knowledge of the election results.

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Bookstrap and Color Libraries

Mark Gibbs shares two web development tools in his article on color libraries and Bootstrap Framework . I want to try the Bookstrap Framework, as LibGuides now uses Bootstap for spatially organizing web content.

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Experimental Error

Ransom Stephens reviews the scientific method and the apparent movement of neutrinos faster than light (later determined to be an equipment error).

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The Twentieth Anniversary of the Networked Camera

Keith Shaw interviews Fredrik Nilsson about Axis cameras.

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Software Development Wisdom

Peter Wayner observes that experienced (older) software developers have developed an intuition for proper design that schools do not teach. Wayner shares seven lessons which old programmers know, and followed it up with five more .

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Google Jamboard

Blair Hanley Frank reviews Google's new whiteboard offering, jamboard , which enhances both local and distance collaboration.

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Data Access: Wi-Fi vs. 4G

Andy Patrizio suggests that if a busy professional requires large amounts of data while on the road, then 4G data access is important. If a slow or intermittent wi-fi signal would only be an inconvenience, using free wi-fi is an option.

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Software Best Practices - And Exemptions

Peter Wayner shares seven supposedly bad software programming practices which still are sometimes useful in application design.

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Web Browser Comparison

Austin Evans' YouTube video reviews the major web browsers in use in 2016, comparing strengths and weaknesses, and recommends browsers for specific applications.

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