Spoofing Google's Location Tracker

Bill Hartzer tells how one can fake their location using a Google Chrome extension, "Manual Geolocation" ( https://goo.gl/XA7ED5 ).

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Responding to E-mail

Richard Moy suggests how to set your email's auto-responder when taking a one day vacation.

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InterUniversity Graduate Seminar Experience

Emily Dolan and Jonathan Sterne recount the experience of teaching a course using teleconferencing between universities in Montreal and Boston.

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Hiding Your Website

Patrick Stox suggests how to keep a website from being indexed by Google.

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Appreciating Individuals

Lydia Dishman says appreciation is an often overlooked stress-reducer and motivator

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Give Thanks for What You've Accomplished

Anna Meyer shares the value of a reverse bucket list .

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Interviewing for a Faculty Position

Manya Whitaker suggests how candidates for faculty positions should conduct themselves in an interview .

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EMP Danger to Civilization

Paul Ratner warns that any nation, including the U.S., is vulnerable to an EMP attack .

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University Enrollment Decisions

Eric Hoover introduces the College Scholarship Tycoon game developed by Vox.
Hoover points out that money from the scholarship pot can either be given to poor first-generation students, or to wealthy students who are likely to financially benefit the university.

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Sleep Deprivation

Phillip Perry reports that sleep deprivation slows neural activity .

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Tax Impact on Graduate Students

Eric Kelderman reports how the GOP tax plan would harm graduate students .

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Changing a Website File Structure Can Reduce Results

Joost De Valk warns that changing a site file structure may temporarily reduce the number of people who find your website.

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Web Security

Johannes Beus suggests that more than half of all Web traffic uses secure (https) web sites.

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Search Engine Optimization

Amy Biggart suggests a basic plan for search engine optimization .

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Google Now Estimates a Position's Wage

Nick Zakrasek reports that Google's job search offering now provides estimated salaries.

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Information Curation by Librarians

Justin Sipher notes that librarians do more evaluation of information and information sources than in the past.

Mark Ray attempts to change the sterotypes for librarians.

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Streamling Course Offerings to Improve Graduation Rates

Katherine Mangan observes that the University of Wisconsin at Superior is eliminating a couple dozen academic programs, streamlining course offerings in a hope of "making it easier for students to graduate on time ."

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Successful Telecommuting

Patty Azzarello offers seven suggestions for establishing telecommuting policies.
Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj developed a Harvard Business Review case study on this topic.

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Online or Onsite Courses

Beth McMurftrie examines research about the best mix of online and onsite classes . A blended environment seems to provide the best balance for student success.

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Reviving the Brain Through Relationship

Brady Wilson in this video discusses how a brain can become tired and depressed, and how to revive a brain by connecting with others.

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Receive an Answer

Zack Slayback offers a tip on receiving a response email from industry leaders.

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Ten Thousand Experiment Rule?

Michael Simmons suggests that the " ten thousand hour rule " is not applicable to many firms. Simmons offers "attempts" as a more universal predictor of success.

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Fake News

Eric Schmidt discusses fake news and foreign influence in U.S. information sources.

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University Endowments Threatened

Ben Myers and Brock Read scoured the proposed U.S. Tax Code revisions, and conclude that the private universities with large endowments will need to pay additional tax if the section 5103 of the Act is not revised.

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Open Education Resources and Social Justice

Robin DeRosa suggests that the use of Open Education Resources may be a social justice issue.

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Changing Viewer Audience

Peter Minnium reviews statistics on the decline of television and the rise of online video , concluding with ideas for marketing which use video technology.

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Ancient Books

Sarah Laskow searched for the oldest books in major libraries - and their stories .

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Google's New Location Restrictions

Fili Weise suggests that Google's location restriction on search results may be due to legal pressure, such as "Right to Be Forgotten" laws in some nations.

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Marketers, Avoid Resending Emails

Scott Heimes suggests that sending copies of former emaisls as reminders can be bad for marketing because users are likely to unsubscribe to your list, and ISPs may see the duplicate emails as spam.

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Universities Face New Regulation

Corrine Letsch reports that new regulation requires U.S. universities utilize with new cyber practices to comply with regulations.

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Google Travel Data

Andrew Hawkins reports that Google will cease providing airline travel data to third party developers in April, 2018. There are alternatives.

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