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A recent study from Rutgers University analyzing data from 2006 to 2010 found that more than 30% of recession-era college grads didnt land a job within six months of finishing school. And those who did find one were being paid less. The scramble for postcollege work has graduates racking their brains for ideas on how to get a good gig.

via Now What? – TIME.

So Apture is a little plugin we heard about from Darren Rowse, aka @problogger. I’m creating a quick post to test the functionality of the plugin. The benefit of this plugin is potentially huge for bloggers or businesses that want to guarantee more time spent on their own websites rather than linking out to other [...]

It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak. – Jones, The Noticer The situation in which you find yourself is fraught with difficulty, yes. It is also piled high with benefits. – Jones, The Noticer Remember, whatever [...]

My wife, wonderful woman that she is, often times is asked, “What does your husband do?” She sometimes likes to play it off like she doesn’t really know or can’t really explain it, but she has a pretty good idea. I play on the internet, trying out new services and technologies, and talk to people [...]

Testing the capabilities and functionality of the Twitter Tools Plugin for WordPress. Once I post this message, the plugin will automatically fire off a Tweet with my Twitter account. Using a second plugin, called Twitter Tools: bit.ly links that uses the API associated with my bit.ly (URL shortening) account. So, in theory (and being put [...]

What would happen if we put less attention on organizing relationships and more attention on giving people something to organize around? For example, what if we focused on serving opportunities? Would people naturally gather around those initiatives to serve others? What if we focused on the content we were generating to help people better understand [...]

Twitter Basics If you had no idea what Twitter was walking into this article, we’re going to start you off at the very beginning. To sign up for Twitter, go to twitter.com and click on “Get Started – Join!”. Fill out the information and voila – you have your own Twitter account. I set up [...]

The market is not free if it is not free to fail via The Tragedy of the Commons | Krypted. Excellent words and valuable insight by a colleague. I once heard, during the Clinton administration, from a Cuban immigrant, that he saw America “slouching towards Communism”. If we were slouching then, we’ve downright laid ourselves [...]

Ever have one of those days? Ever have one of those weeks? How about this: ever have one of those years? You know the kind I’m talking about. The kind where not one big thing goes wrong, but lots and lots and lots of little things don’t go quite right. I feel like I’m having [...]

While you can’t see this on my personal site, you can see it on our business site. “See what?” you may ask. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can see an optimized view of our blog because of these guys and their cool WPtouch plugin that we’ve enabled. If you have an [...]