Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.
This was originally my column for my school newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. But as seems to happen periodically, it’s just right for The 2.0 Life too.
As an outgoing college student with zero interest in actually going to grad school immediately, I’m on the job hunt. Unfortunately, that puts me in league with a crazy number of other people, both students and non-students, in a time when there are fewer and fewer jobs to be had.
It really is a scary time to be looking for a job (or even a summer internship), but thankfully, there are some great tools on the Web designed to help you not only find, but land, the job of your dreams.
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This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer, who writes on About.com and about Online Classes.
Facebook’s not just a gigantic time-sink, making you less and less productive as the service gets more and more popular. There are lots of ways to make Facebook more useful, and apps are one of the best. Thanks to its huge universe of applications, Facebook actually offers a number of ways for students, and anyone who’s still game for a little learning, to figure out something new.
These apps can enhance online learning, give you more control over your schedule, and make it easier to interact with professors and classmates. They’re particularly good for students of all ages, but they can help anyone who’s looking to further their learning, or get a little more organized. Here are 15 Facebook apps worth exploring (and worth telling your parents about, so they’ll leave you alone about all the time you spend on the site):
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Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.
Over the course of my life, I’ve probably started a journal about 850,000 times. Every time something monumental happens, or I go on a cool trip, I start a journal, and keep it for a little while. Then, life either gets boring, busy, or both, and I give up.
What I’ve realized recently, though, is that the reason I’ve never stuck to a journal is that it takes so long. In order to write legibly – and it’s debatable if that’s even possible – I have to write stupidly slow, and it takes me about 4 days to write a journal entry that says “had a bagel for lunch today.”
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Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.
As someone who spends many, many, MANY hours every day on a computer (seriously. It’s a lot. Like, I’m not even kidding. Except maybe a little.), I’m always looking for ways to do things faster, to complete a small task more quickly. So I can spend less time on the computer? Nah. I just want to Stumble.
I’ve found a bunch of tips that make doing lots of little things, like switching apps and jumping to the desktop. They might only save a couple of seconds each time, but those seconds add up awfully quickly for anyone who spends a lot of time at a computer.
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When you login to Twitter, at the top of the page you see the box that you’re supposed to tweet from. The box asks you a simple question: “What are you doing?”
Please, for the love of everything holy, don’t answer that question.
Making that the default question, the prompt to which you’re supposed to respond in your tweets, was a poor choice on Twitter’s part. It’s also a huge part of the reason Twitter’s benefit is so hard to comprehend for a lot of people.
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