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		<title>My lessons learned during job hunting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been going on job interviews, as my OPS contract with the college expires soon. The daily news covers stories about how tough the job market is and people having to go to many interviews before securing something. It seems like the jobs you really want, are not offered, however, the job you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=175&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[December 4, 2010 Ahhh&#8230;it is cool outside, just enough to layer up or down, and I have the day to myself. I like to take times like this to reflect on things going on in my life. Of course, this is also close to Christmas and I like to reflect on sharing, giving and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=158&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Free Software Recommendations</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/my-free-software-recommendations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get asked a lot about different free software products. Here are some of my recommendations. Most of these I do use. 1. Free virus checker for phones called Lookout. It works with many phones and free. http://www.mylookout.com/ 2. Spybot search and destroy &#8211; http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html 3. Avast virus protection &#8211; home edition &#8211; http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download 4. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=154&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could the history of likes or dislikes date back to Greek times?</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/likes-dislikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching an old black and white movie, filmed back in the late 1940’s, that had a story line of gladiators performing the coliseum during the Greek era. After gladiators fought and no one died, it was decided by the referee if one of the gladiators was spared or put to death. However, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=130&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone has a story</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/everyone-has-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a story&#8230;although mine is probably too long to put in a short post. Tonight was very emotional for me. It is unlike me to actually sit and write about it.  The night started off as normal as excepted. I stopped by the store, picked up a few things, went home and we decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=116&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government from a coffee shop, social media</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/govcoffeeshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 18:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many things I do love about my job is the flexibility to work remotely. There are occasions when I work from a coffee shop.  Why? Is the ambiance? Is it all the interesting people you see and hear? Can I really serve people via my laptop from a coffee shop? Certainly. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=102&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Records&#8230;Tools to Archive Twitter and Facebook</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a social media/networking advocate for the past year. I have really enjoyed seeing all the ways government has opened up and embraced using social M/N tools to enhance their communications with their constituents. However, many governments are still in the beginning stages of figuring out how to use the tools, create a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=81&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Synchronous e-learning and Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/synchronous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I participated in my first International online class for using Moodle. What a neat experience. The teacher and facilitators of the class used a live software tool to make the course interactive.  Not only where the students from all over the world, the teachers were too.   The main teacher was broadcasting live from Israel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=79&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd: Small unexpected success</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/unexpected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is somewhat of a social media success story. On August 13, 2009 I posted up a document on Scribd. Scribd is a free social media document sharing site. The document in my mind was considered draft since I was still working on it. I really only uploaded so I could access it via mobile.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=75&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Security, pandemic and social networking sites</title>
		<link>http://apriledmonds.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/security-pandemic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently e-conversing with a colleague on using social networking (SN) tools during a pandemic. How would you get information out? How would citizens know that it is valid information? There is deep concern about security, spoofing and false information on SN sites. I thought about this for a long time and really came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apriledmonds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7320086&amp;post=71&amp;subd=apriledmonds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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