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How Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job

How Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN April 10, 2007 is an intresting feature appeared in wall street journal online.It says Corporate recruiters have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they are also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can't get from résumés and interviews.

In addition to blogs that focus on their industry or field of interest, recruiters say they check candidates' blogs about non career-related topics for evidence of writing skills and clues to how well rounded they are.

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Web 2.0: Where will it take libraries

Article: Web 2.0: Where will it take libraries by Dr. Wendy Schultz

On the way to the library experience of the future

PM asked to launch library commission

NEW DELHI, Jan. 14: The National Knowledge Commission has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to constitute a National Commission on Libraries and create a Library Fund with an outlay of Rs 1,000 crore to promote knowledge economy in the country.
“A permanent, independent and financially autonomous NCL should be set up by the central government as a statutory body to address all the information needs of the citizens,”
Commission chairman Mr Sam Pitroda said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
As a prelude, the government should immediately set up a national mission of libraries, which should subsequently be converted into a permanent commission.

Read Further :http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2007-01-15&usrsess=1&clid=2&id=170975

Librarians World

Librarians World is good and fantastic web site of the librarians for the librarians by the librarians.Each and everyone can share and participate in the development of the website.Librarian's World is a community of librarians without any geographical boundaries or without a specific mission. It is a democratically managed site without any editor. The content of this site will be generated only out of contributions from members , so everyone who is interested in Library Science is authorized to register and also contribute to this website.
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The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web

OEDb: A good guide to invisible web, which gives background of invisible web, Reasons a Web Page is Invisible, Ways to Make Invisible Content Visible, How to Access and Search for Invisible Content, Invisible Web Search Tools etc...

When you use a search engine on the Internet and can't find what you're looking for, what do you do? Maybe you're seeking to learn something, which means you're probably going to keep trying until you find it. Or give up in frustration. Don't give up that easily. There's information out there that is actually not indexed in the big search engines. Such Web pages are part of what's called the Dark, Deep, Hidden or Invisible Web. Those pages that are actually indexed are known by some as the surface Web. Fortunately, the invisible Web is getting easier to search, with tools beyond the standard big three search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

Read in full : http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/invisible-web