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Week 7 of the SharePoint Masters Program

The SharePoint Masters program is almost over as this is week 7. The week focus is SharePoint Portal Management and Darrell Wire will be the instructor for the week. From the Career Development side, official engagement occurred last week bringing the job search to front and center. A tool that works hand in hand with the job search is networking. Some ...read full article»

Week 6 of SharePoint Masters Program

A new week is upon us along with new content. In week 6 of the SetFocus SharePoint Masters Program students will be focused on a SharePoint Business Processes project. From the Career Development side, this is an exciting week as students should be nearing officially engaging with their region Placement Specialist. To become engaged with a Placement Specialist a student needs ...read full article»

Week 5 of the SharePoint Masters Program!

The content continues to flow as we enter week 5 of the SetFocus SharePoint Masters Program. The week begins with a one day project focused on Branding and Web Content Management and then student’s transition to a lecture on SharePoint Business Processes given by Darrell Wire. The Career Development team also continues to provide new content each week during the Brown ...read full article»

Networking tool: A job board plus rich tech content at Techweb.com

Techweb's content and professional services reach more than 13.3 technology professionals. More than 400,000 participants each year join their virtual events.

Article Alley – Networking Connection

In the article Network Your Way to Work: Personal Connections Are the Key to Finding a Job, C.J. Hayden provides us with examples and reasons why job board hunting alone will not land you a job. She discusses the human factor in job searching and suggests to the reader that they expand their job searches by building, rebuilding, and expanding ...read full article»

The Third Week!

The second week has come to a close and the third has begun. The course is beginning to increase in challenge and this week presents the first project dedicated week. Projects are real world specifications focusing on concepts recently covered in class. The first project in the .NET curriculum is a Customized Framework project. Project specs are handed out the ...read full article»

Networking tool: Tweepi.com

What will you do with today's deafening 14 million valuable tweets? Are you following the right people to receive the messages relevant to your career development?

Networking resource: Plaxo.com

Plaxo focuses on bringing together professional and social contacts into a single list, available from any computer or web-enabled phone. Do you use Google GMail? Plaxo easily brings in those contacts as well as those you may have in an email program at your workplace.

Networking resource: Google Buzz

Google Buzz offers a flexible way to share your current status, to hold live discussions of any length, and to reach out to a network that already exceeds 25% of Twitter’s amazing volume.

Networking Resource: youare.com

Currently, several dozen websites offer free services to help you network. How many of them are you using? How many of them would you like to use? Within the Career Development Dish, this series of blog posts will consider networking resources one at a time. We will begin at youare.com