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Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants.  Read the full story and watch Zuckerberg on GMA at ABC News Continue Reading →

Never means never.  I’ve been reviewing resumes for several years for MENG and have never (that word again) seen a functional resume that was worth considering [A functional resume organizes information by skill sets and accomplishments rather than the more standard specific positions, titles, and reverse chronology.]. A functional resume immediately communicates to an executive Continue Reading →

MIT Professor Sherry Turkle wrote a powerful opinion piece in this past Sunday’s New York Times Sunday Review in which she draws a sharp distinction between conversations that take place face-to-face, in the real world, and connections that get made online through social networking sites. Continue Reading →

The leader of Google’s effort to develop self-driving cars was in the Motor City on Wednesday to send a message that the Internet company is looking for partners to bring its innovations to market within the next decade.  Read the full story at The Wall Street Journal Continue Reading →

  Originally posted at Mengonline.com Reviewing more than 125 resumés for MENG members during the past four years, I discovered that many could be improved easily. These eleven improvements are taken from my recent MENG webinar, “How to Improve Your Resumé in Sixty Minutes,” which is available to members at mengonline.com where you also can Continue Reading →

Apple  released an integrated tool to remove Flashback, malware designed to steal user information that was found to be present in more than half a million machines just last week.  Read the full story at CNET   Continue Reading →

Google’s unofficial corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil.” Unfortunately, that motto can actually get Google’s customers in trouble when it comes to accidentally deleted information. Here’s what Google’s new, unified privacy policy says they do when you delete content from any Google service: “We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information Continue Reading →

Starbucks is planning to offer $5 off a $10 Starbucks gift cards through Google Offers Wednesday in what is sure to be a very popular deal. Read the full story at Mashable Continue Reading →

Groupon, Inc.,the largest provider of daily deals online, reported a “material weakness” in its financial controls and said fourth-quarter results were worse than previously stated because of higher refunds to merchants. Read the full story at Bloomberg Continue Reading →

I joined Pinterest this week!  Yes, you can now follow me on the fast-growing, lady-centric, thing-collecting social network under the name JordoPC. That’s not why I’m writing this though.  I’m writing to ask a simple favor of websites and social networks: Can we please stop connecting everything to Facebook? After waiting twelve hours for my Continue Reading →