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Blog#2: Chapter 6

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 There are many benefits to being a part of a connected learning community, especially with personal learning networks. These networks help individuals accomplish a professional goal or a personal interest by allowing people to think deeper and gather more knowledge about a certain topic. Networks allow you to receive more information that you can use to help the people in your communities receive more information. Starting your own personal learning network has a lot of steps like who you should follow and making sure that they are trustworthy, borrowing from bloggers, and using social bookmarking.  The job is not finished after you make your personal learning network you have to keep it up to date by making sure you engage in conversation with people. If you do not the network has no purpose anymore because there is no relay of information back and forth. You also have to make sure that you are bringing in the right kind of people because the internet has a lot of bad people out ther

App Smackdown Project - ZipRecruiter

  ZipRecruiter is an app that anybody can use to help them find a job for a career or a part-time job when they need extra money. For this project, I went through how to build a profile and make it unique to help someone stick out from others for employers looking for someone to hire. ZipRecruiter also makes it easier to apply to jobs you are looking for to make applying for jobs a little less stressful than it can be. The messaging feature of the app, it makes the hiring process seem a little more personal where you are actually talking to someone about your hiring and making sure that you know everything before going in on your first day.  ZipRecruiter has over 110 million people using their services to help them get the job that they are looking for. The app itself is constantly changing to help make the process of getting hired easier and more efficient. Being able to link social media to a person's profile is very beneficial because it allows an employer to be able to see what