Technology Tuesday: Will Facebook get you hired or fired?

What's on your Facebook page?  Or more importantly - who?

Now more than ever, employers are researching job candidates online.  Employers look to sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to find out more about you - not only your work background, but also your personality, your behavior and how you present yourself online.

So what exactly are employers looking for when they check out your profile?  According to a recent study by social media monitor Reppler, employers might hire - or fire - you based on:

• Photo albums and tags
• Pictures or mentions of alcohol or drug abuse
• Poor communication skills
• Inappropriate or discriminatory comments or posts
• Complaining about previous employers

To learn more about who's checking out your profile - and what they're looking for - check out this article on Mashable: How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates [Infographic]

Can't Keep Track of a Flash Drive?

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, and share them easily. Any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your phone or iPad, and the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it easy to share with others.

A Basic Account is free and allows you to save up to 2GB of data. That's the equivalent of a cheap flash drive, and you don't have to worry about leaving it in the computer or at home.

The Best Kisses in Literature

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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Flavorwire rounds up the most swoon-worthy, spectacular kisses ever committed to print.  Did your favorites make the list?

Check out the list here at Flavorwire! - 10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature

Black History Month: GALILEO resources

Romare and Nanette at the Neighborhood Arts Center. Neighborhood Arts Center photographs series. Jim Alexander collection. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.

Ranging from the Civil Rights Digital Library to Community Art in Atlanta, GALILEO has pulled together a great collection of its resources to highlight video clips, timelines, historic photographs, biographies and articles relating to Black History Month.

For the full list, follow the link: GALILEO Resources for Black History Month

Review of "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan

God is Love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. This is the theme from Francis Chan's most famous book, Crazy Love. I really like this book because Francis Chan points out the flaws in the modern day church and how to fully live out God's true purpose in your life. He digs deep into Christian theology and helps us figure out the amazing love God has for us; to help understand that God, Himself, is the embodiment of love. Francis writes on how the storms that are allowed to swell in our lives are there so that we will turn our eyes to our Heavenly Father, but we are so focused on the problem that we don't notice. God is relentless and He will never give up on you, and all of this is backed up by research and Scripture. I recommend this book to everyone.

Randy Smith

A Review of Ted Dekker's "Thr3e"

This book was incredibly captivating; it had many twists and turns in it and I never saw the ending coming. There’s a young man, named Kevin, who is becoming a preacher at a Christian school; on his way home one evening, he gets a strange phone call where a man tells him a riddle and then informs him that if he cannot solve the riddle in 3 minutes his car will be blown up. The man also states that Kevin needs to confess his sins to the world by solving the riddle. Confused, but not taking any chances, he manages to cause mass chaos trying to get his car off of the road before it explodes. The caller calls again and tells him that this was only the first of a series of test. Before he knows it, he’s wrapped in a life surrounded by agents of different companies around the country who all want to catch a well known serial killer known as the “Riddle Killer”; one of the agents is a female CBI agent who is also Kevin’s best friend, Sam, and one other is an agent from the FBI who is the sister of the Riddle Killer’s last victim, Jennifer. They must dive into Kevin’s past where they discover his family’s abuse, his friendship with Sam, the young Riddle Killer and most all his sin. Together the three of them get wrapped in a world full of confusion, bombs, riddles and the killer’s obsession with the number three all in order to obtain one goal: to keep Kevin alive. The book was constantly keeping me guessing and changing my mind about who the riddle killer was. I would definitely recommend this book.

Lisa Smith
PALASA President

Black History Month: Monumental Speeches

We're starting off Black History Month one day early, by highlighting a series of powerful speeches in African American history.  Ranging from the historic words of Sojourner Truth up to the present day with President Barack Obama, this selection features speakers who through their bravery, charisma and conviction helped shape the course of American history and civil rights.

Speeches are available in audio, video and text forms.

Sojourner Truth
Speech: Ain't I a Woman? (1851)

Jackie Robinson "This I Believe..."

Frederick Douglass 
Speech: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? (1852)

W.E.B. Dubois
Speech: Niagra Movement Speech (1905)

Jackie Robinson
Speech: This I Believe... (no date)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Speech: I Have a Dream (1963)

Malcolm X
Speech: Speaking Out on Race (1964)

Shirley Chisolm
Speech: For the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)

Barack Obama
Speech: Inaugural Address (2008)