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More Articles from Networking Information: MORE RESOURCES: Site: Yahoo! News Search Results for networking Greater Rochester Area Partnership for the Elderly members learn about speed networking (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Greater Rochester Area Partnership for the Elderly featured a seminar on speed networking tips. Social Networking Will Be a Target for Hackers in 2010 (Enterprise Security Today) More sophisticated attacks on social-networking sites are expected in 2010, McAfee says. The number of potential victims will attract hackers to third-party tools, McAfee said, including URL services such as bit.ly and tinyurl.com. Social networking changes college recruiting (The Washington DC Examiner) NEWPORT NEWS, VA. ? Hampton University student Jasmin Morris was bored over the summer when she decided to look for other members of the newly admitted freshman class on the popular social-networking Web site Facebook. Smart Networking For Job Searchers (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) If you're one of the millions of Americans who lost a job in 2009, you've probably started networking. IPO watchers like networking sites (Winston-Salem Journal) The pipeline of initial public offerings for 2010 looks promising as private equity firms look to cash in on their investments after coming back to the nearly defunct market in the fall. Social networking is changing the way we travel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water tubing and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in town. "It's been unbelievable," said Azaria, a singer who lives in San Francisco. CCCC holds holiday networking gathering (Times News) Carbon County Chamber of Commerce recently held a holiday networking gathering at the Lehighton American Legion. Among the sponsors were, from left, Pat Reilly, Kathy Schwick and Dianna Ahner, all of Mauch Chunk Trust; Michael Heery, CEO; Erica Heery, Eye for Design Studio and Old Mauch Chunk Model Train Display; Marlyn Kissner, Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber; David Althouse, CCCC chairman; and ... Online: Sheriff's Office on 2 networking sites (El Paso Times) EL PASO -- The public may now follow the El Paso County Sheriff's Office on two social network Web sites, sheriff's officials said. Non-profits find benefit through networking (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) Local nonprofits may need to rely on a support system a little more often these days. TV, social networking and the Web can mean soft addictions (Richmond Times-Dispatch) The last thing Jen Towner does before going to bed is log into her Facebook page. The first thing she does after waking up is virtually check in with her friends again. She keeps her page up and active all day, every day. It?s a ritual, and Towner makes no apologies for it. Suzanne Ricks? habit is TiVo. After working all day as director of the day-care center at Four Mile Creek Baptist Church in ... Site: networking - Google News Our addiction to social networking, Facebook, MySpace is innate - Daily 49er
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