Mitek Systems launches its Mobile Receipt application on the App Store. Mobile Receipt converts the photo of a receipt taken with the iPhone camera into a high quality image and, with a single tap, converts the data into a professional looking expense report. Mobile Receipt saves time, enhances productivity and can help speed reimbursements.
With unemployment rates near 10% and many young professionals searching for work, one recent graduate of Harvard Business School is doing his part to give individuals another way to stand out from the crowd. Mike McGlade, HBS 2009, created Zoosa, a website that gives professionals the opportunity to enhance their resume by connecting with nonprofit advisory boards and skills-based volunteer positions.
Zoosa aggregates the best social enterprise resources, including industry news and employment and volunteer opportunities, to create a single destination where professionals can learn about the renewable energy, education, and nonprofit sectors. While visiting Zoosa, individuals can create a social impact profile that highlights their professional skills, their offline actions, and their interests in certain social impact issues.
Sharing what you know, and getting paid for it, can be a great way to make a little extra money both during and after college. Fortunately, the web has made it simple to get in contact with, keep track of and keep clients for a wide variety of teaching opportunities as well as to simply share what you know with the world. Here are a few sites you can try out to let you share what you know for profit or just for the pleasure of educating others.
Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and for good reason. What started as a simple way to update friends about daily life has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and education. While many campuses are just picking up on the educational rewards possible with Twitter, there is still plenty of room to create new and exciting ways to use Twitter on campus. The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.
AOL names Stephane Panier head of Bebo’s global operations, responsible for scaling the social media network’s operations, advancing its global reach, and delivering an exemplary user experience to the company’s 24 million global consumers. Panier was previously VP and COO of Bebo. In his new role, Panier will report directly to Jon Brod, Executive Vice President, AOL Ventures.
“The past nine months have seen us create and deliver a more relevant and open social experience for our users across both new and existing markets, and I look forward to building on this foundation,” said Stephane Panier.