0 MBA Program Applicants, Beware of Your Facebook Profiles

It has been going around for quite sometime but maybe not everyone who plans to earn MBA degree in the future is aware of it: your Facbook profile matters. This is especially true with top business schools who, in their admissions committee, have some surveyors that might check into a candidate’s Facebook page.

Some directors from different universities have confirmed this recent strategy used in filtering applicants. Consuela Knox of Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University states that “Facebook can help us gauge someone’s personality and interests, and we use it to help determine fit.” The director of Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts, Nora Ganim Barnes, found in her study that 21% of colleges recruit prospects and gather information about them by using social networking sites. She says, “No one wants to be on the front page of the newspaper for giving a scholarship to a murderer,” she says. “Everybody is trying to protect their brands.”

What’s more, the search is not limited to Facebook or social network sites only. Blogs, forums, and even media sites—no stones left unturned—may also serve as information sources for business school or universities. Thomas Griffin, director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, says the school searches through the Internet, including Facebook and other sites, to see whether an applicant raises "red flags."

Some might denounce this but those schools and universities claim that they need to maintain their standards and thereby have to find the most suitable applicants. So, what should be done by those who interest in applying for MBA study program, or any program for that matter? Keep your accounts and profiles professional! Or at least appropriate. Not just on Facebook, Twitter, or any social networking sites, but other such as blog and media site also. If you think that will confine your Internet experience, well, this is not an encouragement but you can always make as many pseudonymous accounts as you like and under that “names” you can pretty much say or do anything as you like.

Source:
- online.wsj.com
- www.huffingtonpost.com
- businessweek.com

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0 The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True

In time like this, when jobs are scarce and many companies cutting out on their employees, being an entrepreneur is one of the most possible answer to the challenge. But entrepreneurship is not without competitions. Everybody wants to have their own successful business in almost every field. That’s why getting the “aha moment,” the sparkling idea, is essential, but without diminishing the need of a lot of efforts in making that ideas and dreams come true. This book explores exactly that processes and can be a great guide for they who want to not only survive in this difficult economic situation, but also thrive in it.

Description:
Donny Deutsch's hit CNBC show The Big Idea has put the spotlight on that ordinary moment and the people who have the courage and stamina to make their dreams come true.

Some people think a big idea is like a lightning bolt striking out of the blue that slams you in the head. But it's hardly ever like that….the idea that will make millions starts with an observation…A carpenter gets tired of almost losing a finger every time he slices a bagel. Bam! The Bagel Guillotine…Howard Schultz notices on a trip to Italy that there are coffee bars on almost every corner. Bam! Starbucks. None of them had a barrel of cash. None of them had a ton of experience. They had a big idea and the will to follow through.

In The Big Idea, Deutsch draws not only on his own tremendous focus and expertise, but on that of dozens of the successful entrepreneurs whom he has interviewed, to help you create your own enterprise.

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