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Today’s jobcast features Information Technology jobs at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut. The hospital is now hiring for a variety of positions inside their IT department and here to tell us more about what its like working there are two of their techies…David Kavasansky and Greg Jordan. Learn more and apply at StamfordHospital.org. Download MP3 or [...

* Google to compete directly with Facebook, Twitter. * Barnes Noble's Nook now in stores. * Motorola Droid gets multi-touch update. * Super Bowl garnered 107 million viewers. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com Running Time: 2:13 File Size: 2.

93 million people watched the Super Bowl. If 1% of the people also commented online, almost a million people produced content. Pepsi did not advertise. Top Ten Super Bowl Tech Ads.

MediaFunnel interview is up; Marc Wright interview is coming; support Help a PR Pro Out; Michael Netzley's report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: What Vodafonedid when an employee sent an obscene tweet, Forrester stops analysts from using personal blogs to write about research; listener comments; music from Antiqcool; and more.

This month, ScholarshipPoints (www.scholarshippoints.com), an Edvisors online education company, reached a membership of 750,000 college students. This milestone comes just three months after surpassing half a million members. Through the free scholarships program, ScholarshipPoints will help students of all ages achieve their dreams of a college education by giving away up to $100,000 in 2010. To ensure funds are used for educational purposes,

Time 18:10 Alleluia the Mass Market is alive and well, we have rediscovered the masses. This is good news for all those companies that watched their mass market target disperse like cockroaches when you turn on the lights. Now the bad news, the path to reach them is through 1 percent of the people [...

* Avatar bootleg hits torrent networks. * Super Bowl commercials on CBSSports.com. * Venezuela, Mexico want to regulate Twitter. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com Running Time: 2:10 File Size: 2.

#165 Maximum Threshold : Interviews with Hugo Ferriera (Tantric) and Rod Black (Jet Black Stare) Overview: A much anticipated show was a great payoff. 2 great interviews by Hugo and Rod and the debut of the new segment Czars Travels made its play. There was alot of music played, requests were done, contest was also completed and overall a great show.

There's a new breed of smart entrepreneurs out there, and we talk to one of the real leaders. Jessica Herrin, co-founder of Stella & Dot joins us to speak about how she quickly built a multi-million dollar business using social media as its core.

http://thereiminute.com With the collapse of the mortgage market it is imperative that you look for outside sources to fund your deals.

http://thereiminute.com With the collapse of the mortgage market it is imperative that you look for outside sources to fund your deals.

wolframalpha.com stores information that is suited for computation, including information on dates, places, food, nutrition, health, medicine, chemistry and mathematics. It might be an essential tool for your business.

The deadline to request a waiver of the 2010-2011 Award Year penalty of Federal Work Study (FWS) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) for the underuse of 2008-2009 Award Year funds is February 12, 2010. A school can determine if it has received an underuse penalty by reviewing its Campus-Based Tentative Funding Worksheet for 2010-2011. If a school received an underuse penalty,

The NASFAA Monthly Status Report for December 2009 and Jan 2010 is now available on the NASFAA Web site. The monthly status report contains a monthly summary of NASFAA activities, future plans, and highlights from NASFAA staff. The report is released to the NASFAA Board of Directors and is then made available to NASFAA members. A username and password is required to access the report.

"Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders," New York Times reports. "But an aggressive lobbying campaign by the nation’s biggest student lenders has now put one of the White House’s signature plans in peril, with lenders using sit-downs with lawmakers,

The Department of Education has released updated editions of FSA COACH, both for domestic and foreign schools. These comprehensive and self-paced online courses, written at an introductory level, have been fully updated for the 2009-2010 Award Year. The courses are available on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) Web site.

As part of the changes to the student loan programs made by the Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005 (the HERA), Pub. L. 109-171, the origination fee for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans will again be reduced, as will the up-front interest rebate.

"In her eighth and final State of the State address last night, Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced her budget for the 2011 fiscal year would restore the Promise Scholarship and guard against further cuts to education," Michigan Daily reports. "However, Granholm did not reveal specific plans for funding the scholarship’s restoration. The scholarship was eliminated last November, when Granholm signed the final bills of the 2010 state budget.

Federal offices as well as some of Title IV processors and call centers will be closed on Monday, February 15, 2010 to observe the Washington’s Birthday Federal holiday.

This is not a plug or some third party affiliate cheer. I’m not one for the making money on the Internet crowd because those that scream that the loudest are old century thinkers in a new century world. Boo Hiss. I just signed up for The Third Tribe at the early adopter [...

* Facebook begins layout renovation. * Sirius XM app hits BlackBerry. * Webcam saves lost man. Read more at ShellyPalmer.com Running Time: 2:04 File Size: 2.

Remote Access Software allows access to another computer over the Internet. It is useful to provide help, to do demos, and for travel. I recommend crossloop.com.

When it comes to financing graduate school a lot of students wonder if it is better to choose a lesser-know inexpensive school or a more well-known expensive school.

Chris Christensen talk is available; Marc Wright interview is coming; Dan York's report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: blogging declines among teens and young adults, Toyota's PR crisis, Edelman study shows decline in trust in peers, Sun's CEO resigns via Twitter; listener comments; music from billy; and more.

"Concerned that too many community colleges are not offering federally subsidized student loans, the Obama administration sent a letter this week to community-college presidents from Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., reminding them of loan-forgiveness and income-based-repayment programs that make it easier for low-income students to pay back the loans," Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

"At a time when the Obama administration is promising to increase spending on grants for college students by tens of billions of dollars, it might seem ungrateful, if not a bit tone deaf, for some college officials to be sweating the proposed elimination of a federal program worth just $64 million," Inside Higher Ed reports.

"As I moderated comments Tuesday on a post about President Obama's proposal to increase Pell Grant awards, one dispatch stopped my cursor cold," The New York Times reports. "It read: 'This is absolutely the right direction and in keeping with my grandfather's original vision for the program.' It was signed, 'Clay Pell'. I reached out to [the late Sen. Claiborne Pell's] grandson, 27, a lieutenant and judge advocate in the United States Coast Guard,

"Gov. M. Jodi Rell Wednesday outlined a proposal to provide loan relief for higher education students who study certain fields and work in Connecticut after graduation," New Haven Register reports. "The amount of the student loan that is forgiven would directly correlate with the number of years graduates remain state residents.

The Direct Loan closeout deadline for the 2008-09 Program Year is July 30. This is the last processing day of the program year, so all school data must be received and accepted by this date in order to be included in a school's final Ending Cash Balance for the year. To be considered successfully closed out, the school must have an Ending Cash Balance of $0 and Total Net Unbooked Disbursements of $0, as reflected on the School Account Statement (SAS),

The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is now accepting applications for the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program, which helps alleviate the critical shortage of registered nurses.