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One of My Favorite Websites… Ever!

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I have to let you know about one of my favorite websites – it’s an essential tool in the kit of any manager, employee, or job seeker.  It’s AskAManager.org and it is run by Alison Green.  It’s basically a daily advice column for anyone who works.  She helps readers navigate looking for a job, interviewing, working with others, managing employees and generally figuring out how to work in the real world.  Her style is  honest – refreshingly honest.  And she has one of the best communities of readers I’ve ever encountered on a blog.  It’s a very active community, with commenters from all over the world, representing a diversity of viewpoints.

If you have a question to ask about something you are encountering at your job or in your job search, Alison probably has an answer for you.  Totally worth the daily read.

Disclaimer: I have not been compensated for this review.  I am truly just a huge fan of her blog.  Give it a try and tell me if you don’t instantly become a fan too.

Great online resource for learning new skills

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I recently wanted to brush up on my HTML skills.  I knew basic HTML, enough to edit an existing HTML file – change colors, add a border to a table, edit the font, etc., but I had never really learned HTML from beginning to end.  It has also been several years since I did any work with CSS.  So I was looking online for a good resource to refresh my

Codecademy

knowledge of web programming languages.  I found a great website, Codecademy, that will teach you the basics of coding – it’s self paced and you get out of it what you put into it.  The user interface is really easy to use and follow the lesson plan.  The lessons themselves are good sized bites of information and are organized in such a way that a busy professional can pick up and put down the lesson work easily without losing their place.

I have already completed both the HTML and CSS learning modules, and am currently working on the JQuery module.  The extra nice thing is they give you some projects to work on to practice your new skills.  They offer more advanced programming languages as well, such as JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python and PHP.

Disclaimer:  I have received no compensation for this review….  In fact, Codecademy probably doesn’t even know that I wrote this review.  I just love to bring attention to a website that offers a great service to help people learn new things.  This is a wonderful example of how knowledge should be shared online.