It's Labor Day Weekend, which marks a time of new beginnings for many as schools start back up around the country. Speaking of new beginnings, we thought it would be a good time to share some helpful tips on looking for a job online.

Gone are the days of getting the morning paper, scouring through and circling ads, making phone calls and mailing resumes. These are the days of online portfolios, professional profiles, emailing resumes, automated job searches and online networking.

We know that our Verizon Community members ask the best questions.  We also know that our Verizon Community members are extremely helpful and give the best answers.  If you have Verizon FiOS TV and/or FiOS Internet or Verizon High Speed Internet and are opted in to receive emails from Verizon,  you may have been noticed that forums posts have been featured in the Verizon “Spotlight” email.  In today’s blog post, you will see some of our community member posts that have been featured in “Spotlight”.

Each year, April 22nd, or "Earth Day" marks what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement, on this day in 1970. The nation was coming out of the turbulent 60s, and as a whole starting to become more and more aware of our impact on the environment, and how to be "green," or more environmentally conscious.

So…I was looking through some release note and I realized that our friends over at Lithium Engineering department snuck in more macros for us. 

I thought I would share a quick tip on where to find them and how to use them =) 

Once I got my Droid, one of the first things I did was to add my two Yahoo accounts. With the Yahoo Mail app, I could check both with the touch of an icon, and get a notification when I get new mail on either account. I definitely had to cut down on a lot of the email newsletters I get, as I follow a lot of social media, writing, and entertainment news.

I diverted some of these newsletters to my Gmail so I would still get them, and disabled the notifications to Gmail so my phone wasn't beeping all the time. I also found a fantastic app called Pulse, which allows you to add numerous news feeds under one interface. Now, with the touch of an icon, I get all my news in one place, but still get the email newsletters over in Gmail.

The Droid integrates well with Google and Gmail, so I began to better utilize my Gmail calendar and tasks with my personal and business calendars and to dos. I still wanted a better way to track to dos, and use an app called Astrid. Astrid synchs with Gmail tasks, so you can add tasks in Gmail or in Astrid. They can be organized into lists, assigned dates, prioritized, have notes added, and even tags.

I am working towards a new focus for 2011, trying to use the technology on-hand to be more efficient and stay more connected. I was struck by social media guru Chris Brogan's recent blog Make Kitchen Table Companies with Cloud Plus Mobile followed soon after by a Brad McCarty blog on how smartphones have become "notification devices."

I had a PDA for while, but I kept letting the batteries run out and I'd lose all my data.

My first cell phone was a hand me down from my Mom, in the $5 a minute cell phone days, and looked like the phone you'd see John Wayne using as he was calling in an air strike in some World War II movie.

I had a Captain Kirk Flip Phone for too many missions; I got a Razr long after Razrs had stopped being cutting edge. After I got my Blitz I found out it was marketed specifically for teenage girls to text their girlfriends with.

We've all had it happen. You labor over a post or a reply only to see it vanish into the ether because of a power outage. Poof! Gone!

We can help you hang on to your drafts by saving them for you every few seconds. The new Autosave Drafts feature saves a draft of your messages, replies, blog posts, ideas, or comments at a set (configurable) interval.  Here's how to use it.

Thousands of Verizon customers browse our community forums daily looking for answers to commonly asked questions about their services. Let's continue to keep our community as useful and answers as easy to find as possible. You can do this by simply reminding each other to mark questions that get solved as “Accepted Solutions”.

This week we wanted to remind you about a way that you can talk to each other privately, appropriately named Private Messaging. This may be old hat for some of you, but others might not even know that it exists on our Community Forums.

This week we want to let you know about a new feature in the forums you may not have noticed yet: Advanced Search. But before we discuss it, let’s take a quick look at the Basic Search, an important tool to use before posting that question!