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LinkedIn New Events Feature
By Lynne Williams LinkedIn has rolled out another new feature. You can now post an event from your desktop or on the app on your mobile device. I just created my first ever event on LinkedIn and am so excited about this, so I had to share. Here is how to access it from your…
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Cool New LinkedIn Feature for Jobseekers
LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature for “Open to Job Opportunities” that can be hidden and seen only by recruiters or can be publicly visible. Finally, there will be a freedom of choice. This feature is not yet rolled out to everyone, so some will have to wait. This is great news for jobseekers,…
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Norristown’s Joey D’s Has No Intention of Giving an Inch to Super Wawa
Joey D’s on Main in Norristown is standing up to the Super Wawa that opened a block away on Main offering delicious food and a small gas station vibe, writes Maria Panaritis for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. The owner Joey Valerio purchased the gas station from an old Italian family in the eighties and added food as…
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Haverford School Turns Campus Construction Into Teaching Opportunity
Haverford School has turned a campus construction site into a teaching opportunity to enhance lessons and expose its students to new job prospects they may have not otherwise considered, writes Maddie Hanna for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Last week, a group of seventh-grade students spent their science class on the construction site of the new middle…
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How to Make a Voice Recorded LinkedIn Message
Did you know you could make a voice recorded message on LinkedIn up to one minute? It’s a dictated message; not voice to text and you can send it to an individual or a group, as long as they are 1st degree connections. First thing’s first – check your profile settings in LinkedIn to make…
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Delaware County Leadership: Shaun Elliott
Shaun Elliott, the President & CEO of the Greater Philadelphia YMCA, the Conshohocken-based organization with 195,000 members, 5,000 employees and the Rocky Run and Havertown YMCA branches, spoke with DELCO Today about growing up in Canada, his passion for basketball, his earliest jobs, and how he developed an entrepreneurial spirit. Elliott also discussed joining his…
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Why Getting Noticed on LinkedIn Is Important for Your Career
By Lynne Williams Do you realize that there are over 645 million people on LinkedIn and how important it is to be on this platform for your career … AND be active? Every second of the day, two people join LinkedIn. This is a place where you can establish your brand and tell your career…
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1918 Flu Epidemic That Killed Nearly 13,000 Philadelphians, a Reminder That, Right Now, Things Aren’t So Bad
By Ken Knickerbocker The sky is falling. What is wrong with this world? I wish I could turn back the clocks and live back when things were better. Or everyone’s grandfather’s favorite line, ‘the county is going to hell in a handbasket!’ You’ve undoubtedly heard these phrases – or some variation of them – from…
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Talents of Backhoe Operators on Display at Aqua Pennsylvania’s First-Ever Backhoe Challenge
The often-overlooked talents of backhoe operators were on full display last week in Newtown Square, where Aqua Pennsylvania hosted its first-ever Backhoe Challenge, according to a report from 6ABC. Precision and patience were the names of the game as backhoe operators from Aqua Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of Bryn Mawr-based Aqua America that serves more than…
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What is Commercial Use Limit on LinkedIn?
By Lynne Williams If you have a free LinkedIn account, you may have received a warning that you were approaching your commercial use limit of 300 searches in a month. Your searching ability may actually come to an abrupt halt if you reached the maximum views by viewing too quickly. This happens because you have…
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Battle of the Brandywine, September 11, 1777
Publisher’s note: The terrorist attack on New York City and Washington DC in 2001 is one of four tragic American events to happen on September 11th. In addition to the terrorist attack 18 years ago, the Battle of the Brandywine in Chadds Ford in 1777, the first death of the civil war in Christiana, 30…
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Delaware County Leadership: Oliver Bass, President, Natural Lands
Oliver Bass, the President of Natural Lands, a non-profit organization that saves open space, cares for nature, and connects people to the outdoors in eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, spoke to DELCO Today about being born in Arkansas and growing up in a rural town in East Texas, where he spent the majority of…
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DELCO Day Tripping: World-Class Kid Fun Just 90 Minutes from Your Front Door
Who would have thought Lancaster County would be home to one of the world’s top five kid’s parks? That’s the ranking Dutch Wonderland received from Amusement Today magazine. It also gave Dutch Wonderland its Golden Ticket Award in 2019 as “Best Family Park of 2019.” Dutch Wonderland, “Where kids RULE,” has been charming little ones…
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From MONTCO: Topgolf Gets Preliminary OK to Tee Up in King of Prussia
By Mark Schiele Hey local golfers, it’s time to set up tee-times. Topgolf has received a go-ahead to proceed with building a facility in Upper Merion Township. The site is located at what had been referred to as the “Holy Donut,” located at 588 N. Gulph Rd. In a county that loves golf, it appears…
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Juggling Act: Balancing an MBA with Life, Career and Family Priorities
You have a full-time job. You have young children. You have aging parents. For many undergraduate and graduate students, juggling a graduate degree, especially an MBA, and family life can be a challenge. Doing the work-and-school juggle isn’t easy, but it’s possible to excel at both. Here are 5 tips for handling work and college…
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Delaware County Leadership: Colonel Stuart Helgeson
Colonel Stuart Helgeson, the Superintendent and Chief Operating Officer of Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Radnor, spoke with DELCO Today about growing up in Connecticut and gravitating toward lacrosse, which got him into Penn State, where he had “too much fun” and thus learned hard lessons on discipline and goal-setting. Helgeson later walked…
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Two Local Business Leaders Recall Their Woodstock Experience
By Denise Romanelli Fifty years ago today, in the little town of Bethel, NY, Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm became the location of one of the most pivotal movements in music history which we know as Woodstock, aka “An Aquarian Exposition: Three days of Peace and Music.” The concert lineup had 32 of the most…
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75 Years After He Earned It in Battle, Glenolden WWII Army Veteran Awarded Presidential Medal
John “Jack” Callahan, a 54-year resident of Glendolen, was awarded the Presidential Medal 75 years after he earned it for his military service in World War II, writes Peg DeGrassa for Delaware County News Network. Callahan had served in the Army from 1942 to 1946. He was a part of the Fifth Army Division of…
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