Social Media Marketing

Summary of my notes from Cindy Pain’s presentation on getting the most out of LinkedIn, presented at the Seattle School for Visual Concepts on April 9, 2009.

A quick summary of three favorite web-based tools for managing projects. Affordable for freelancers and scalable for bigger businesses. Simple and easy to use, too.

Harrison Barnes’ blog entry today was a great piece about how some people can’t commit to what they’re doing and they dabble their lives away. We once had a friend who dabbled in everything. His partner said if he were a superhero, his name would be The Piddler. Sure, we all start some things that [...]

10 Ning Networks to Help You Land Your Next Job

Try out Twitter Job Search to find listings in your area. I am finding that there are jobs posted on Twitter that never make it to job boards of any kind. Why? Twitter has a smaller audience than job boards Twitter is usually a more technically sophisticated group Twitter is social media Twitter’s free TwitterJobSearch.com [...]

Getting interviews is great but what do you do to make the interview great?

Recruitment: A broken and degrading process that needs to change « CEO Ideas An intro to what sounds like a promising change in how to conduct your job search. The entry has one thing right: submitting resumes to “Careers@Company.com” is the same as tossing them into a blackhole. There are too many others going that [...]

Good at social media but not ‘experts’ | Juice Digital. The term “expert” is overused and one that begs challenge by its users, aside from a precious few. With the outbound marketing techniques rapidly falling away, many marketers are scrambling to redefine and reposition themselves with new monikers that keep their resumes marketable. The risk, [...]

ABC News follows a family in Seattle who were impacted by recession after layoffs from Microsoft.

Sister Myotis on Why Typing on a Phone Don’t Make No Sense