Social Media Marketing

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 [...]

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.

LinkedIn: LinkedIn Tools: JobsInsider This is the best tool I have found lately for uncovering job leads – and finding out who knows who. With the LinkedIn JobsInsider toolbar installed to your browser (Internet Explorer for Windows; Firefox for Windows or Mac), when you visit a job board site a side panel opens. From there, [...]

If you are currently interviewing, what are you finding the conditions to be like? Is the process tougher than usual? Is the company looking for super-specific requirements? Is the process taking longer than you remember? I’m looking for comments and feedback by those who are actively interviewing, and to hear what’s happening with you, what [...]

Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation & the Web » Blog Archive » Expand Your Brand & Career: Open a Twitter Account. Right Now. A great primer on the how-to, the why and the return on incorporating social media tools like Twitter into your life. Build your personal brand, expand your company’s brand, have discussions. Follow great [...]

10 ways to triumph over a job loss – 10 Tips – TODAYshow.com. I’m a sucker for lists of 10 but there’s good nuggets in this one, plus video segments. Pass it along!