Social Media Marketing

Adopt social media into your everyday life and do it smartly and effectively. Social media will help you find what you need and want with minimal effort.

Why social media matters for the job seeker or those who think it is a passing fad. Why you should adopt social media tactics and tools into your job search and daily life.

By becoming more comfortable with networking, I learned a lot about myself. More importantly, I learned that many other people had a lot to learn as well. To boost my job search, I taught myself how to use social media in a smart way. Then I saw how many people were not using it at all. That was how the idea was born for my book.

Listing of monthly Seattle networking events I plan to attend. Join up with me if you want.

Networks Too Big for Their Own Good – NYTimes.com Interesting article with a great concluding sentence: “…they may be overlooking extremely talented individuals whose only weakness is that they don’t have the right name to drop.” This piquant statement expresses frustration that I felt along the way in my job search. I have fixed this [...]

The Search – Accentuating the Positive After a Layoff – NYTimes.com

We operate a number of consumer-oriented websites, and we’re looking for someone who can create web copy that sparkles. If you’d like to write for audiences as diverse as moms, business travelers, college students and sports fans, then you’ll love working with us. We need someone who can start right away, can accept ongoing project [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]