Notice I said join, not follow. This is another lesson that Jim Connolly taught me. You want people to JOIN you on Twitter not follow you. Follow sounds like you are setting yourself up as a magnet. Join suggests that you are open to conversation and relationship building on Twitter. What’s the goal of a…
Using social media in your job search has been a hot topic for a long time but many times job seekers use it ineffectively and even create the wrong impression. Let’s talk specifically about Twitter. How should you use Twitter for your job search? Frequent readers of this blog and the Marketing Results blog will…
I’ve been in business as Design Resumes for a long time. I’ve lived in Wausau, Wisconsin even longer. But until Sunday, for many people in Wausau, I was invisible. Now for those of you who read this blog regularly or know me from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or the many blogs I visit and comment on,…
I didn’t join Twitter on day 1 but I’m not a Twitter newbie either. I believe my first tweet was in October 2008. I learned Twitter the way I learn most things. I followed people who seemed to know what they were doing, read blog posts on how to do it and went on from…
I was just getting the computer running this morning, letting Skype update and then randomly sent a little note to one of my clients I saw online. Last he popped in, he was done with the third round of interviews and had an offer in process. So I sent him a Skype message: “Any News?”…
Yesterday, I mentioned that I am trying out a new networking service, Quora. I have been known to be very visible on social media, I don’t sign up for every new thing that comes along. A tweet from Jason Alba made me check it out. I remembered Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter (ValueIntoWords) mentioned Quora in her Career…
Disclaimer: this is simply my own research and experience in using Twitter. That being said, as an active user of Twitter since October 2008, I have made mistakes, learned from them, learned from other people’s mistakes, and learned from some of the best. Everyday I see both new and old users of Twitter misuse this…
Never in the history of job search have individual job seekers been so visible. AND never in the history of job search could you blow a job search so easily! During a rousing discussion between my husband and a group of young men (my two sons and two of their friends) I learned again how…
Jaclyn Wissmueller, from the Wausau law firm of Strasser and Yde, S.C., asked me to speak to the Brown County Association for Legal Professionals on how to use online resources like Twitter and Facebook to communicate. Jaclyn and I know each other from our church. She followed my blog since the Haiti earthquake when I…
Today it seems that everyone has an online presence of some sort: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, or blog comments. The growth of “social media” involvement expands daily and this leads me to my pet peeve of the day. What do you look like online? As I look at my Twitter stream, Facebook news feed, LinkedIn…