Why Facebook Gets My Lovin’

I have a new desktop, and it’s NOT from google. Of all things, it’s a social networking site that actually delivers on the promise of what that means–a simple, fun way to keep tabs on people you know and people you care about.

Yep, it’s Facebook.
In the last few weeks, I’ve been so passionate about Facebook [...]

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Why Classmates.com Has 18 Months to Live

We’ve all seen the ads for the site, and they offer good services to help class reunions go off easier, but classmates.com (owned by United Online, which has an office in Orem) is failing its users in classic web 1.0 fashion: You gotta pay to play.
I believe they are MASSIVELY missing out on the chance [...]

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Jobster Makes Networking Fun

There’s something wrong when you wake up in the night thinking about a website. Especially if it’s something work-related.
But what Jobster has done with the social networking site has made it easy and fun to not only add yourself, but broadcast yourself–and find other people you may be looking for.
The site absolutely has a [...]

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Do you “Get It” ?

When it comes right down to it, one of the hardest things for a recruiter or hiring manager to determine is not what’s on a resume (resumes are not valuable on their own, and it’s too easy to find “resumes”, if that’s your goal).
The hardest thing to learn about a potential hire is who the [...]

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Personal Branding 2.0

I had the pleasure, today, of attending a great, healthy discussion and training on Using Technology in Personal Branding presented well by Jason Alba, jobseeker advocate and founder and CEO of JibberJobber, an online tool to help you actively manage your personal network–CRM style.
He videotaped the event, so I expect to see something online soon [...]

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LinkedIn Enabling Spam

LinkedIn Jobs is helping to fill your inbox with spam these days in the name of networking.
Dave Mendoza says it like this:

The manner in which Linkedin:Jobs is configured allows for abuse in the amount and redundancy of emailed requests, and broadcasts to too many of the wrong people and most often when in the hands [...]

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Networking 2.0 — Open Letter to LinkedIn (and their competitors)

The simple truth is that I am a raving fan of LinkedIn–I love it.
However…
About 2/3 of the time when I invite someone to connect with me on LinkedIn, they say something like, “Sure. But does anybody really use it?”
Someone else said, “Isn’t that just like a geek dating service for jobs?” Ooh. [...]

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