Look Who’s Joined Facebook
If you are someone who thinks of Facebook as strictly a gathering place for college students and the uber young adult, look again. Earlier this month Facebook announced that its fastest growing segment of new users in recent months is women aged 55+. According to Hitwise, there has been a big shift in audience demographics over just the past year. While users aged 18 to 24 represented a 42% share of the Facebook audience in January 2008,...
Read MoreTop 25 Social Media “Networks”: Entrepreneurs and Job Seekers’ Resource
If you are an entrepreneur or job seeker one of the best ways to network, market, and gain audience for your product or service(s) is to leverage the power of social media networks. The following is a list of the top 25 social media “networks” as ranked by traffic (visits per month) in a great retrospective article by Andy Kazeniac of Compete.com “Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over the Top Spot, Twitter Climbs.” This is a retro...
Read MoreSerious About Getting Hired: Get Blogging
Last week I received a phone call from a small business owner who called because she wants to get more business. She told me that she realizes that she needs to launch a blog. This woman gets it. When I started telling her about the various things she can do to deliver value through her blog articles, she chuckled and said, “Wow, that’s a lot of work…yet what I am doing now is not working for me!” Dean and I are...
Read MoreSocial Media and Web 2.0: Job Seekers Your Resume is No Longer Your Marketing Tool
“Hiring managers are using the Internet to get a more well-rounded view of job candidates in terms of their skills, accomplishments, and overall fit within the company”–Rosemary Haefner Vice President of Human Resource Careerbuilder.com Susan and I presented our workshop “Web 2.0′s Impact on Job Seekers: The Changing Roles of the Resume, Job Search, and Job Seeker” at CSIX this past Tuesday to a packed...
Read MoreSelling Yourself: Have You Embraced the Paradigm Shift?
It’s no secret that Dean and I embrace and promote Web 2.0 and social media as powerful opportunities for networking, building relationships, and moving your message of value to potential clients, employers and business affiliates. This new trend and paradigm shift in how business is done is being embraced at the highest levels of our new government. The Obama team has launched Whitehouse.gov, their platform to communicate...
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