Resume Down, Blog Up

I saw the feed headline from Bob Warfield, who referenced Zoli Erdos, who in turn quoted Seth Godin - all to the effect that the resume is not only useless but counterproductive. As I said last month, your blog is both your resume and your job search.

Blogging - The Professional Campaign

This is an email I sent to someone I was trying to help get started on the Web. He’s a profound thinker with much to say and write, and wants to evolve from his current profession into a new one that supports his real interests, as a corporate keynote speaker and writer on his specialized themes.

See what I had to tell him, and please offer your insight and comments.

Blog On Company Time

I was scheduled to give a presentation at South by Southwest Interactive this year, on a presentation called “How to Blog at Work Without Getting Dooced.”

At SXSW Interactive we’re going to expand on the Dooce lesson and show the reasons why every employee and employer must blog, and furthermore how to do this in almost no time. Better than this, and what I was going to talk about, we’ll show why the employee blogger is now star talent in today’s market conditions and could actually become the official company blogger.

Employees Should Blog At Work

Blogging is a skill, and so is networking, and both skills are coming to be in high demand in modern companies.

If you’re a boss you should know that your employees who blog on company time may turn out to be the future heroes of the company, if you can find ways to harness their talent and drive.

What you have to do as a manager is find those people who have talent and drive in the area of blogging and social networking, and put them to work for you…

Why Every Employee Should Blog

The resume is dead, long live the blog. You should be blogging, and you should be blogging deliberately in order to create a real record of your accomplishments.

You blog to show yourself as you most intently strive to be, and you connect with other people who have close degrees of connection with you. This is your success network.

One day you may be hired FROM your success network, by someone who values you for your attributes. And you may equally be hired FOR your network, for the value of the people you know who can provide solutions.

In Praise Of The Internet

Scott Rosenberg writes of Mitch Kapor’s retrospective on the early Internet, and how the sceptics were proved resoundingly wrong, and how the idealists were in fact the realists, and what this may say about the present and the future.

Rapid Assembly of Facts During the California Fires

With the fires raging in California, which of the many ways of getting information stand out as the best in these times?

Business and Entertainment Mashups

From David Berlind’s Mashup Camp we’re featuring two great mashups - one is a useful business app tied to Salesforce.com’s database, and the other is chime.tv, a beautiful interface with collections of video content from a variety of sources - including your own - all in one player. Take a look…

Customer Reviews

Customer reviews are priceless - who could doubt it? Even if they’re bad they allow the wide-awake executive to respond and adapt, or at least be informed; after all we’re not in charge of our reputation, other people are. Here are a couple of interesting items in this area…

Mashups for the Business Crowd

Here’s a mashup we like. If you own 25,000 kilometers of fibre network running through twelve European countries, obviously you’ll mash up the AutoCad design data with the GPS grid (tricky), and then you’re ready to expose it through a map display system like Google Earth (easy).

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