This goes with my "Use Google Forms in your blog or website" post.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Use Twitter to Find a Job
Useful links to use or pass along.
jobshouts.com/
Do a search on your area or the job you are looking for. It's kind of a "Best Match" but look through the results and some matches come up. Worth a look.
www.twitterjobsearch.com/
A lot of jobs came up with this one, but what's better is that it gives you a lot of places to follow on Twitter.
www.jobangels.org
Mentors to help other people get jobs. WOW! If you have a job, this would be a POWERFUL way to help another person.
Check out jobangles.org and make a difference.
Let us know if anything happens for you!
jobshouts.com/
Do a search on your area or the job you are looking for. It's kind of a "Best Match" but look through the results and some matches come up. Worth a look.
www.twitterjobsearch.com/
A lot of jobs came up with this one, but what's better is that it gives you a lot of places to follow on Twitter.
www.jobangels.org
Mentors to help other people get jobs. WOW! If you have a job, this would be a POWERFUL way to help another person.
Check out jobangles.org and make a difference.
Let us know if anything happens for you!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Wrestling with Twitter
It's the latest trend - TWITTER!
Ok, so you figure out what it is, a 140 character instant message blasted to followers... but what do you do with it?
It's social networking! Use Twitter and you can "get to know people", based on their 140 character "tweets". I hope that doesn't put any undue pressure on you! Don't tweet some crap and screw up your business deal.
If you Tweet about lounging with the Sunday Times, will the faithful think you're skipping Services? Will cat lovers look at you the same when you gush about a puppy?
I've been messing around with computers since the days of BBSes and 300 baud modems on the Commodore. Twitter made me feel like I was back in 1985 again.
"So you have to go on the Internet."
"I go to BBSes. Ain't that it?"
"You go on the Internet and you surf from place to place."
"Surf... like a surf board? I have to keep redialing?? This is Wisconsin, I don't know about surfing!!"
"I don't know. You can make a web page."
"What's a web page?"
"I don't know, it's like a flyer on the board in the grocery store. People can read it."
"Read what? Who's gonna sit in the house all day?"
Well, I learned to "think outside of the box". My friend above didn't and that's why he doesn't use a computer like a vital organ.
So I get on Twitter and start following people. What do they write???
- A lot of people write about Twitter. I picked up a lot more info about Twitter applications. I'll be sharing more on that.
- Spreading the agenda. People can communicate and mobilize. Twitter your friend instead of a DM (Direct Message) and you can educate all your Tweet on the concept of dolphin-free tuna.
- RT (ReTweets) Ok, I don't know how I feel about this one. There's some folks who do RT a lot but do you want to discourage them and have them start a potty training tweet fest? There IS a lot of pressure to write a 140 character ice-breaker at a party of people you can't read (get real life social and physical cues as to their mood.) ... Oh, and I notice you guys who send out the same tweet 4 hours and 8 hours later. The first few times I thought my amnesia was reoccurring. ;)
- Tweet the mundane. Glad to hear you're hitting the Post Office! :) I'm guilty myself:
phoenix2000us Posted at 4:29pm, Mar 26, 2009 from Web
Just got a recorded call from COSTCO. Cranberry nut mix recall, salmonella. Ate it but 5*s for the warning!
Ha ha. I'm always tempted to go mundane with a touch of TMI.
This snippet from the New York Times says it well:
An unabashed user of ghost Twitterers is Guy Kawasaki, a new-media consultant with more than 80,000 followers, who is full of praise for the two employees who enliven his Twitter feed, often posting updates while he is on stage addressing a conference.
“Basically, for 99.9 percent of people on Twitter, it is about updating friends and colleagues about how the cat rolled over,” he said. “For a tenth of a percent it is a marketing tool.”
- Share useful information - Actually, all snarkiness aside, I've been tossed "pearls of wisdom" from all of the people I follow. A lot of people ARE being generous with their expertise and there is a lot to be learned.
Follow the right people on Twitter, learn from their links and you can gain a lot of knowledge.
I just hope I have enough time and enough brain!
http://twitter.com/phoenix2000us
Ok, so you figure out what it is, a 140 character instant message blasted to followers... but what do you do with it?
It's social networking! Use Twitter and you can "get to know people", based on their 140 character "tweets". I hope that doesn't put any undue pressure on you! Don't tweet some crap and screw up your business deal.
If you Tweet about lounging with the Sunday Times, will the faithful think you're skipping Services? Will cat lovers look at you the same when you gush about a puppy?
I've been messing around with computers since the days of BBSes and 300 baud modems on the Commodore. Twitter made me feel like I was back in 1985 again.
"So you have to go on the Internet."
"I go to BBSes. Ain't that it?"
"You go on the Internet and you surf from place to place."
"Surf... like a surf board? I have to keep redialing?? This is Wisconsin, I don't know about surfing!!"
"I don't know. You can make a web page."
"What's a web page?"
"I don't know, it's like a flyer on the board in the grocery store. People can read it."
"Read what? Who's gonna sit in the house all day?"
Well, I learned to "think outside of the box". My friend above didn't and that's why he doesn't use a computer like a vital organ.
So I get on Twitter and start following people. What do they write???
- A lot of people write about Twitter. I picked up a lot more info about Twitter applications. I'll be sharing more on that.
- Spreading the agenda. People can communicate and mobilize. Twitter your friend instead of a DM (Direct Message) and you can educate all your Tweet on the concept of dolphin-free tuna.
- RT (ReTweets) Ok, I don't know how I feel about this one. There's some folks who do RT a lot but do you want to discourage them and have them start a potty training tweet fest? There IS a lot of pressure to write a 140 character ice-breaker at a party of people you can't read (get real life social and physical cues as to their mood.) ... Oh, and I notice you guys who send out the same tweet 4 hours and 8 hours later. The first few times I thought my amnesia was reoccurring. ;)
- Tweet the mundane. Glad to hear you're hitting the Post Office! :) I'm guilty myself:
phoenix2000us Posted at 4:29pm, Mar 26, 2009 from Web
Just got a recorded call from COSTCO. Cranberry nut mix recall, salmonella. Ate it but 5*s for the warning!
Ha ha. I'm always tempted to go mundane with a touch of TMI.
This snippet from the New York Times says it well:
An unabashed user of ghost Twitterers is Guy Kawasaki, a new-media consultant with more than 80,000 followers, who is full of praise for the two employees who enliven his Twitter feed, often posting updates while he is on stage addressing a conference.
“Basically, for 99.9 percent of people on Twitter, it is about updating friends and colleagues about how the cat rolled over,” he said. “For a tenth of a percent it is a marketing tool.”
- Share useful information - Actually, all snarkiness aside, I've been tossed "pearls of wisdom" from all of the people I follow. A lot of people ARE being generous with their expertise and there is a lot to be learned.
Follow the right people on Twitter, learn from their links and you can gain a lot of knowledge.
I just hope I have enough time and enough brain!
http://twitter.com/phoenix2000us
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
BOB MARLEY - THREE LITTLE BIRDS
Don't worry about a thing...
Every little thing is gonna be all right.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Paul Harvey helped me win $8000
Paul Harvey died. Listening to him made me some money.
Read what the New York Times says here.
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70s. My Father would listen to his "plain talk" newscasts every day at a quarter to Noon.
A decade or so later, Mr. Harvey started his "The Rest of the Story" series.
One such tale told about an officer on an atomic submarine, sent to fix a malfunctioning reactor, succeeding at the task and averting disaster.
But later in the Navel officer's life people really don't know about that. They love him because he built houses for poor people and brought some peace to the Middle East. Others hate him for the discussing the malaise of America. This man is former US President Jimmy Carter.
Fast forward a few decades...
So I'm in New York City, sitting on a stool surrounded by a circle of a hundred people or so. Meredith Vieira is sitting across from me and says, "Mark, for $8000, which US President attended the US Naval Academy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter?"
Out the things that race through your brain as you sit on the surreal set of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" Paul Harvey's contribution to a 98% educated guess kept me in the game to win $25,000.
Thank you Mr. Harvey and THANK YOU, US Navel Academy graduate, President Jimmy Carter. Two examples of how the actions of one person, can affect so many lives.
And now you know - the Rest of the Story.
Read what the New York Times says here.
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70s. My Father would listen to his "plain talk" newscasts every day at a quarter to Noon.
A decade or so later, Mr. Harvey started his "The Rest of the Story" series.
One such tale told about an officer on an atomic submarine, sent to fix a malfunctioning reactor, succeeding at the task and averting disaster.
But later in the Navel officer's life people really don't know about that. They love him because he built houses for poor people and brought some peace to the Middle East. Others hate him for the discussing the malaise of America. This man is former US President Jimmy Carter.
Fast forward a few decades...
So I'm in New York City, sitting on a stool surrounded by a circle of a hundred people or so. Meredith Vieira is sitting across from me and says, "Mark, for $8000, which US President attended the US Naval Academy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter?"
Out the things that race through your brain as you sit on the surreal set of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" Paul Harvey's contribution to a 98% educated guess kept me in the game to win $25,000.
Thank you Mr. Harvey and THANK YOU, US Navel Academy graduate, President Jimmy Carter. Two examples of how the actions of one person, can affect so many lives.
And now you know - the Rest of the Story.
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