Something that hadn’t occurred to me was the importance of building a network in actually getting some kinds of jobs. An applicant for a job in social media needs to be an accomplished user of social media, with friends and followers. It’s probably especially attractive if the profile of the friends and followers is similar to the target audience of the employer. When I stopped to think about it, the point was obvious. Would you hire someone to drive a car who didn’t know how to drive???
To me, the utility of a personal digital brand as you are career building is obvious. What about us older ducks? It still may be useful; think about your own situation. For some of us, it’s not. For
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So I found Dan’s Organize guidance especially useful. I had investigated Del.i.cious but I hadn’t become a regular user. I signed up and started using it over the weekend, and I think it’s going to be useful in both cutting down the clutter in my Documents file and on my messy desktop and, at the same time, enabling me to find things I need.
Now I have 3 buttons that let me easily tag the URL I’m on at that time, to look at my recent bookmarks, or to go to the Del.i.cious site to see what others are doing. There is also a
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As you can see, I’m bookmarking content for a current project in higher ed as well as content for classes and writing. This has just got to be easier than all those files and folders. It’s also going to be useful to see what others are doing in terms of similar content and tags.
I think I like this. Will I Distribute much of this content? I’m not sure I will, but I’ll probably do more than I’ve done in the past because this makes it so easy. I’m going to be happy if it just streamlines my work!
What applications of this good concept can you make to your work or to your creation of a vibrant personal brand--or both!?!
Excellent post. Delicious is also a great networking tool as well as a productivity tool. One handy feature is that you can display a portion or all of your bookmark links on your blog as a widget. This also makes it easier for people to add you to their Delicious network! For an example visit www.theschwartzcenterblog.com--a blog that I designed for a local non-profit. You can also add a link to your Delicious profile to direct visitors to your blog or other website. Jamie Rauscher--a former student!
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A good point that I forgot to mention, Jamie. It's especially effective on a highly informative blog like this one. Good job!!!
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