Just about an hour ago, I was thinking about reaching out to Robert Scoble, who is a true star of social media and one of the first people to get me interested in blogging (which was perhaps the first ’social media’ tool available) at the Blog Business Summit held in Seattle in 2006. I wanted [...]
The Story of Joe "The Connector" Kennedy's Job Search Thru Social Media
Category Archives: Social Media
Help Me Help Overlake Service League
I’m happy to report that I’ve signed on to help Overlake Service League with their social media marketing and you can help me help OSL.
Overlake Service League has been helping children and families in Bellevue for 99 years! They do a lot of great work – including feeding the hungry, giving scholarships to deserving people, [...]
30 Days Into Personal Social Media Campaign to Find an Opportunity
My personal social media campaign to find my next opportunity began 30 days ago. It has evolved quite a bit over the past month – helped me make some big decisions, some new contacts and had some great successes. One thing that is very strange to me is that more people are not using social [...]
Social Media 201 Conference Getting Noticed
The Social Media 201 Conference I’m involved in organizing is really getting some notice. The official press release was sent out a couple of days ago and the results have been pretty good.
Are Twitter Users Being Censored or ‘Muted’?
On a call this morning with speakers from the Social Media 201 conference, a concern was brought up that some user accounts with large numbers of followers have been suspended from Twitter for no apparent reason. Evidently still more users have been “muted” so that their posts don’t show up. Is Twitter censoring it’s members? [...]
Five Things You Can Do to Help
Now that I have greatly narrowed my focus to looking for an opportunity as a community builder and evangelist, there are some things you can do to help if you are so inclined.
1) Please let me know if you hear about any opportunities that might be a fit.
2) Check out PearlTrees.com – sign up, play [...]
Changing the Name and Changing the Game
I’ve decided to change the name of this blog/project from “Social Media and the Job Search” to “Using Social Media to Discover The Next Opportunity”. Not a huge change, but as someone I know says “words are culture” and this more properly describes the goal of the site.
Update: Two Weeks into Social Media Campaign to Secure Employment
A lot has happened in the past two weeks since I launched my personal social media campaign to find employment. I don’t have a full time position yet, but there are opportunities that are opening up – I can feel that some good things are going to be happening soon.
Facebook to Start Charging Users? It’s Not Going to Happen
This morning I received an email from one of my Facebook friends (someone I went to high school with) inviting me to join the Facebook group “NO! I WILL NOT PAY $3.99/MONTH TO USE FACEBOOKK STARTING JULY 9, 2010! JOIN”. Of course right away I thought – “of course I don’t want to start paying [...]
Good News / Bad News Unintended Results from Social Media Campaign to Find Employment
Since starting my personal social media campaign to find employment here in Bellevue, on the Eastside (of Lake Washington), in the greater Seattle area or anywhere in the world, I have had a lot of people sending me job leads, telling me about companies that are hiring and even a couple of people who have [...]
