social networking

LinkedIn: Check Your Self Employed Info

March 30, 2010

A co-worker asked me today about a strange link on my LinkedIn profile.  I had listed as a former position “Free Lance Web Development (at Self Employed)” to show the years I was home with my children, and the work I did during that time. LinkedIn requires you put a Company Name with each position [...]

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Add-This: A1-Webmarks (What is it?)

October 21, 2009

A1-Webmarks…. if you are like me, you’ve never heard of it before and just think – jeesh!  another site to have to worry about. So let’s check it out. At first glance I see that it was very recently added to Add-This (mid-late October of 2009).   They define as “Webmark” as follows: A webmark [...]

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Marketing Your Website: The Rudy Factor

April 1, 2009

This past weekend I watched the movie Rudy, a true story set in the 1960′s about the life of Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger and how hardwork and perseverance has it rewards.  This story has been on my mind these past several days.   Rudy sets off to accomplish the goal of getting into Notre Dame and [...]

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Tweet It Forward

March 26, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post that got a lot of attention titled Pay it Forward. The post, inspired by a tv commercial, was very meaningful to me because I truly believe that the simplest of gestures can change someone’s life. The movie that came out years ago was truly an inspiration to so many, [...]

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What’s That You Tweet?

March 26, 2009

In recent weeks I’ve gotten more serious about my relationships on Twitter – who I follow and why. For whatever reason (and I’m truly humbled), I’ve gained a few hundred new followers in the past few weeks, and that number continues to grow. What’s daunting to me about that is that I take my followers [...]

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Random Thoughts on Social Media

March 26, 2009

I am getting old… As confirmed by a friend of mine today. I had the perfect idea for a blog post, and from the time I went to bed last night – I cannot remember what it was about. So I’m left with random thoughts which I will share. Random thoughts on Social Media, Careers [...]

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Getting to Know Your Networks

March 26, 2009

Facebook Connections So I recently created a page on Facebook dedicated to Artichokes and in just a week, I have over 100 followers of this page. At first I felt it was just an experiment to see how many people would find it if I worked it through various channels on Facebook, Twitter and yes [...]

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