Your Personal Brand Online
You can’t control what other people say or think about you, so online there is always potential for less than flattering information turning up in a Google search conducted by your future boss. Rather...
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Although I didn’t set out to make it a focus of Muskblog, my repeated writing about online social networking sites resulted in it becoming a category, just like beer and venture capital. As I continue...
View ArticleBlog your way to a better career
Not bloody likely. Now I have one person in particular telling me I need to be on Twitter. I’m online too much. Usually it is reading dubious content, but at work I spend a lot of time Googling and...
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Blogging, Painting, & Slacking
Over the long weekend I did a lot of miniature painting, maybe too much. Combined with some guitar playing and my generally unhealthy lifestyle my back and my thumb on my painting hand were really...
View ArticleOnline Profiles
I’ve written extensively about online reputations, social networks, and the dangers of electronic communication. Alas some people are still just plain stupid and it is starting to cost them. I’m not...
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140 Characters to Rule Them All!
So it is Wednesday and I pick up the Globe and Mail and to read at Subway, I get to the Careers section and what does it advise? Tweeting! I’m still trying to blog my way to a better career, now I’m...
View ArticleIt’s not all…
…movies, miniature painting, and sleeping in. I play my guitar too. [drumroll][/drumroll] Actually I’m trying to do even more looking for a new job, but sometimes there just aren’t any new jobs to...
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TweetLevel/BlogLevel VS Klout VS Technorati
So sometime in the last 24 hours a Tweet appeared on my phone from one of Vancouver’s more famous writers talking about a tool released by Edelman. It so happens I know some people who work in the...
View ArticleHow not to write a cover letter
I’ve been unemployed for too long. As a result of this, I’ve written more cover letters than I ever wanted to have had to write. Now-a-days I rarely write a completely new cover letter, generally I...
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Who is Fussbett Sanitario?
And why do he and his buddies over at Caltrops.com find this acceptable online behaviour? Until this week I’d never bothered to read Caltrops.com or really look into who was running the website and why...
View ArticleHodgepodge of Links
There is so much crap that comes across my desk, virtual or otherwise I don’t know where to start. Why not a posting concerning the truth, from the great Church of the Customer blog. I’m sure there is...
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Latest Search Engine Referral Post
It’s my own fault I suppose, but how could I know? I should have left well enough alone, never mentioned it again, but I didn’t. I went and linked to it again and I believe it has been re-aired on the...
View ArticleWho is Michael Crook?
I don’t know. But I do know he has pissed off a lot of people. He sent Kevin Burton a DMCA Takedown Notice but apparently Michael believes in free speech. I googled him and the first result was...
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More LinkedIn.com Observations
Now I’ve written about LinkedIn.com and online social networks before, but once again I returned to the site after a few days or weeks absence and I noticed a few new things. One is the addition of...
View ArticleBlog your way to a better career (no really)
They mean it this time! Guy Kawasaki’s guest blogger didn’t go quite so far, but some are saying that a blog is the new resume, Resume 2.0 if you will. Maybe in some industries, but in some countries...
View ArticleGoogle introduces new online reputation management tool, Vancouver riots
This seems like big news. Big enough news that I got out of bed to write about it. Usually an announcement like this does not go unnoticed by me but what with the riots, the hockey game, requests...
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What Rick Santorum can teach you about online reputation management
Last night while lying in bed I finally broke down and read an article on Rick Santorum. The article was in the Globe and Mail and was entitled “Rick Santorum: A Republican menace or a messiah?” I had...
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Writing for your Future Boss
Jakob Nielsen’s advice on blogging holds up pretty well with the passage of time. Jakob Nielsen is considered by many to be the guru on website usability. He can also come across as dogmatic and...
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The Importance of Comments
So while procrastinating, I check out one more RSS feed, and I notice my name. Curious I head over to Thrasher’s Wheat to take a look. Apparently a comment I left has been elevated to full post status....
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Nurgle Nonsense
Now maybe I shouldn’t care what random people on the internet say about me. And for the most part I don’t. I do care what my friends and classmates think, that is why what happened during my MBA hurt...
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