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social media

TMM Featured Career: Social Media Specialist

March 29, 2010

How many of you have already Tweeted and/or checked Facebook today? I know I have! Between Facebook, Twitter, Blogging - and now the Dailymile, which I just joined this weekend (friend me) - I spend a huge chunk of my free time on social media sites and I love every minute of it!
Well, [...]

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The Monday Meeting: How to get a job; non-traditionally

February 1, 2010

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It’s the digital age; cell phones, computers, social media and email are ruling the world. Everything is going online; including the traditional way of finding a job.
Picture looking for a job 20 - even 10 - years ago. You go around to businesses in town and drop off your PAPER resume. But is that the [...]

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This is why I love blogging

January 21, 2010

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Some people just don’t get blogging and what it’s all about. As many of you know, I’m currently in journalism school and so many people in that field seem to think that blogging is just a way for someone to get “published”. It’s really hard for people to wrap their heads around the [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Professional Goals

January 4, 2010

Having trouble setting goals for yourself? Follow the SMART method:

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Well, it’s that time of year again. New Year Resolution time. New Year, New You right?
Don’t forget that making professional resolutions - resolutions relating to your career  - are just as important as resolutions relating to your health and wellness.
Here are my Professional Goals for 2010:
1. [...]

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The Monday Meeting: The Online Presence of Gen-Y

December 21, 2009

I read Penelope Trunk’s blog on a regular basis, I subscribe to it in my reader and I can distinctively remember the Saturday morning when I first discovered it. I spent a good two hours scrolling through her posts and reading about everything from career advice to her abortions and miscarriages. I was fascinated that [...]

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What do you look for in a job?

September 18, 2009

Via twitter I stumbled on this blog post the other day: Trying to keep young employees from quitting? It’s not about money.
It’s an old post from Penelope Trunk’s blog, who is the creator of Brazen Careerist - which, by the way, is another social networking site that I am now a member of. Anyways, the post basically highlights [...]

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Wanna hear my voice?

September 16, 2009

Remember when I was interviewed by the BBC for writing this post. Well, go here and listen to the first clip on the post and you can hear me answer one of the questions from that interview! 
What do you think of my voice? When I was a kid I used to HATE talking on the phone [...]

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Social Media; more powerful than you think.

September 15, 2009

Something I’ve become really interested in lately is the social media; facebook, twitter, blogging, linkedin, wikipedia etc. and how these sites effects on our world, our careers and our personal lives today. I’m doing a directed study on social media next semester and I can’t wait. I think that it’s more powerful than we realize [...]

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