Do You Blog, Twitter or Use Social Networking Sites to Help Promote Your Career?
Thursday August 28, 2008
I'm usually pretty fast to adopt new technologies, but I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I've been slow to jump on the social networking bandwagon. I joined Facebook a little while ago, but I haven't been very active. I like blogging, as I do for this site, but as far as Twittering goes, I'm not so sure I want to let people know what I'm doing throughout the day. There are some other social networking sites I know I should join, like LinkedIn, and I know I will do that very soon. Blogging, Twittering and using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn are becoming increasingly important career tools. If you aren't already using them, you should be. But, how can I tell you to do that if I'm not? So, within the next few weeks I plan to become more active on Facebook, join LinkedIn and maybe even start Twittering. I'll let you know how it goes.
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Hi Dawn. I too am new on the blog scene and I just read your blog on social networking, but am not sure if it really helps in promoting a career. I guess one has to be really active in this to get some sort of positive result!
It was an interesting article.
Have a good day!
Dawn, I asked myself the same question and so far, I believe LinkedIn is the most useful. Marci Alboher’s Shifting Careers Blog on the NYT last week had an interesting and helpful guest post about using Twitter. I just reviewed social networking sites for use in career exploration “Choose a Career First, Tweet Later”:
http://careerkey.blogspot.com/2008/09/choose-career-first-tweet-later.html
Bottom line: I don’t think Twitter is very helpful in learning more about career options. But once you decide on a new career, you might be able to use it. Like me, I’m sure you have limited time so you have to pick your social networking media. Right now, LinkedIn is about all I can manage and I know I’m not fully using all of its features.
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