Are You Looking for a Job? 10 Tips from Jeff Altman’s Look Me Up

August 17, 2012 by

Are you looking for a job? In his book, Look Me Up: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Social Networking Yourself to Job Search Success, recruiter Jeff Altman shares some job search tips. If you are not using social media as part of a job search strategy you need to start now to get found by recruiters. On your LinkedIn, add your email address beside your name to make it easy for recruiters to contact you. Delete all inappropriate photos and comments from your Facebook account and ask you friends to remove any inappropriate photos they have uploaded of you. On Twitter, search for people for are using the keywords that are relevant for … [Read more...]

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4 Web Resources to Help You

July 6, 2012 by

Here are four web resources to help you save time and be more productive! Internet Scout Report: For at least five years, each Friday I receive the Internet Scout Report newsletter, and inevitably there is a piece of information that I find interesting. As the name suggest, the publisher scouts the Internet and brings the reader interesting websites with the most amazing information. The information spans multi-disciplines. You can quickly scan the newsletter to see if there is a website that you’d be interested in. Tweegram: A web utility that allows you to write a 140 character message and insert it as an image into your social … [Read more...]

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Mentor Yourself With Nathon Gunn, CEO, Social Game Universe

February 9, 2012 by

Interviewee Name: Nathon Gunn, CEO Company Name: Social Game Universe Website: http://www.socialgameuniverse.com  Avil Beckford: Tell me a little bit about yourself. Nathon Gunn: I am the CEO of a company called Social Game Universe and I also started another company called Bitcasters, which is still going. I’m an entrepreneur, and an innovator and I’m very passionate about creating new things. I work in new media and technology. Avil Beckford: What’s a typical day like for you? Nathon Gunn: A typical day for me is spent answering a lot of emails. At the moment we’re producing a number of products, so I have … [Read more...]

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Mentoring in Moments at Socialize Toronto

January 30, 2012 by

I frequently talk about mentoring occurring in moments, and this was evident at mediabistro’s Socialize Toronto conference last Friday. Profound conversations can take place over seconds and minutes. By watching conference attendees you could tell by the look on their faces that it was worth their time to attend the conference. People were not shy about asking questions, and they were interacting with each other during the breaks. You could feel the upbeat energy in the room. People who had only known each other online, now had the opportunity to talk offline. Jim Hedger shared some great Search Engine Optimization tips with me during a … [Read more...]

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Adventures in Learning: DIY Mentoring Program, Episode Three

December 19, 2011 by

This is a series of posts on how to create your own personalized mentoring program. In the first instalment, we looked at how to determine your mentoring needs, and in the second we looked at a variety of mentoring models and asked you to make note of the ones that would work in your situation. To create your personalized mentoring program, you have to understand your needs and know what your options are before you can move forward. In this the final instalment we will help you to pull things together. This may sound surprising to you, but two major reasons why mentoring programs fail are improper fit between mentors and protégés and the … [Read more...]

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