I read Shannon Seery Gude's post in reply to Jason Goldberg's comments as they relate to Monster.com being totally crap: Jobster's Jason Goldberg and the Monster.com User-Experience. A very good post I thought, fair and balanced reporting, Shannon is so foxy.
If nothing else, I learned what interstitial advertising is and already have a call in to my people to see how I can add this obtrusive – but clever – money-maker to my blog. Like Monster.com I guess, I take the view that my going to the bank trumps enhancing your online experience, forgive me please. It's those persistent voices in my head, nagging, nagging, nagging.
Similarly nagging is the tagging going on all over the place as recruiting bloggers begin to buzz around Jason Goldberg and Jobster like worker bees making money-honey. That's okay. In my efforts to create a profile – by way of investigative reporting of course – I unwittingly created yet another online persona where my peers now want to have me – the online, binary, digital me – as a "fan" or a "fave." I can’t make out whether I‘m being asked for a signature or an autograph. It's all so confusing. I’m just a blogging Baby Boomer, you know. An endorsement on LinkedIn would be fine. Really, I think it might be better. Any takers? Not impetuous enough?
Anyway, I’m flattered, y'all. One day I’ll get to tart-up my profiles on Jobster, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, Jigsaw, and wherever so that I can better manage my personal brand avoiding, one hopes, the conflicting impressions created by inconsistent messaging across multiple social networks. Just for good measure, when I do it, I'll give myself an MBA from some really swank university and maybe some previous experience raising billions of dollars for an obscure Web 2.0 start-up. You know, keeping it authentic.
In the meantime, to all of my fans and faves – don't be discouraged by my slow response reciprocating your support. I will get around to it. It's just that I’m going to be busy over the next few days getting my interstitial ads up.
