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Productivity501 warns us to make sure that we don't waste hours figuring out how to do something that someone else can explain in 5 minutes.

He urges us to deliberately build relationships with people who have expertise in different areas than our own.

Offer to help them with your special knowledge, he says. Then they will want to reciprocate.

Problem:

This author is telling you, essentially, to set up an informal barter network for information sharing. The problem is that it comes in the guise of a personal relationship or friendship which really doesn't exist.

This amounts to using people for practical purposes.

Many outgoing people can do it easily. And, indeed many don't mind taking advantage of people, plain and simple. But lots of people don't like doing this. And they can't always offer something in return.

Moreover, often, you need a lot of preliminary knowledge before the expert can tell you something in five minutes. And the only way she can help you is to do the job herself. Or spend an age explaining it to you.

See also: How To Mooch

1. Hint that you need help.
2. Show a bit of pain.
3. When the offer comes, say something like "I don't know. Are you sure
   you can spare the time?" That shows you care about the donor. (haha)
4. Don't take too much.
5. Offer something in return when you can.

Boilerplate Announcement of New Job

From The Recruiting Animal

He starts off with a weepy goodbye but most of the time, he's telling you about his great new employer:

It is with sadness [yadda]... resign from XYZ... past year... great.... ABC.com reached out.... Director of Sales... Jobs category....

If you receive this message more then once [blah blah]....
Have a fantastic day!

The Big Deal with Twitter

Posted by Maureen Sharib
Tab Pierce, Director, Business Development at Security Innovation asks, over on LinkedIn:
OK...so what's the big deal with Twitter? I've had several people talk to me about joining. Which I finally did, but what's the big deal? People posting what's going on in their lives. We do that here with updates, it's done on Facebook and Myspace too. Am I missing something? I love useful tools, so I'm hoping someone can provide me with that aha! moment so I get it.
See all the answers (so far!) here.
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Marketing and Microblogging

1. The Personal is Professional
You create an online presence in microblogging (for instance on Twitter) by sharing a steady stream of mundane personal information with your "followers" or "friends". You promote yourself in the guise of chatting with friends.

2. Overshare
Another trick of the trade is "oversharing", telling your audience what you are doing all day long by churning out endless messages about where you are and what you're doing with photos and videos (if you have them).

3. Enhance Your Image
Online, it's easy to make yourself seem like someone special by publishing bits and pieces of made up life. The phony aura of success you create can be used to attract business.

Continue reading "Marketing and Microblogging" »

A Meaningless Introduction

Strategic Human Resource business partner driving initiatives designed to meet organizational objectives that attract, engage and retain talent.

Does that mean something?

A Better World. Yeah, really.

This guy's just full of sincerity.

I am an active Linkedin user and firmly believe that “there is something in everybody to add value to the society and make this world a better place to live.” With this belief I want to add you to my professional network so that we can be of a mutual help to each other. I am sure you will be benefitted after adding me in your network.

Mainstream Unaware of Twitter

Spoke to networking group of 77 "young professionals". No one had heard of Twitter. Cincinnati & early adopter not usually in same sentence.

Jennifer McClure (CincyRecruiter) May 22, 2008 on Twitter

Vote Re LinkedIn Referral Requests

The Marketing Headhunter says: "A 1st degree LinkedIn connection asked me to forward an InMail from a competing recruiter to one of the best online retailing executives in my LinkedIn network. I refused."

Did Harry do the right thing? Vote below.

Animal Show Wed NOON New York Time

Recruiting Animal Show
GUESTS: Harry Joiner Marketing Headhunter.com
Susanna Boyd, Candidate Research.com
Steve Burda, LinkedIn super networker

TIME: NOON Eastern Daylight Savings Time
TOPIC: Relations with other recruiters on LinkedIn
ALL CALL IN AND LISTEN INFO HERE

Animal Show Wed NOON New York Time

Jim Durbin - Recruiting Animal Show
GUEST: St Jimmy Durbin of DurbinMedia.com

TIME: NOON Eastern Daylight Savings Time

TOPIC: Recruiting on Social Media

ALL CALL IN AND LISTEN INFO HERE

READ ABOUT JIMMY'S WEBINAR:
REGISTER FOR HIS HIREABILITY WEBINAR

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