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Just read the latest from Penelope Trunk. Do you know who is using social media? Gen X. The average Twitter user is in their 30s. The median age of LinkedIn is 40. The majority of people who are joining Facebook right now are over 35. This is because Gen X wants to meet new people [...]

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In support of Friday’s post on the end of the cubicle wars, I came across an article from Roll Call detailing the changing face of the organization. The article talks about 3 factors that will affect the way we organize ourselves in the coming years. Emergence of Ecological/Epidemiological View of Markets and Behaviors. Rise of [...]

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Great article from McKinsey Quarterly “When Job Seekers Invade Facebook”. (You will have to register). With the apocalypse upon us, we are seeing a huge rush to “network” via the social networking tools of the day. I love this quote from the article: “There are, of course, powerful economic reasons behind the trend. As sociologist [...]

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Was just catching up on my RSS feed and saw that Jessica Howard from UpMo quoted my Networking is Good For You post from January 14th. I’m pretty excited. I just recently got turned on to UpMo. Jessica continues the topic of extracting long term value from your network in her post: Getting Feedback: Let’s [...]

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Excellent and relevant post from Scoble on socially networking yourself when you are out of work. Clean your facebook contacts. No one cares where you went to lunch. stop twittering about it. blog about what you know

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Rajesh Setty has a great post over on Tom Peters’ site listing the massive confusion around personal branding. This is something that I am coming to grips with lately. I believe in the Brand You. I believe in knowing yourself: your skills, what you excel at doing, what you LOVE doing. I also believe in [...]

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UpMo posts a follow up to their study of elite networkers that forces a few powerful issues. The larger your network, the harder it is to create powerful advocates. Advocates are defined as people that can help you. Help. Not hurt. Are their people in your network hurting you because they are really just acquaintances [...]

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Hannah has turned me on to upmo.com Link to a page on their site that lists 3 networking email templates. You could easily use them as a phone call script as well. Templates: Getting Reconnected Job-finder Intro A Thankful Request I would lose the “I’m incredibly busy right now” line from the Job-finder Intro template. [...]

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Hannah linked to a study by UpMo.com on the habits of elite networkers. She linked via facebook so I don’t feel like I am repeating anything. It’s an interesting article that shows the linkages between networking and career success and income status. There are some good takeaways from the article: 1. Network. Do it. 2. [...]

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Linked from Tom Peters….this is a post from Advertising Age: What to Do When Your Friends Get Laid Off. 1 – be a friend. 2 – network – put them in touch with your network. twitter, facebook, linkedin. 3 – collect everyone you know that has been laid off into a group. share. help. It [...]

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