Michael Jackson, The Matrix and the Future of Information

July 13, 2009

Remember The Matrix? You might recall how people watched events unfold as an endless stream of code running down a computer screen. Reality doesn’t always play out like the movies, but increasingly true life is reflecting that fiction.
Instead of complex code, we’re consuming massive amounts of bite-sized, real time information also known as status updates [...]

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You Are the New Media

June 14, 2009

It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of new social media technologies like Twitter, Blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Squidoo or whatever the service dujour. However, from time to time it’s good to take a step back to fully understand how everyday people are using these tools to redefine and sometimes replace cultural institutions we [...]

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Round III: Your Resume is Dead. Long Live Your Blog!

June 8, 2009

Last week I detailed the top five arguments in defense of the resume. That post was the result of almost 100 comments offered through various discussion threads from my LinkedIn groups. Today I’m outlining the top four arguments for making blogs a must-have supplement to the two-page resume we’ve all grown to love and hate. [...]

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Round II: Your Resume is Dead. Long Live Your Blog!

May 31, 2009

My last post proclaiming, “Your Resume is Dead. Long Live Your Blog!” prompted almost 100 comments (all of them on LinkedIn, since I committed a sin and didn’t enable comments on the post). My thinking behind that argument was that the analogue resume we now depend on will eventually go extinct, whereas blogs are the [...]

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Your Resume is Dead. Long Live Your Blog!

May 26, 2009

Welcome to the hyper-competitive job market of The Great Recession. Finding a job today is about consistently hitting it out of the park. That means taking advantage of opportunities to do what most of your competitors have not. I suggest you start by rethinking your static two-page resume and starting a blog instead.
Three reasons why [...]

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@TheCareer100 Must-Follow Mavens on Twitter

May 15, 2009

I’m please to announce the launch of @TheCareer100, a hand-picked collection of the 100 most influential personal branding gurus, power networkers, resume and interview experts, job boards and fellow executives on Twitter. If you’re new to Twitter, I hope you’ll find this list an invaluable resource for quickly getting up to speed on the who’s who of career management. I expect that even veteran Twiter’ers will find some undiscovered gems.

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9 Tips to Get Executives Started on Twitter

April 13, 2009

If you’re like me, you’re weary of joining yet another social network. You’re on LinkedIn and maybe even Facebook, that should be enough. Wrong. Bottom line, if you’re not micro-blogging on Twitter you are missing out on one of the most powerful and easy to use, not to mention fun social media tools today. I took [...]

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3 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn Groups

March 30, 2009

A few weeks ago I started a LinkedIn group for the Pacific Executive Network (PEN) and immediately realized that Yahoo! and others offer superior group sites with greater functionality. Having said that, LinkedIn groups offer some unique benefits that I believe many of us should be taking advantage of but probably are not. Here are [...]

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How I Got the Job—Part I

March 16, 2009

We embark on this long strange trip called transition on our own terms. And even though my trip was unique, I learned a few things along the way that I’d like to share with you, the friends and fellow networkers that propelled me towards this ultimate goal. I split this blog post into three parts to [...]

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Introducing the Pacific Executive Network (PEN)

March 3, 2009

I am pleased to announce the formation of The Pacific Executive Network (PEN). Like this blog, PEN is focused on helping senior executives better utilize technology to grow their networks and create more meaningful professional relationships.
PEN was formed a couple of weeks ago by a group of 10 likeminded executives at the DBM offices [...]

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