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- Take this survey: Hiring in a RecessionToday
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Web strategist Jeremiah Owyang is asking his readers to complete a survey on “Hiring in a Recession.”
Here’s Jeremiah’s motivation:
One of my goals in this new year is to help support the community around me. As a result, I’m launching a survey to find out how people recently got their job, in an effort to understand the skills, ways to find jobs, and other tips from those that have landed jobs.
Like you, I’m sure, I’m also seeing talented friends and colleagues losing their jobs left and right in this down economy. Here’s hoping the data from this survey will offer a clearer picture of the job-hunting and hiring processes during recessions.
Disclosure No. 1: My employer, LiveWorld, is a client of Jeremiah’s employer, Forrester Research.
Disclosure No. 2: I was asked for input on this survey before it went live.And if you’re on Twitter, please retweet this: “@jowyang wants you to take this survey: How did you get your job? http://budurl.com/GetYourJob“
- Creating social media guidelines for your employeesJanuary 7
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Yesterday, as part of a comment thread to a blog post by Dawn Foster about the potential value of corporate blogging, I shared the highlights of LiveWorld’s Social Media Content Guidelines.
It only makes sense that I do the same in this space.
Why we have guidelines
As a company that’s all about online social networking and community building, LiveWorld has plenty of employees who regularly communicate across the social web — here on SocialVoice, on their personal blogs, on client sites, on Facebook, etc. It’s a natural part of our DNA.
Sometimes we’re representing the company in an obvious way by the nature of what we write or comment about on social sites. On other occasions, we’re producing seemingly unrelated content around own hobbies or personal interests (movie reviews, gardening, family lives, our own athletic accomplishments, etc.) — but we’re mindful that our work is always a reflection of the company as a whole.
We created these guidelines both to support the talents and online freedom of expression of LiveWorlders and to reflect the best interest
- Have you graded your 2008 predictions?January 5
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All sorts of 2009 predictions have been popping up on blog posts (and in magazines and mainstream media sites, too) these past few weeks. I’m guessing you’ve read at least one or two of them? (If not, check out the crystall-ball gazing submissions that Peter Kim compiled.)
But until about an hour ago, I hadn’t read a single entry from anyone assessing his or her forecast for 2008.
Enter Forrester Research analysts Jeremiah Owyang and Josh Bernoff (disclosure: my employer, LiveWorld, is a Forrester client), who actually play the roles of professors and grade each of the 7 predictions they had made for last year.
Really, I applaud Forrester for owning up publicly on where it seemingly missed the boat (the team was right on, though, on several fronts, including the expectation of the growth of the community manager position [something
- Unique tagging in DeliciousJanuary 2
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Jason Falls offers a helpful post today on how to do intelligent tagging on the social-bookmarking site, Delicious, and I thought that augmenting his list with two tricks of my own might be helpful:- Create a special tag for all blog posts you leave comments to. I use Commented (simple enough, right?). This enables me to track the conversations I’ve jumped into around the web, and then to check back in on those comment streams from time to time. (Yes, there are other tools, like coComment, that are meant to offer similar functionality, but I’ve found them all unreliable and buggy.)
Delicious isn’t an overly flashy site — though its current design is markedly better than its previous incarnation — but
- Two tips for generating blog discussionsDecember 31 2008
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In a recent podcast episode of Conversations with Mzinga, Liz Strauss offers two recommendations for bloggers who want to generate rich(er) comment-thread discussions:
- Leave your blog posts “unfinished.” Don’t complete every thought, idea, or subject that you write about in a post, lest you leave your readers with nothing of their own to add.
- Ask the right question at the end of the post that moves people to respond. Liz says she can spend up to one-third of her blogging time crafting just the right parting question.
Sounds like good advice to me.
And if two blogging tips just aren’t enough for you today, then try 27 more from Chris Brogan on for size.
Flickr photo of Liz Strauss and Rick Calvert from Wendy Piersall’s Flickr photo stream.