For those who celebrate, Merry Christmas. And to the rest, I wish you a safe and happy holiday season.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Weekly Reads 12.19.2008
This entry was backdated to the week when i read and collected these articles. The articles are as valuable today as they were a week or so ago.
What's in it for Your Followers? How to be Useful on Twitter - Pretty self-explanatory. If you want to be successful on Twitter you have to have to provide value to your follower. Darren discusses that in this blog post.
Best 100 Twitter tools - After you learn how to be a useful on Twitter, using of these tools will be help be more affective at providing value to your followers. If you think 100 tools is too much, try these fives suggested by Darren.
Visual Quick-start Guides to Political movements - Want to start the next succesfull online campaign? These videos will help get started. If you're still have having problems, you may want to think about hiring the pros like these guys.
Five Ways Web Professionals Should Be Proactive In a Recession - I was recently laid off but lucky I was able to find a a gig. I some friends going through the same things that I did and other who are unsure of their position in the current economic crisis. In this post Jeremy, discuses how web professions can be proactive is such economic times.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The Josh [Silverstone] Burrito now available to all @ Visions... go try it!
During my time of unemployment, one of the things I tried to do is to catch up with friends around this city/suburbs. One such friend is Josh Silvertsone. Josh had been ranting and raving about a restaurant where he had become a regular located in downtown Bethesda. The place's name is Visions (blog). I met him there for lunch on a Friday and little did I know Josh and Tony (twitter), the chef , had been working on introducing a new menu item name after him. Well it's official, the Josh Burrito is now available to all (see the announcement below). You should go try it. Have had one one I can confirm that that it is delicious.
p.s. If you're foodie and want to chat with a chef on a regular basis, make sure to connect with Chef Tony, he is all about social media.
Technorati Tags: Silverstone,Josh Silvertone,Josh Burrito,Visions,Chef Tony,Tony Marciante,Bethesda,Restaurant,Eating out
Monday, December 08, 2008
Thank You
The past week was a crazy one; the end of another semester and the start of a new gig. Now that life has calmed down a bit, I wanted to take a second to say a big thank you to everyone that helped me during my job search. My job search ended late last month when I accepted an offer for the position of Web Strategist at DCI Group, where I will be helping our clients navigate through the social media interweb. In these tough economic times, I was lucky enough to received multiple offers. However, I would be lying if I said I did all the work that got me these offers. In fact it was quite the opposite. During my search, a number of people graciously volunteer their time to proofread my resume and cover letters, help make video resumes, offer career advice, make introductions on my behalf,be a reference, and pass my resume along. Between writing cover letters and submitting my resume for various position, I attended a number of social media/technology events around town where I met an incredible number of nice and smart folks using the web to bring attention to some great causes. I will work to keep in touch with as many of them as possible. But more importantly, I hope to work with some of them (in pro-bono capacity, of course) on some of the projects that they are currently undertaking.
The entire job search experience was very humbling and I'm very grateful for all the help I received. Again Thank you.
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