One of my goals this year was to have a full article dedicated to me in The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. This is because I was told by someone that that is where JibberJobber would get credibility – not through any articles I wrote on my own.
I’m happy to share an article that just went live today, which has turned into one of my favorite articles… the title is Boosting Your Sales With Social Networking. How cool is that?
I recently posted on the LI blog about hitting almost 2,000… in fact, it was at 2,058. You can see the braggy post here.
… now, we just need to break 1,000!
When I first login I have the IM client set to automatically login, and I get the MSN news, gossip and all that stuff open in it’s own window. I always click over to “News” to see what’s going on.
But this one caught my eye:
I love it. It’s just missing one simple word. But this went to probably tens of millions. This is portraying their brand.
Why do I find and care about stuff like this? Probably because of the time when I presented new brochures in a board meeting at my old company and the chairman crumpled the pamphlet and threw it at the wall when he found something he didn’t like.
I got the impression we were mickey mouse, and that other real companies would never, ever make mistakes like that.
… alas, I love finding the big companies making mistakes.
Not that I’m immune from it, as I know my mistakes are (and will be plentiful), maybe I just like knowing that nothing is as perfect as it seems.
I’m using real info on this, outting my new Twitter buddy. Actually, we met on Saturday in person, and I doubt Clint would care if you know he and I hang out (well, hung out for 20 minutes :p).
Here’s the e-mail I get when someone follows me on Twitter:
I would so love it if they also told me:
Oh yeah, include the stats, also. That way if they are following 3,000+ people and have 4 people following them I KNOW I don’t want to be #5.
Evan, seriously,this would take your programmer like 20 minutes to do. Please make my life just a little easier!
I love it. Because I know my mistake like this is coming.
You can see the link here -it’s a CNN page.
On Twitter I mentioned something about outsourcing parenting responsibilities… as I was headed out to take my kids to a babysitter. Notice, I said outsource, not offshore.
My buddy Tammy Lenski sent me this video:
That is excellent reporting 😉
One of my online buddies and JibberJobber members sent me a couple of article that I really enjoyed… totally different but really cool:
Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool – I like this because it’s inline with my new CEO Training for CEO’s of Me, Inc. I’ll be referring to it in those sessions.
How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time – This is about privacy online. Love the first two paragraphs to set the stage (I didn’t know that about Ford).
Thanks NHR!
I’m confused. And this is just too good to pass up.
I read a great article on CNN by CareerBuilder – the worst states for job hunting. Check out the language at the end of the post:
In case you can’t read it, it says:
Copyright CareerBuilder.com 2007. All rights reserved. The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority
My favorite part is right above this warning, disclaimer, or whatever legal people call it, that says:
This is as good as when Scoble got kicked out of Facebook for using a tool, or better, when Harry Joiner got kicked out of Facebook for using Facebook’s importer.
I just got a call from a guy who is putting on a local job fair… a very different kind of job fair, and wants me to be involved. I don’t have any experience with job fairs (I should say, any positive experiences), but am excited about what they are doing.
Anyway, I asked him, “how did you find me, anyway?” He said he googled job help. So I went to see what I could find. I saw something that was freaking cool…. check this out:
Now, this isn’t as good as being the real second result, but we are right there… I don’t know how else to get into this position, other than nurturing relationships (okay, so it helps to have a product that isn’t cliche).
Thank you Alison!
Sometimes life just cracks you up… one of my favorite bloggers is showing up this way in my tabs (I have 14 tabs open right now):
Wait! It gets better!  I just went to comment on a post and the popup window defaulted to a certain size, and look what I see:
