Success In a Job Search Requires Embracing New Tactics

GovCon Career Webinar - Using LinkedIn
The world of a job seeker has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Gone are the days when we aggressively scanned the Sunday jobs section in the newspaper,and faxed off a dozen resumes to company HR departments. Today, there are new tactics and online tools that better equip job seekers for success in a
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Interview with Geebo CEO, Greg Collier

The growth of online classifieds has continued, even though online spending has diminished with the recession and bad press has plagued some online classified sites, like Craigslist. I had a chance to interview Greg Collier, CEO of Geebo, about how his company has fared over the last several months, his view of the industry and
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Is TV driving social media’s success? Or is social media driving out TV?

A colleague of mine forwarded an article by Mike Bloxham from the MEDIA Post blog, entitled “At a TV Screen Near you: Facebook and Twitter”. In this article, Bloxham refers to social media as having a “benignly parasitical relationship with TV” and that this relationship was somehow benefiting social networking sites. This irks me a
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Twitter: Real-time alerting and media solution

A lot of buzz recently has been how Twitter was faster to alert people around the recent earth quakes than news organizations. This has led to some conversation about Twitter’s business model and potential applications for businesses. A few weeks ago I had some thoughts about Twitter and its possible development of an emergency alerting
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Does Reaching the “Inbox” Really Matter Anymore?

It struck me as I was reviewing my plans for the upcoming Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition in June that there is not a lot of attention on using email to reach one’s customer base in the Conference agenda and session discussions about online marketing. In the not so distant past (which means a year
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NAB 2008 Is Now LIVE

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2008 Show is now in full swing, stacked with an agenda that is heavy on digital technology, video, social media and the latest product innovations. But those are not the only things going on this year at NAB worth noting. In an effort to expand its marketing reach, not
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The Rebirth of the Web

As a member of the first generation of kids who really grew up with a computer in the home to my present-day work as a marketing professional, I have seen and experienced the changes of the online experience first hand. From the lonely, late night and early morning hours on my CoCo 3, prowling local
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