Archive for the 'Blogging' Category
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Source: visual.ly via Career Enlightenment on Pinterest During my lengthy job search (I’m available) I’ve written and collected a lot of blog postings. Despite experts continuing to insist, you can blog your way to a new job, I’m not convinced that will work for everyone. So I’ve collected together in one place the best advice [...]
Posted in Blogging, Online Social Networks, Self Marketing, Vancouver |
and Tagged: advice, agents, blog, career, cover letter, expert, Facebook, feeds, insight, inspiration, interview, job, job search, jobseeker, LinkedIn, motivation, online, personal brand, personal branding, quotation, reputation, resume, RSS, social media, Twitter |
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Sunday, January 20th, 2013
Self proclaimed experts continue to insist that jobseekers should blog. I’ve written well over 1000 blog posts and I have to say the more I blogged, the worse my so called career has gone. Other people may have benefited from blogging, but it isn’t advantageous nor necessary for everyone to blog. To paraphrase a famous [...]
Posted in Blogging, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: Chris Abraham, Diane Cline, Eric Shannon, expert advice, job search, jobseeker, Lindsay Olson, Max Gladwell, Nathan Marz, resume, Top 10, unemployed |
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
I’m not sure when it happened, but in the last few days Facebook sharing, the little buttons under each blog post has broken, throwing a little red “error”. I’ve also noticed this behaviour in my new aggregators and I’ve ignored it and hoped it would go away after all many Facebook sharing buttons are still [...]
Posted in Online Social Networks, WordPress |
and Tagged: button, Digg Digg, error, Facebook, like, PHP, plugin, share, subdomain, URL encoding |
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Saturday, October 20th, 2012
There is a lot of advice in the blogosphere on how to make your blog better or more popular. I’m not so sure there is a one to one relationship between quality and popularity which many people assume there is. Sometimes increased popularity is uncomfortable or problematic, whereas increased quality is almost entirely positive. One [...]
Posted in Blogging, Online Social Networks, WordPress |
and Tagged: content, Disqus, Facebook, plugins, recommendations, related, YARPP |
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Some people are obsessed with their online popularity. Klout, PageRank, hits, fans, likes, etc. are all seen as validation that you’re cool and popular. I want to reveal a little secret that is guaranteed to temporarily increase you blog’s popularity. Find an excuse to post pictures of attractive Asian women. Some people don’t need an [...]
Posted in Blogging, China, East Asia, Gaming, Internet |
and Tagged: booth babe, busty, China Digital Entertainment Expo, Cosplay, Li Ling, model, popularity, Shanghai, Yaya Han, 李玲 |
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