Archive for the 'Marketing' Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Although it hasn’t helped me find a job, I’ve continued to build stuff with PHP. I’ve also been brushing up on my Objective-C. After upgrading to use Version 2 of the GData (YouTube) API I had to upgrade to Version 1.1 of the Twitter API. This took a lot more work especially trying to meet [...]
Posted in Internet, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: API, CodeBird, GData, gitHub, iFrame, JavaScript, Masonry, Objective-C, PHP, SimplePie, Topsy, Twitter, widget, YouTube |
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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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Monday, October 8th, 2012
When you’re unemployed you have a lot of time on your hands. Sometimes you end up watching TV shows you never knew existed when you had a job and didn’t have time for cable television. The other day I was watching “How I met your mother” and one character was a Canadian looking for a [...]
Posted in Self Marketing |
and Tagged: advice, Barney Stinson, Facebook, Jim Cramer, job search, Jon Stewart, Klout, resume, TV, Twitter, video resume |
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Lost among all the glossy photos of the new iPhone, Apple quietly announce the closure and failure of Ping, their social network targeting music fans. Ping was built into iTunes and thus only accessible when you were using iTunes on your computer or other Apple device. Apple famously integrated Twitter more tightly into iOS as they [...]
Posted in Macintosh Computers, Online Social Networks, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: API, Apple, Game Center, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Ping, Twitter, WebObjects |
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