Don't conflate the medium and the message/content.<br><br>She (and you, and me) have sites/blogs that contain information that is valuable to others. The site(s) demonstrate that we have experience in a given field and are useful to others who search Google, aggregate our RSS, ...etc.<br>
<br>Twitter is the medium, not the content. It helps drive traffic, but to say that she got her job as a result of it is exaggeration. It is the useful content that she created demonstrating her experience that did the trick.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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in case you're still not clued in to the value of twitter, i have a<br>
good friend, cheryl mckinnon, who gave a talk on open source ECM at<br>
the last ontario linux fest. she got her current job as WORLDWIDE<br>
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER for a european ECM company pretty much through<br>
twitter. she spends a lot of time in boston. she flies to paris on<br>
occasion.<br>
<br>
she's a social media expert. she's on twitter. she has almost 1800<br>
followers:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://twitter.com/cherylmckinnon" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/cherylmckinnon</a><br>
<br>
she got her current job without ever having to produce a resume. she<br>
has a personal blog -- <a href="http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/</a> -- which<br>
has links to her twitter account and her linkedin profile.<br>
<br>
she has a company blog: <a href="http://blogs.nuxeo.com/cmckinnon/" target="_blank">http://blogs.nuxeo.com/cmckinnon/</a>. and if<br>
you go to that page and look down her "recent posts", you'll see where<br>
she blogs about her talk at OLF. so people from all over the world<br>
who follow her now know that she spoke at OLF. (and there was enough<br>
positive feedback for her talk at OLF that she thinks she's going to<br>
recommend that her new company be a sponsor of OLF next year.)<br>
<br>
she will never have to produce another resume for anyone for the<br>
rest of her life. cheryl understands social media. and that's why<br>
she has a job that will let her spend new year's eve in paris.<br>
<br>
if you don't understand social media, you might want to look into<br>
it.<br>
<br>
rday<br>
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.<br>
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