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Fort Wayne, IN – www.SocialMediaFortWayne.com has just launched. The site, offers visitors a platform to discuss Social Media questions and to follow certain conversations, blog post and join discussion groups that
interest them. It is centered at the development of Social Media in Fort Wayne. The success of sites such as Smaller Indiana also built on a Ning platform, offers an easy to use experience for visitors and categorized content to improve visibility to search engines. The content of the new site will be user driven and allow members to visit, comment and add their own content.
I don’t recommend Social Media for all job searches but it is one method and one place that you should have a presence. It is also intriguing looking at how other people are using other media. It may give you a unique idea to apply to a letter you are sending out or to talk about at your next social event. You are attending social events?
Nevertheless, he’d been building his on-line network for well over 3 years for marketing and branding purposes. Tom lost his job last Thursday. He shared his three-day step-by-step play, into his job hunt:
1. Created a “Hire Tom” web page associated with his blog.
2. Contacted close friends and associates via e-mail
3. LinkedIn was the next stop.
4. Twitter is the next stop for Tom
Read the entire post from Judy Martin at WorkLifeNation.com. A good resource for you. Or join our BecomeEmployable Site .
I had two Social Media experts on my Connecting Your Passion TV show this week, Scott Howard from the ScLoHo Collective Wisdom blog and Shirona A. Gunawardhana of Logpipe and this is what they had to say..
Why you should participate in social media.
I just listened to John Jantsch’s podcast with Mari Smith and recommend you listening to it. Mari Smith is a Facebook consultant, what a target market that is since it is has 1 million members, but she does give out some good advice. She talks about how you should have a strategy, build slowly and the proper way to use Facebook and other social media sites.












