How to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job - Or Have a Job Find You

For seniors who are graduating soon....LinkedIn.com might be a very good social sites to get good job.

-Create a Profile. Create a detailed profile on LinkedIn, including employment (current and past), education, industry, and web sites.

-Consider a Photo. You can add a photo (a headshot is recommended or upload a larger photo and edit it) to your LinkedIn profile. Note that it must be a small photo - no larger than 80x80 pixels.

-Keywords and Skills. Include all your resume keywords and skills in your profile, so your profile will be found.

-Build Your Network. Connect with other members and build your network. The more connections you have, the more opportunities you have, with one caveat from Kay Luo, "Connect to people you know and trust or have a business relationship with, no need to go crazy and connect with everyone."

-Get Recommendations. Recommendations from people you have worked with carry a lot of weight.

-Search Jobs. Use the job search section to find job listings.

-Use Answers. The Answers section of LinkedIn is a good way to increase your visibility.
Respond to questions, and ask a question if you need information or assistance.

-Siew Ching-

References: About.com, Job searching, LinkedIn, "LinkedIn and your job search", retrieved on
20th March 2009
URL: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/networking/a/linkedin.htm

Facebook applies in iPhone

As most of ys know that Facebook is a popular social networking sites that plays host to Web pages, discussion boards, graoups of people with like minded interests and lots of other contents.

Now users can log into Facebook through Iphone too. Not only that, users get to enjoy the Facebook application through iPhone but Facebook connect files a different need which they serve as the glue to let other applications exchange information as part of a social network.

I heard from one of my friend that he uses iPhone to play the Facebook games such as Texas Holder and he said that it is kind of familiar with the one we usually play through computer and it is still very fun. Other than playing games, iPhone created an application for Facebook which iPhone users get to enjoy the application without entering the actual site. But the application which iPhone offer is different from the actual site and still there are some applications that couldn't be use.

I feel that there are advantages and disadvantages of using the applications.
What do you think? Do you think it is good or not good?

References: Tech yahoo, "Facebook Connect expands iPhone app social networking"
Retrieved, 16th March 2009
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/macworld/20090316/tc_macworld/facebookconnectexpandsiphoneappsocialnetworking_1

-Rachel-

Users give thumbs down for Facebook redesign

Facebook just like to get massive attention from the public, isn't it?

Last week, I posted a blog post about the changes in the Facebook new design. This week, Facebook users from around the world are making big noise and complaining about the Facebook new face as if it is a big changed in their life (more serious than economic crisis =_=).

As I was browsing through the internet, I have seen many many web sites reported on the Facebook face changing issues. Sigh, is it really that "important"? I mean, ya I found it quite inconvenient too on the new design, but I just live with it. Just try to get used to it. There is no need to form a club protesting on this issues. People around the world are crazy about Facebook....it has becoming more like a disease.....

What do you think? Are you protesting too?
-Siew Ching-

Facebook, you are not the only one ok......

Here are some others SNS:

• Twitter.com — Micro blogging anyone? what is micro blogging anyway? Twitter only allows a maximun of 140 characters. That’s really short but that’s what it means by Twittering, just for others to follow and not make long announcement. Short announcement. Really short. Just enough to let people know what you are up to. Is it really useful? Some people says it does. However I can’t seem to find it useful. After all, you could make short announcement in your Facebook or in your MSN messenger. As a web site made solely on short announcement for people to follow seems a little offbeat. Sign on anyway just to make short announcements! Ha-ha! As an added usefulness, you can link it to Facebook and put a twitter badge on your web site too!
• Jaiku.com — Similar to Twitter but at this moment still in beta testing stage. Can’t really review it because sign up is by invitation only. Its interesting feature is that you could install their app into your phone like Nokia E66 or even a Java enabled phone.
• Placeshout.com — Another micro blogging site which we rarely heard of. As what their name is about shouting out a place, a location where you can rent or rave about the place. And the places to shout about? Mostly restaurants located in USA and Europe. Not so useful for Asia Pacific and Australian region.
• Yelp.com — Another restaurant micro blogging site. Similar to Placeshout. Usefulness? USA only.
• Delicious.com — This is about sharing personal bookmarks online. In time it also became a place where you could use it to promote a bit of your web site too, however with the rel=”nofollow” in the link you can’t use it to raise your Google page rank, but still a good way to check your web site popularity and see how many people save your site on their delicious bookmark.
• Digg.com — Similar to delicious.com but not as a bookmarking site but more like a popularity contest. The more people digg your site or article, it gets promoted to their frontpage which in turn increases more exposure to your web site or article web page.
• Stumbleupon.com — Similar to digg.com and well as per namesake, while happily browsing around, you stumble upon some interesting website or page and decided it is worth sharing with others.
• Flickr.com — Now part of Yahoo and quite a popular social photography web site. As a hobby site to share and showcase your photography ability. Could also be use in conjunction with your photography or travel related web site. Usefulness? Get a kick out of the number of people admiring your photos.
• LinkedIn.com — This one is different from Facebook. This is where professional network to look for jobs and contract. Call this business version of Facebook. This is a no nonsense social web site. It would do no good to have your partying photo shown to potential employers or business associate would it? This is where you post your work experience and show your best foot forward.

-Siew Ching-

What do you think of Facebook's changes?

All of you must have notice the makeover new design on Facebook lately. So what do you think?

The main changes

Here are the key changes to the Facebook home page users are coming to grips with:

1) Stream

Much like the old News Feed, the Stream tells you about what your friends are doing. It has added real-time updates, celebrity page feeds with comments, and user control over which friend's updates they want to see.

Some users (like me) are not comfortable with seeing all the information streaming in one place.

2) Publisher

Facebook has changed the status update question from "What are you doing right now?" to "What's on your mind?"

This has also become the place to post links, pictures, video, and other types of content.

It's hard to tell when you updated your status without the date and time clearly posted, and also hard to tell the different between status updates and wall post.

3) Highlights

This new column shows long-term information and announcements from subscribed sources.

It includes friend and event updates, birthday notifications, pokes, notes, links with comments, and Facebook announcements. It does not contain advertisements.

4) Filters

There's a new box in the top-left corner that lets users control the flow of information.

Facebook says it has built some default filters such as location, regular contacts, and existing friend lists, so users can click one and excess info should drop off the home page.

However, some users didn't like the new system and some did like the new system. How about you?

-Siew Ching-

Poll result 13/3/09

Does social networking issues affect your daily life?

This is my this week poll vote question.

Here comes the result. The answer of:

Yes, 35%

Sometimes, 40%

I don't know, 13%

No, 12%

What do you think about this question? Is it important to all of us?

From my own opinion, I feel that it is very important as we have to know whats happening around the world. News are happening around us and it is world wide as we need to get to know about it so that we get to know whats happening and whether it affect our daily life not.

Sometimes when i read through some social networking news, some does affect my life and some doesn't. So I feel that it depends on what kind of news is that and what is it about.

What about you out there? After voting I bet there's some words from you.

Don't feel shy to do so, be brave to sound it out so that things around you will change.

-Rachel-

Social networking sites overtakes email use

Ever imagine of social networking sites overtakes email use?
When i read this article, i was like "Oh my God."
Email use to be one of de main ways for users use to connect and contact each other. But as we can see, social networking sites are taking more grants than email.
What kind of social networking sites? Lets take Facebook as an example.
There's tones of users using Facebook and it became a very well known social networking site.
There's a lot of usage in Facebook such as email, uploading photo, chat through Facebook, leaving comment etc. You as a user can see how wide it can be and how well known it could be. This made more and more users would like to spend more time on social networking sites than email. That is how social networking sites overtakes email use.

Since this issue occurred, why don't they improve their usage so that more users will spend more time on emails than social networking sites. They can expand email just like how social networking site does. If this happens, I bet arguments between users will occurred talking about both social networking sites and emails. Which will be the best? haha!!!
Nobody knows what will happen. But never try, never know what the results will be like.

What is your opinion regarding this issue? Does it affect much? Will improvements affect anything? Come and share it over here.

Reference: Pocket-lint, "Social networking sites overtakes email use", Retrieved 10 March 2009
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/22822/23846/Social-networking-overtakes-email-use.phtml

-Rachel-