Guest article from Chris Perry, Career Rocketeer founder. NOTE from Phil: I got introduced to Chris when he featured me as one of the 150+ Experts on Twitter ALL Job Seekers MUST Follow. I was impressed with the time he took to create this list, and the care he took to really talk a bit [...]
When folks ask me how to explain Twitter to them, I invariably share some variation of this story: Think of Twitter as a cocktail party with 100 people in the room, with 100 separate conversations. You might be interested in what 10 folks have to say, so you listen to what those 10 people have [...]
I can’t find the link or the e-mail, but if memory serves, Julie recently asked me how to use Twitter for the job search and how you might do this most effectively. I’m not looking for a job, so I did some research into how folks are using Twitter for job searching, and I came [...]
You’re busy. I’m busy. We’re all busy. It’s super easy to get sucked into spending a LOT of time on the various social media solutions without knowing whether or not you’re making a difference in your bottom line or not. This article is the first of many that will teach you how to make the most [...]
I try to follow all the real people I can on Twitter. If I see you mentioned from one of my friends, I’m going to check you out. If you send a tweet to @philgerb, I’m going to check you out. If I do a search for something and you come up, I’m going to [...]
Last night, Twitter was down for about an hour. They said it was down due to some “fatal software error.” Honestly, I don’t care why it was down. I just know it was down, and I use Twitter for a lot of my research and for a lot of my contact with the rest of [...]