Late last week I was alerted by a friend that I was part of an NBC news story that apparently went out over several affiliates, including Dallas, about social media and job search. I didn’t see the story and hadn’t been asked to comment about it by anyone at the network. So naturally I was curious.
I posted a note on Facebook and Twitter to crowdsource any information about the story. Friends confirmed seeing the story on Dallas and Tulsa television affiliates. Another friend quickly found a couple of links to the story online.
I contacted the author of one of the posts who confirmed that the story was originally generated by NBC and referred me to the producer’s Facebook page to contact her. I’ll update here when I get in touch with that producer. But it’s very cool to see my network in action.
The other Twitter user mentioned in the story, Christa Foley, @Electra, of Zappos.com, was also mentioned with me, and one of my current business collaborators, Jim Durbin, @SMHeadhunter, a couple of years ago in an article about using Twitter for job search on Mashable.com by Sarah Evans, @prsarahevans.
I’m meeting with Christa in Vegas at the HR Demo show later this month to discuss world domination. It’s fascinating how things come together.
I’m meeting with Christa in Vegas at the HR Demo show later this month to discuss world domination. It’s fascinating how things come together.
Next week I’ll be speaking at the Recruiting Innovations Summit in Mountain View, California at Linkedin‘s headquarters. This is pretty exciting for me because I do training and consulting for companies all over North America on using Linkedin and social media for sales, marketing, and recruiting as VP of Ajax Social Media. And I have worked with Linkedin at their New York City office, but have never been to Linkedin’s HQ before.
Hopefully I will have a even more about this news feature to share by the time I get there. Come out to meet me if you can get to Mountain View on May 17th.
