Adapt or Become Useless
July 21, 2009 by Becky Scott
Filed under Marketing
Facebook has seen huge growth recently. My high school alumni group numbers have rapidly shot up in the last three months. I went from seeing five people from my school to over one hundred (for a small, rural school that’s a lot). Everyone’s there — from classmates, to teachers, to parents and grandparents of those same classmates. And it’s blowing sites like Classmates out of the water.
Classmates is pretty limited. You can fill out your profile for free. But if you want to see much else, you have to upgrade your membership. Want to email someone? Upgrade. Leave a wall …read more
Social Networking – Are You Findable?
July 1, 2008 by Darlene McDaniel
Filed under Careers
Welcome to July! It is a new day, a new start for those of you in the midst of a job search. Last month Gina and I focused on Social Networking. I posed a challenge to many of you to do a Google Search to determine if you are findable. Almost 70 people took on the challenge and learned some very interesting things about their name. Here are a few samples:
David Hollingsworth found, “I looked up my name on Google, and there were approximately 1,290,000 hits. There are very many men with the same name as me, but they’re more …read more





