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Utterz from the Road – Making your own opportunities

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Mobile post sent by danieljohnsonjr using Utterz. Replies. mp3

 

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My Virtual Business Card

Thursday, May 8th, 2008


Rather than try to shove a boatload of information onto a tiny piece of cardboard and paper, I’m taking a feather out of Christopher Penn‘s cap and putting it here instead.

If you’ve received a card of mine, this is the page should find. It’s all the stuff I wanted to shove on the card.

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Contact Services

Websites

I don’t think this would have fit on a business card.

 

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Open-ended questions about my blogging approach

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

While driving into work this morning, I began thinking about how I’m using this blog and blogging in general. I came up with some open-ended questions for myself, none of which I’m able yet to answer.

  • What ways can I merge my social media/new media passion with my job as a SQL developer into a career?
  • What purpose do I really want this particular blog, to which I’ve assigned my name, to have?
  • Should I separate the new media stuff on this blog from the technical stuff?
  • How easy is it for someone looking at my resume to to really see what I’m about? Are folks finding the content I want them to find over here?
  • Why do I have and maintain so many blogs? Would it be worthwhile to consolidate and/or “shut down” one or more of them?
  • Is Blogger the tool I want to continue to use for my online presence, or is it worthwhile to move it to another blogging platform?
  • How can I best communicate the technical aspects of my work in a way that is easy for someone to understand? Do I do this for myself mainly, or do I do this to inform others, too?

If you have any thoughts to share, please feel free to leave them in the comments.

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Check out my other blogs:
Journey Inside My Mind Blog
Journey Inside My Mind Podcast
Get That Job! – announcing the new project How I Got My Job!
QuotesBlog
Twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr

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Yet Another Social Media Network?

Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Pownce

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It looks like the buzz on Twitter this weekend is about Pownce.com. Chris Brogan put up a post a short while ago entitled, “Why Join Another Social Network?

Here are comments to what he said:

In the early days of blogging, before Blogger had its own commenting system, there was a commenting system called YAACS. YAACS stood for Yet Another Commenting System. Probably still exists today – I wouldn’t know.

I keep waiting for someone to start YASMN – Yet Another Social Media Network. All of this talk of more places to put oneself online is frustrating. I can definitely understand how it would feel cliquish.

I haven’t yet decided what to do with my Pownce invite yet, nor how to develop my Facebook profile. I feel okay about holding off for a bit and using the current tools I’m using.

I think it’s interesting that, in an attempt to reach more outward and gain a wider audience, it can also come across as being exclusive. What I mean by that is the same situation that many of us in the blogging, podcasting, twittering community find ourselves in – only associating with each other. The fishbowl. The echo chamber. We’re only talking to ourselves.

So I guess I don’t see social media networks as a bad thing in and of themselves if it widens one’s circle of influence. For me, I have a rough time of continually fragmenting myself over and over. Something I’m still trying to manage.

 

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Competitive intelligence and internet visibility

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

You might call it competitive intelligence.

Yesterday the COO of the company asked me to search the internet far and wide for any information about a certain company. I spent about two hours searching across as many search engines as I could find, and had a friend with a paid subscription to ZoomInfo do a search for me. I also searched the Thomas Register, Jigsaw.com, the Yellow Pages, Reuters, US Newswire, and in social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Digg and the like.

I found a link on the NewPR Wiki about What Companies Should Monitor and used that as a resource for places to search.

While I was somewhat fruitful, I found I really enjoyed the opportunity to play detective for a little while. The company could have instructed me to sign up for some paid services, but they were looking for some quick information.

It also taught me a lesson about making oneself visible. This company has apparently done a fantastic job of making itself invisible. Contrast that to a Google search done on “Daniel Johnson, Jr.” Aside from a Canadian politician of the same name, most of the top results are related to me, which excites me a lot.

 

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