Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Let’s get this out of the way:

Lock your doors via vshioshvii from Flickr

I have not, nor will I ever give my social networking credentials to a prospective employer. What I have already made public is good enough.

If you’re looking to hire me and one of the conditions of employment are that I hand over my login credentials to Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn, or any other social media platform, then we’re not a good fit for one another. That may mean that, all other things being equal, we’re both missing out on doing some great work together.

If people don’t buy what you do – they buy why you do it, then what does the practice of asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords say about why you do what you do? No, in this case your WHY and mine do not align, and we’re not going to work together.

Unless. (more…)

Do you have a PIMP list? I do.

Asking this question raises a number of eyebrows, because of what we often think of when we see the word PIMP. It doesn’t mean what you think it might (or maybe it does?).

For a few years now, I’ve occasionally mentioned on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere that I have a PIMP list. Some have seen themselves on my Facebook PIMP list and have wondered if that’s a good thing or not. I’ve needed to write a blog post to explain what it is.

This is that blog post. (Finally!)
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Image by Edwård via Flickr

Your use of social media will vary from everyone else’s. Especially mine.  I’m continually refining how I use tools like Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn to make them more useful to me, based on what I want to get out of them.

I know you follow on Twitter, friend/subscribe on Facebook, circle on Google Plus, and connect on LinkedIn.  I prefer to call all of this “connecting,” because whether we’re really friends or not, I usually like being connected somehow.  We’ll work on the relationship as we go.  That’s my approach. (more…)

(via The Christian Left's Facebook page - submitted by Larry Fox)

This question came up at the September 2011 New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday event, “Questions From A Hat,” in which attendees wrote questions down and put them in a hat to be selected by the moderator later on.  I was in Columbus that day helping run audio/video for another event, but Vickie Sceiferssent me the audio, and I got a sneak preview of it, which will go up soon as a New Media Cincinnati Podcast episode.

Back to the question… (more…)

As the world changes, so should the way we interact with it. Very general statement for sure (I sense a few “duhs” coming from those who are reading this.). I find my used of tools to help me get work done also changes.

Sometime ago, Facebook released new profile pages for users. Twitter released its new layout of its website last summer. Google is constantly tweaking its search indexing algorithm.

Getting more value from LinkedIn groups

LinkedIn has been evolving, too. (more…)