If you are asking what is LinkedIn or have been with LinkedIn for awhile this video/blog is for you.
Back in early March CNN held an
interview with the CEO of LinkedIn. Reid Hoffman answered questions on how to use LinkedIn. Notice that in the
video there i…
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Added by Jay Philips on April 2, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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This is just
my two cents so take it as you may.
Before you write a blog or post a comment do you step back and think who might see it?
If you are not already thinking about what you are postin…
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Added by Jay Philips on March 30, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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Have you logged into Twitter recently? If you login today you will notice a new box with a link to widgets/twitter search. It even gives you a defintion of what they are if you don't already know.
I have a feeling that this is just a test and pretty soon we will see "Advertise Here" links. My only wish is…
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Added by Jay Philips on March 16, 2009 at 9:38pm —
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We are all searching for something almost 90% of the time. Either we are searching for our next job, an old friend, new gossip, etc. Even though we are all searching for different things we can all use the same tools to find what we need/want.
Did you know that you can use Social Media for almost all your searching needs?
Check out my
latest blog that is posted at The Talent Buzz for more info.
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Added by Jay Philips on March 3, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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This is just
my two cents so take it as you may.
I haven't written a blog that focuses on just Twitter but due to the extreme number of tweets I've seen since yesterday I thought this was needed. Since yesterday there has been many tweets about a site called
tweetgreeter. I am in
no way recommending the site since I think it's a joke. The point of th…
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Added by Jay Philips on February 11, 2009 at 3:55pm —
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Stanley Tang wrote a great blog on the
41 top tips to growing your social media presence. Below are the 41 tips and some of my comments (in
purple of course).
1. Be remarkable - somebody worth making a remark about
This is very important. Standout from the crowd.
2. Become a resourc…
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Added by Jay Philips on February 5, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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On 2/1/2009 the Dilbert comic strip had the pointy haired boss telling Asok to create profiles and write positive reviews. This is not a good thing to do. You should not make up ghost/fake profiles just to pump up your product/service. Nor should you write comments that defame your competitors, that's just wrong. You wouldn't want your competitors to do it to you.
Even though I do not agree with the
comic strip,…
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Added by Jay Philips on February 5, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone! 
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Added by Jay Philips on December 31, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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Just wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone. 
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Added by Jay Philips on December 24, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Overdrive Interactive has put together a great
social media map. This map lists out the sites best used for different areas of social media. As we all know social media is huge so the more you can get the word out about who you are and what you represent the better.
I would
not recommend signing up for every single sit…
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Added by Jay Philips on December 22, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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The Become a Blogger team Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick have put together a wonderful report on the
Roadmap to Become a Blogger.
If you are interested in blogging or just want to learn mo…
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Added by Jay Philips on December 4, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Creative Chaos has come up with a very interesting
testing challenge. The challenge lists out a variety of products and laws. You as a tester need to determine what would you test & why would you test those items.
Here's the details of the challenge:
Picture It: Maryland, 1982. You've been hired as an auditor to check to see if Weiss's Grocery Store in Frederick is enforcin…
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Added by Jay Philips on December 3, 2008 at 11:00am —
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Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presented on the lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners during Agile 2008. For those of you that weren't able to attend (like me) the
video is definitely worth watching.
I thought the video was very good and intuitive for people that are either new to Lean/Agile development as well as for pe…
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Added by Jay Philips on November 25, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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This slide deck is very interesting as it shows the different tools that were used in 2008 for learning. There are a variety of tools that I use and some that I don't right now but I'm definitely going to be checking them out.
What do you think of the slide deck? How many of the tools do you use?
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Added by Jay Philips on November 23, 2008 at 10:00pm —
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Some of you use
Twitter but do you use
Twellow as well? Twellow pulls your updates from Twitter and posts them in the categories you select. You can get listed in 10 different categories.
If you want to connect with people who have experience and expertise in your areas of interest then this is the place to go.
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Added by Jay Philips on November 22, 2008 at 8:30pm —
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In every company/project the question always comes up on what the ratio should be. As we all know the ratio almost never comes out right but if you want info on how to estimate the ratio check this white paper out.
Estimating Tester to Developer Ratios (or Not)
NOTE: This is a word document.
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Added by Jay Philips on November 16, 2008 at 6:30pm —
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Would you like to own your own advertisement network, which will grow every day, where you can publish your own ads, affiliations, links etc... for Free?
I found this great site today that allows me to do just that. All I did was signup and post my banner. Sit back and watch the hits come through.
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Added by Jay Philips on November 16, 2008 at 1:54pm —
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Ever wonder what the search engines see when they come to your site? Do you have the correct headers set up? If you run the domain name through this
tool, you will see what a search engine sees when they visit a web page (along with the pages headers).
Suggest/Tip:
Always use a 301 Permanent Redirect. If you use anything else to redirect visitors youre hurting your sites potential search engine rankings.…
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Added by Jay Philips on November 16, 2008 at 11:30am —
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These tips can make the difference between good and no results when submitting to online classifieds.
1. Short is better
Your goal should only be to get the potential client to your website for more information. Keep it short and sweet in the ad
2. Call to action
Use action words (i.e. Now, amazing, attractive, confidential, limited.). These words call the potential client to do something.
3. Make it unique
Find a way to make your product appear unique to other similar pr…
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Added by Jay Philips on November 11, 2008 at 10:30am —
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This is a great tool for finding out what your customers are searching for. This can play a tremendous role in search engine optimization and advertising campaigns. You can bookmark this page, type in a term you are thinking of and the tool will show you how many times that word has been searched as well as other words that are like it.
Very good tool.
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Added by Jay Philips on November 10, 2008 at 10:04pm —
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