Help Project Transformation Match Funds on Dallas Giving Day!!!

A great opportunity to donate to a Dallas charity!
ptpic3 Help Project Transformation Match Funds on Dallas Giving Day!!!“What is Dallas Giving Day?

The Communities Foundation of Texas, The Center for Non-Profit Management and The Dallas Foundation are launching an online giving program called Donorbridge. Donorbridge’s purpose is to make mutual connections between nonprofit organizations and individuals in the community.

Donorbridge will publicly launch on May 20th, known as Dallas Giving Day. The sponsoring foundations are offering matching dollars to non-profit agencies to drive traffic to Donorbridge. Supporters of non-profits will be able to go online, make gifts to agencies they support, and for ONE DAY, leverage a match dollar for dollar”
What YOU can do to help!!

  • Visit www.donorbridgetx.org EARLY on May 20th! (matching giving begins at midnight!)
  • Under Profile Pages, click on Project Transformation
  • Click the DONATE button, and make your gift from $25 to $2500 to be eligible.

All credit card gifts made through DonorBridge will be processed through Communites Foundation of Texas and distributed to PT.

Up to $200,000 will be distributed to North Texas non-profit organizations.

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Get Mike a Job

getmikeajob Get Mike a Job

Today I saw a surprising ad on Facebook. If you are like me you find this a bit odd and clicked on it. When I did I got the story behind Mike.

Mike is an author and marketing guy who has set out to promote himself the way that he promotes other things. That is through marketing on Social media and website promotion in order to locate his next employer. This is still cutting edge job search strategy and likely to be a big win for him after the success of twittershouldhireme.com getting another blogger a job at techVenture. It’s clear that job searching is changing fast as job seekers are catching on the trends. Recruiters have been training from groups like JobMachine.com that teach them how find candidates on blogs and microblogs like twitter.

It is interesting to see candidates intentionally and directly seeking to gain opportunities by bringing companies to them instead of just sending in another resume. It is also something that may change the way the world looks for jobs again. After all research published all over shows that candidates far outnumber jobs on all of the major job boards like Monster, careerbuilder, or craigslist.

http://tinurl.us/d853e6

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Geocities Closing

ya_geo_1 Geocities ClosingSadly the service where I got my first website is closing down. I have been a bit unsure what to do with the old website. I started working on Geocities in 1997 or 1998 had a great time dropping and dragging pictures, forums, and gadgets into the PageBuilder Application. The page builder has the bad habit of locking my computer and running really slowly more often than not. This would be confounded by the fact that it would often lock up when I just about got the page the way that I liked it. GeoCities taught me alot about FTP and FTP limits, index.html verses index.htm, Jgp verse gif, copy and pasting JavaScript. I can’t argue with Yahoo!’s logic in pulling the service, there are alot of better services today, and they probably aren’t making that much money on it anymore. Besides the could probably save a bundle just by deleting everyone, waiting a month and coming out with a new website service. That way they could delete all the users who, like me haven’t cared about their GeoCities account(or accounts) in years. My home page still asks users if they will keep their new year’s resolution for 2005!

I haven’t decided if I will save a copy of the old site for old times sake. However, the site is still up until later this year. Please feel free to see my first website while it still lasts.

http://www.geocities.com/chadjp_2000/index.html

Important Announcement

After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year.

You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We’ll share more details this summer. For now, please visit the help center for more information.

Response to Announcement

Geocities, Thanks for giving me a place to learn, have a good retirement!

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Photorealize

zacpictures Photorealize

photorealize

This is a site that I follow closely. Photorealize is a photo blog by my cousin, Zac a photographer in Portland, OR. You can’t pigeon hole his style as he has pictures of all sorts of different things and the postings tend to follow his life rather than any pattern you and me can pick out.

This is a great blog to subscribe to and learn about the life and art of this photographer.

Take a look!

Photo Blog - http://photorealize.com/

Wedding profile - http://weddings.zacphoto.net/

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Is your dream job playing with Facebook?

It seems that Facebook, twitter and other social networking sites have gotten to be so popular that many people are willing to pay to play. Pay other people to play that is. Social networking sites have so much value for PR, marketing, recruiting, and research that companies are hiring ‘experts’ to build networks for them online.

For what it’s worth twitter may be the most valuable, despite the fact that it is very small in comparison to Facebook, MySpace or Linkedin. Twitter makes it easiest to get instant responses from users. Facebook can create a lot of interaction, perhaps even to much from the customer’s point of view. MySpace gives you the ability to reach out to all your contacts at once with a bulletin.

Not every company is on social networks. But many very successful companies and people are.

I don’t suggest submitting a resume to any of these jobs if you don’t have proof that you have what it takes. My bet is that if a company is posting an ad like this they know what they want.

Wanted expert on Myspace, Facebook Twitter - student ok

Looking for expert on social networking sites. Someone who can put together
myspace, facebook and twitter pages. Someone who understands how they work.

Entertainment company looking for someone who has great understanding of social
networking sites and how to post businesses on these sites. Also how to generate
traffic to these sites.

Perfect part-time position for someone to do at home or student.

Please let us know what your experience is. What specifically do you know how to do with these social platforms or any others.

  • Compensation: $10-15 per hour depends on experience
  • Telecommuting is ok. Manhattan

Marketing Manager: Twitter Community (Hollywood)

Machinima.com is the premier global broadband entertainment network dedicated to computer animated content created from video games and virtual worlds. Machinima.com’s Network is growing quickly and now serves over 40 million monthly video views. Machinima.com’s growing team is seeking a talented, aggressive Marketing Manage to focus on launching and growing Machinima.com’s presence on Twitter.com. The Marketing Manager for Machinima.com’s Twitter community will work with all internal teams including programming, production, ad sales and other Machinima.com community managers to help develop multiple marketing initiatives that will drive the overall presence of the Machinima.com Entertainment Network on Twitter. The ideal candidate will have strong understanding of Twitter’s functionality including knowledge of Twitter’s tools that will help drive exposure of the Machinima.com Twitter community, have the drive to develop key relationships with numerous Twitter community members to grow the Machinima.com Facebook network and have the organizational skills to develop clear and concise marketing tactics that will deliver substantial and immediate results. If you are interested in an innovative, fun and collaborative environment full of passionate young people who thrive on new challenges and work with games every day, Machinima.com is the place for you.

Responsibilities:
• Develop a Launch Strategy for Building and Growing Machinima.com Twitter Presence
• Build and Manage Machinima.com Twitter Community
• Develop and Execute a Programming Strategy Related to Machinima.com’s Twitter Presence
• Consistently Communicate with the Twitter Community and Drive Community Participation
• Coordinate with all of Machinima.com’s internal team to develop new opportunities around marketing

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of the gaming community and the Twitter platform
• Be currently located in the Los Angeles area or willing to relocate to Los Angeles
• Ability to stay organized and to deliver in a timely manner
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple requests concurrently
• Ability to problem solve and bring timely resolution to issues

This position is available immediately.

Machinima, Inc is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) who offers great benefits including fully medical benefits, stock options, and paid time off.

MySpace, Facebook, Twitter Guru (Cherry Creek/ SE Denver)

Short-term gig to edit/maximize site features on my MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages. Must have verifiable proficiency plus individual MySpace, Facebook and Twitter home pages available for viewing. $20/ Hour.

Wanted: Researcher / Avid Facebook user and master of Google Searching (Encino

BINC is a Professional Search Firm specializing in the software marketplace. We are in need of a talented researcher to support the recruiting staff … in other words – we are headhunters and we want you to help us find Kick A** talent for some of the most innovative software companies around.

This will entail finding, calling and pre-qualifying candidates before setting them up on a phone call with our recruiters. Where will you find them? Everywhere – Facebook, MySpace, Blogs, discussion boards, meet up groups, conference speaker lists, references – you are limited only by your imagination.

The office is small and fun and we are looking for someone to work 25-30 hours per week. We pay hourly rate plus commission (the commission can be significant if you are good). Please visit www.bincsearch.com before sending over your resume

Every day is different and you will never stop learning….

Responsibilities
Research and documentation of competitive marketplace, Telephone research, Internet research,
Creation and management of lists/spreadsheets
Maintenance and upkeep of BINC database

Qualifications & Requirements
- Must have a sense of curiosity & desire to figure things out
- Must have impeccable organizational & time management skills
- Must have strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Products – Word, Outlook , Excel
- Must have strong Internet research capabilities
- Must have good phone skills

  • Location: Encino, CA
  • Compensation: $10-12 per hour plus commission

Those are the job postings. Even more telling are the resumes of what people have already done!


This one is a contract recruiter at Google

Google September 07 - November 07 (contract) Mt. View, CA
Candidate Engagement Specialist
Responsible for passive candidate sourcing and engagement with a focus on Software Engineers. Daily Boolean search strings run and contact passive candidates thru various means such as; LinkedIn, Facebook, Xing, etc.


The resume and the job advertisements were all real and were publicly posted on craigslist.org on May 23, 2009

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‘Connect’ my Blog to Facebook

If you have a Facebook account then you also have an account here on chadpursley.com. That is because you can

facebookconnect ‘Connect’ my Blog to Facebooknow connect my blog to Facebook via F Connect.

This program connects the blog and Facebook in three ways.

1. You can attached your Facebook account information to any comments that you post to this blog. (This can include a picture and it changes when you change your profile pic on Facebook.)

2. You can publish the comment onto your Facebook News Feed.

3. You can meet other people who read the same blogs and easily get in touch with them through Facebook.

There were a number of different methods available online to set F Connect up to your blog. I considered three different methods knowing that I am not a programmer, and try not to work with any code that I can mess up. Therefore if you are a Wordpress user and want a simple install of Facebook Connect use should use sociable.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

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Should the Junior level professional blog?

Since I am starting this new project writing my own personal blog. It seemed like a good idea to get some advice. I decided to ask the question on Linkedin Answers.

“Should the Junior level professional blog?” Assuming that one was beginning in a new profession and either knew quite a bit about one thing, or a little about many things. Should they share their knowledge via blogging even though they may not have the time tested ‘street smarts’ that come with experience? What should they do differently than a business blog by an expert.”

The majority of the answers that I got were primarily concerned with avoiding looking stupid by expressing opinions that were contrary to prevailing opinion or worse contrary to fact. I will defiantly take this to heart. Originally when asking the question I was concerned with presenting the blog in an honest way. However I also got some encouragement and if you are in the same situation I would encourage you to check out the responses I got.

To read the original responses I got to the question

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/blogging/TCH_BLG/410243-15872450?searchIdx=0&sik=1235108706963&goback=.asr_1_1235108706963

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Careerbuilder - The Social Network Detective

applicantex7 Careerbuilder - The Social Network DetectiveApplicant Explorer is a new feature in beta from Careerbuilder with implications for anyone trying to use the site to find a new job. The new feature explains that it searches out a candidate’s digital footprint from forums, blogs, social networking site(ie MySpace & Linkedin) as well as online new articles.

Blogs, and social networks clearly have a part to play in recruiting and job hunting. However I have my doubts in the value of search engine investigating a person’s web presence prior to a job interview. For one thing if someone has a common last name then something is going to pull up no matter what and there is no telling whether it has anything to do with the actual candidate or if it someone they never met.

So far by playing with it in Beta Applicant explorer has brought up the following rumors about candidates who posted their resume.

> Money donated to Presidential Candidates

> Another candidate had a common name and there were four Linkedin profiles with this name and one Brightfuse profile in the NYC area. None of them matched the resume itself.

> Old MySpace profiles that had not been touched in years (see left)

> Private opinions posted on blogs, and forums that have little or nothing to do qualifications

> Your religious and educational activities and affiliations that would not normally appear

> Anything malicious that anyone would want to post on the internet about you

Keep in mind there is no opt in or opt out feature for so far on this feature. I admit that even if there was nothing could stop the hiring authority from using the regular search engines to locate the same information. However why is Careerbuilder choosing to create feature that provides such questionable information?

For the meantime it may be best to stick with the competitors…

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Google News II

blansittad Google News IIEvery once and a while it pays to revisit a search you did a while ago. In October I showed how Google News Archive search could pull up information about ancestors. This is a newspaper ad that my Great Grandfather put into his local paper advertising his Insurance and Auto Loan business. I especially like the phone number, it’s only three digits long!

This is intended as a follow up on my Google News archive search article “Google News for Researching Family History on October 10, 2008

Source The Malakoff News - Nov 9, 1945

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Google News for researching family history

So today I discovered Google News archive. Which is a search engine that pulls up old news articles. Generally the news published after 1994 is alot more likely to be digitized but various organizations around the world including a project by Google called News Archive Partner Program is partnering with the copyright owner to get newspapers scanned for a huge historical archive.

googlenewsarchive-300x153 Google News for researching family history

The best thing about this is that not only can you locate articles about our greatest achievements like men on the moon, newspapers also cover stories about ordinary people. I did a bit of searching and was able to locate newspapers about my own Grandfather and Great Grandfather. My Grandfather, Edward Blansitt Jr lived in Malakoff, TX during the 1940s and 1950s. His father, my great-Grandfather was an insurance salesman operating out of nearby Athens, TX. I was able to find out that my grandfather was in the Malakoff High School debate team. I don’t know what he thought of it since he never mentioned it when he was alive, but it is fascinating to me due to the fact that my brother and I were also in Debate during our high school years only 57 years later!

The Malakoff News - Feb 9, 1973

(This one comes out of one of those ‘this day in history’ type articles the debate tournament took place in February of 1994 when my grandfather would have been in high school)

blansitt19731 Google News for researching family history

The Malakoff News - Mar 14, 1947
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nXUMAAAAIBAJ&dq=edward%20blansitt%20malakoff&sjid=nGUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3685%2C1133945

The Malakoff News - Jan 14, 1955
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HJYMAAAAIBAJ&dq=edward%20blansitt%20malakoff&sjid=XWUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2763%2C160441

The Malakoff News - May 17, 1963
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IgYNAAAAIBAJ&dq=edward%20blansitt%20malakoff&sjid=u2IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5983%2C725103

The Malakoff News - Aug 5, 1955
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=unUMAAAAIBAJ&dq=edward%20blansitt%20malakoff&sjid=nGUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2986%2C2028475

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