Buzz into Business

How do we use all these social Networks to be useful?
How can they bite me in the ass?

What to disclose online?
-It's not enough to set your profile to private. Technical glitches happen
-Tools exist to find anything about anyone online
-Put up things that you think you can contribute to society
-If interested in marketing, blog about marketing. Blog about what interests you
-Make it constructive and creative!
-Put something that will act as bait
-Create public and private accounts


what is the most interesting thing you have done on facebook from a business perspective?
-finding people who might be beneficial for us down the road in our career

two ways to make money:
-create something everybody wants
-do something nobody wants to do

"Shit is gold that floats"

Explain what/who you are in one text message

To figure this out:
Take a notebook and a bottle and write out your life story
Become a really good writer
take a marketing course
Without writing skills, will not succeed in 21st century!

Online resumes
ask people to write recommendations and testimonials
linkedin very powerful. cuts down job search time

This presentation was very useful and inspirational to me. Chris Penn spoke about the strategy of adapting one's lifestyle to an increasingly web-driven world. Penn cautioned his audience to make sure that the information on the Internet, however, is consitant with the persona that we want people to see. This piece of advice resonated with a lot of us, and also got me thinking about the degree of control that we have over the material about us displayed on the Internet. Our future employers can and will Google our names to see what kind of information is out there regarding us, and if they find unfavorable content, chances are good we will not land the job. Because of this easy searching capacity, it is crucial for us job applicants to not only take an active role in participating in the online domain, but also making our mark a positive one