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Social Media – Crawl Before You Walk

As with any new technology, social media, for businesses and individuals, should not be taken lightly. Individuals will find that social media can provide a greater pathway to selling themselves as viable job candidates, not to mention uncover a job market not readily available to them on traditional job boards.

With businesses, the use of social media is slowly emerging into an essential component, capable of tracking customer feedback, broadcasting company news real-time and providing a mechanism to increase visibility.

My Article on Career Convergence

It’s always a good way to start out the month by getting something published in one form or another.

As a member of the National Career Development Association, I receive all of the organization’s reading material, including its quarterly journal and the monthly e-zine, Career Convergence. A couple of months ago, I approached the editors of Career Convergence with an idea for an article for a future edition.

OpenOffice – Education’s Best Bet?

You’ve read all the articles before about how rough things have gotten in the U.S. educational system. Cutbacks, layoffs and public requests for tax increases that have frequently been denied.

The idea of finding new ways to save a buck aren’t new. It’s just that most people working in K-12 aren’t generally looking in the direction of their technology options, particularly their productivity software.

A Semi-Valid Assessment – A Response

This post serves a couple of purposes. First, and most importantly, if you are trying to build your business, you always want to see what people, be it customers, competitors, etc., are saying about you on the Internet. You don’t want to act blind-side if you’re checking your company on Google one day and end up finding some disgruntled person posting things about you on Rip-Off Report or a similar site.

Secondly, this post is about having as much information about your company as possible. Only putting up part of the story can lead to the sort of conclusions that other people can make…

…just like this one…

That’s T.O.G., Not Tog.

Over the years, I’ve fielded countless phone calls about our services. Until the recent phone number changeover, I always answered with my name. And nine times out of 10, this response followed my greeting:

“Yes, is this Tog Solutions?”