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facebook fury, YouTube diplomacy, and job hunting

by Andrew Swenson

The Facebook update and subsequent backlash made the BBC News. And the Washington Post. And the San Francisco Chronicle.

It’s weird to me that we can suddenly morph from flair-spreading to profanity-spitting at the whim of Mark Zuckerberg (remember 2006?).

But no matter how you view it, social media has tremendous power.

Even President Obama has started doing foreign policy on YouTube (evidently it’s sort of working?). He’s also launched a humugo grassroots effort (mostly online) to pass his budget.

Our President has succeeded in getting connected and then calling in those contacts when he needs them.

Perhaps we should do the same when we’re looking for a new job or potential clients.

If you know how, keep it up. If you don’t, here are a bunch of tips to get there.

And no, it’s still not okay to have drunken pictures of yourself on your profile.

-Andrew


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