On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:08 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Wasn't sure if this was NF or OT...I thought NF since it was done via > technical means online) > > Check out this link: > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=398&tag=nl.e101 > > I agree with this person. I really don't have much of an interest in > social networking. I'm looking at it thinking "Ok, how is this going to > help my career opportunities?" I'm a very social person, but I don't know > where I'd like to take time away from something else to invest in social > networking. Sure, it might not take much time, but I'm not sitting idle > currently much at all. Heck...there are times I just auto-delete [OT] > emails because I just don't have time to WASTE (and yes, come on...most of > the posts on their are not helpful but just opinions on religion, > politics, and other stuff). > > I know Whil and Ed "tweet" but I took a look at twitter about a couple > months prior to Whil asking about it, and I just didn't see the value > proposition. It seemed like another geek-fest. Should I care what other > people are thinking? After all, it's just a thought...they could change > their mind in the next minute. What it becomes is a means for more > discussion/interaction/participation, and that just requires even more > time. Time that I really don't want to devote to such things. Perhaps > I'm just not cool. ;-) ---------------------------------------
Maybe you can find a tweet from your favorite hockey team. So you will get daily posts from them in the impending days before the season as well as during it. I have one for Vol - SEC sports as well as Packers football. A few in Memphis for news and weird stuff that just happens. Tweets get your message out. Do you monitor any RSS feeds? > I've seen so many fads pop up in IT over the past 10 years and they're > always super-hyped. There are several that I'm glad I didn't chase. > These hyped IT "stars" burn bright for a very short time and then they're > dropped like hotcakes for the next-best-thing. It's frustrating to the > folks who jumped on and are then faced with the reality that they've > wasted their time investment. I'm reminded on a time back in the 90s when > Robert Green recommended I pursue Visual InterDev, but all signs were > already pointing to it being replaced in the very short term back then. > That's another reason why folks got so pissed with M$. They'd recommend > something just to replace it a very short time later. Now THAT is the > appeal of stuff like Python (unless I'm mistaken). It doesn't seem to > have a radical change life. Am I wrong in that pov? ------------------------------ Yep like java. That was a flop. Were you wrong about interdev? well ID would have gotten you very familiar with HTML, ASP pages and how to work in the stateless environment. Probably all things that you are still not familiar with enough to go after paying clients maybe? That HTML knowledge would have been helpful in the replacement product .NET, if you did web based applications. But in the years of the web, hve you ever done a web application for sale? > I'd like to hear the opinions of folks here on the VALUE of social > networking, and a compelling argument of WHY an IT professional should > social network (beyond what I've mentioned). ------------------------ You may get more feeds for potential clients because the people with the jobs think that email is a joke because theirs is treated like spam, and these new social networks are where the progressive constantly learning folk are now occupying. You can also get info from your kids because they do it as well. As my son is identified in pics on facebook I get notices. Nothing that he would ever do. :) LinkedIn is not for kids but for business people and some have huge connections through it. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
