Adam Darowski makes a great point suggesting that "the blog is the new resume." Adam is dead on with this one. Joshua Porter makes several good points including:
- Your blog represents you.
- Your blog is serious business.
- Your blog is an archive.
- Your blog isn’t the only mirror of your life.
- Your blog is your unedited version of yourself.
I have been blogging for a couple of years (Texas Startup Blog) and it has been a very interesting exercise. I have lost track of the number of job offers or inquires I have received as a direct result of my online writing. Adam explains:
Blogging is the perfect way for a candidate to give an employer a more detailed sales pitch—to show they can “talk the talk” (as opposed to just fill a resume with buzzwords). I can’t think of a reason for any serious tech professional to not have a blog. Not only does it serve as an excellent notebook for storing ideas and links, but it can come in handy in a job hunt where what interviewers really want to just know what, professionally (and somewhat personally), engages you on a day to day basis. How often do you look at a resume and wonder what exactly the person’s role on a project was? Well, if the person blogged about it then you would have a better idea—and you would know if the role would fit in with your team.
Good stuff…
Posted by admin | April 19, 2007 - 4:41pm | 2 Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: adamdarowski, blog, resume, Social Media, Startup
Lots more to say about the new mothership we’re creating called Spur, but the first new thing you’ll notice is the focus of Alexander Muse’s blog, now dubbed the Texas Startup Blog. We like starting companies more than investing in them, so we’re focused on area startups, general discussions of innovation & entrepreneurship, and, of course, who’s investing in what.
Check it out. Lots more routine publishing of company profiles, interviews with entrepreneurs & VCs and much, much more. Big plans.
Posted by admin | June 6, 2006 - 10:01am | No Comments
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Shame we didn't get to meet Amber MacArthur at SXSW, as she's evidently a fan of Big in Japan. She talks about the Big in Japan toolkit on this episode of CommandN.
Then Alex and I did an Inside the Net interview (mp3) with Amber & Leo, all about Big in Japan and the building block ecosystem of newer Web apps.
Technorati Tags: alex+muse, amber macarthur, biginjapan, brian oberkirch, commandn, inside+the+net, leo+laporte
Posted by admin | May 3, 2006 - 10:45am | No Comments
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Seems like some folks are getting bent out of shape about YouTube policies. (We heart YouTube as a viewer, but haven't really published much there.) Here's what going on with PodServe, one of the Big in Japan tools.
The podcall feature is getting play in the media and from potential clients. Frank Barnako @ Marketwatch said this:
Your podcast is calling
PodServe.com, a quick way to create standard, social or public podcasts is working on technology that you might call "going retail, door-to-door." Brian Oberkirch and Alexander Muse, founders of Podserve, said their free hosting service for podcasts is going to offer production tools, too.
One of them will let you type your phone number on a Web page and Podserve will call and allow you to record. Podserve will then create and upload the file to the Web.
"I am so frustrated with these stupid microphones and Skype and Audacity and Gizmo … if I could just pick up a phone and make a podcast, that's what I want to do," Muse said.
Oberkirch and Muse talked about Podserve, and their other free software applications, on a recent "Inside the Net" podcast. Listen to it.
Plus we're talking with two large companies about doing OEM installs of PodServe, primarily because of the ability to integrate VoIP telephony into a corporate podcasting program.
What is PodCall? It's a new feature where you give us a phone number and PodServe will call you at that number, let you walk through a simple phone tree and record a podcast just like you would leave a voicemail. PodServe will then automatically drop that sound file into the right podcast stream for you, within minutes of completing the call.
Also, we've secretly added the ability to add .mov and .mp4 files to your PodServe podcasts, so you can vlog as well with the service. We'll limit the files to 100MB right now.
Technorati Tags: biginjapan, podcast, podserve, youtube
Posted by admin | May 3, 2006 - 10:32am | No Comments
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We talked with Jim & Charles of Jambo before the last Refresh Dallas meeting. Check out our first vlog (look out, Irina) — at the Weblogs Worknotes page, download the file directly (~19MB .mov) or grab the whole feed.
Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, charles+ribaudo, jambo, jim+young, refreshdallas, vlog, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
Posted by admin | May 3, 2006 - 8:27am | No Comments
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