Re-defining Professional Visibility
For Career Progression, Business Networking, and Lead Discovery
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Why a ResumeBlog™?
Purpose:
Today's new reality â eloquently discussed in the book "Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself" - is that everyone is a small business owner...of their own career.Professionals need an effective way to signal that they are ready for business - and equally important, ARE a business - by "putting out a shingleâ that increases professional visibility and extends career, networking and business opportunities.
A ResumeBlog⢠fills this role:
- To enable SPM members to become the most visibly searchable candidates in their areas of specialty for unposted, hidden jobs and opportunities
- To enable presention of a content- and context-rich, 360-degree view of SPM members as they become candidates for opportunities
- To enable SPM members to position themselves and their knowledge base as any other small, on-line business
- To enhance the on-line ability of SPM members to network amongst each other, with members of other professional guilds, and with third parties
Guiding Principles
- "I Own Me": SPM Members to retain as complete control over their own professional information as possible, and to allow for flexiblility in the display and inclusion of content
- "Zero-Budget": Bootstrap infrastructure using publicly available, free / cheap / open source tools and services as well as establishing desirable alliances and partnerships
- "Absence of Presence": Establish standard mechanisms for evaluating accuracy and strength of SPM members' information
- "Social Networks Work": Drive ResumeBloggers to develop key skills in social networking, virtual collaboration, and social software application / use
Why blog software and tools?
Blogs are more "open" than websites or proprietary social networking sites, which is manifested in numerous ways:- Ingenious bloggers can and do create open source / freely available blog tools, of which we can take advantage (e.g., BlogRolling)
- Blog data can be collected and transferred elsewhere with a relatively small loss of information (contrasted to the current capabilities of Ryze or LinkedIn)
- Blogs can be dynamically linked together, which is hard to do with webpages and data maintained within different tools -- even our development of the ResumeBlog(TM) is done in an "open organization" mode
- Blog sites take advantage of Google's PageRank algorithm and allow things that previously required proprietary software, software engineers AND a pretty big effort on the part of the member. The database of SPM ResumeBloggers we have created is virtually free at the user level - no engineers, no database software, nothing more than free blogs, free blog tools, and Google.
- Blogs are designed to be shared; they are our conversation with each other and the world. Tools that leverage the internet are tools that are designed to be used simultaneously by groups, not just by individuals.
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
