Social Networking and the Grumpy Old Man
John Mariotti posted a guest article on Small Business Trends on Ten Reasons I Won’t Use Social Media Sites. In it he comes off as a stubborn, grumpy old man. Note to John - not everyone gets to spend all their time going from conference to conference shaking hands.
While I’ve founds sites like MySpace and FaceBook to be useless for business networking purposes, Linkedin has proven to be very useful. I’ve gotten many interviews through invitations to link up and through introductions. In my past role at Match.com, I reached multiple leads via Linkedin that I otherwise would not have been able to locate. So my experience is that social networking can be very effective both in finding a job and in finding a lead.
