I have to be out of town next Tuesday so it was off to the Callaway County Courthouse today to vote by absentee ballot.
I know the election isn’t until next Tuesday but I urge you to use this right and make your voice heard.
Every vote does count!
I finally created a YouTube account since I have a number of pretty cool little videos I’ve taken at various events in the last year. I just uploaded one which is probably still being processed. They give you some code you can put on your website for it so I’m posting it here to see what it looks like. If the video doesn’t show up yet, give it a while and come back.
Bear with me as I get used to this.
I have suggested to several people looking for a job that they start a blog. So far only 2 people have done so. The first one got a job right away. The second one is my friend John Davis. I hired John to be a farm broadcaster for the Brownfield Network in early 2000. He was an Air Force broadcaster who impressed me and he did a great job. He soon moved to the company’s state news network in Missouri.
He’s now looking for a new gig and is blogging his way along.
Imagine that you’re applying for a job and you call a prospective employer. They say, “Send me a resume.” I think it would be cool to say, “Why don’t you download it from my website.” That’s what John can do. He can also say, “Want to see/listen to some examples of my work?” Instead of making your prospective employer wait for your resume or a “tape” of your work, let them have instant access even while you’re on the phone with them.
I know it would impress me, while showing me that you’ve got some initiative that will set you apart from the pack.
Sometimes you just need to go see how someone else says something because you can’t improve on it yourself. That’s the case with a post over on Micropersuasion. Steve Rubel talks about a survey that says consumers skip blogs when big news breaks out and head to the traditional media. I agree with his assessment of, “Duh.”
Blogs aren’t about big breaking news stories. They’re about news in thousands of niches that are too small for the big boys to cover.