Just one more piece of wisdom to add. Awareness prior to pressing the send button is real important. Due diligence might avert a disasterously embarrassing e-mail disruption for an unintended victim. Case in point….I was the recipient.

Recently I had spoken with for a story sent an e-mail to me – that was meant for her supervisor. She was upset that she was overlooked as the spokesperson to speak on a topic. Her partner was the better interview. Needless to say she was not a happy camper as her ego had been knocked.

Disgruntled, she e-mailed her partner but sent it to me instead of him. I responded with a simple, “Perhaps this was meant for someone else.” I was compassionate, but she lost all credibility in that one shot.

Anyone working on this problem or interested in working on it, please email me.

Mitchell
http://theconvergingnetwork.com
http://www.nww.com/community/ashley

We’re seeing this in the resume world with one- and two-page resumes becoming the norm again (down from the 3+ pages exec standard of the past 10-15 years) with supplemental information now being included in addenda pages rather than the main resume document. It’s a trend to watch for anyone who is using a resume for job search.

Deb Dib, the CEO Coach
“Unabashedly passionate about helping visionary, gutsy, fun leaders with a conscience build great careers, mold great companies, and even change the world a bit!”

I believe you’re a breath of fresh air, you deliver needed real-world advice, you CARE about your readers and their success, and your posts are always tinged with humor, are self-effacing, and are enjoyable to read.

In a year of following your blog (one of the few I read without fail), I don’t recall seeing an egomaniac — just a guy with the guts to admit he was downsized; couldn’t get hired for a while; and then had the smarts and spirit to create a business that just happens to be VERY customer-focused, service-oriented, and useful; blog every day; and write a book. (While raising a family and being a generous colleague to those in the blogosphere and the careers industry).

Happy New Year to a rising star!

Deb Dib, the CEO Coach
“Unabashedly passionate about helping visionary, gutsy, fun leaders with a conscience build great careers, mold great companies, and even change the world a bit!”

First of all, I realize that Linked in wasn’t used exclusively for social purposes. Let’s move beyond the obvious . . .

Many corporations and recruiters use these sites, but are the sites accomplishing anything for those seeking jobs? In other words, corporations spend loads of money elsewhere promoting their brand to potential customers and employees, are these sites just another venue? Are they effective? And, what does the individual job-seeker get from all this?

http://carterfsmith.blogspot.com/2008/01/are-social-networks-really-that.html

I’m not really a ranter, if you look at the last 18+ months of my blog you’ll rarely see a post like this.

I’m also not a cheerios blogger… I put personal and non-relevent information on my personal blog. So why did I post this on my JibberJobber blog? I certainly didn’t do it to show you how cool or egocentric I am.

I figure there are people out there that would be interested in learning more about digital etiquette. Whether you agree with my 8 points or not, it’s up to you. It’s food for thought. My coauthor on I’m on Facebook — Now What??? disagreed with plenty, and that’s fine, he has some excellent points.

But there are people who really don’t have a clue, think that sending a 7mb file twice (so I need to wait for a 14mb download???) is okay. They like to communicate with me in the cc field, which shows that you skipped out on e-mail 101. They think that their right to being a jerk online coincides with their entitlement to relationships is fine (you can stomp on people only so much), and their long, wordy e-mails to me should get attention right now…

I’m not saying I’m right, and that this is how everyone thinks/operates… but it’s how I operate right now.

What about those that “violate” these things? I’ll live with it. In fact, right after I posted this I sent an e-mail to two people… one was in the cc, and I talked to him in the e-mail, violating my own. I’m not perfect.

But thanks for the advice to get over myself, all the same.

No need to post this to your blog; post it to your bathroom mirror instead.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10853

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DI: When you were writing the book at Apple, how did you save your files?

IJ: I saved the files each day to my Yahoo account, email form. I still have most of them saved. The Apple store did bring some tragic moments though while writing the book…I did have a moment when the Internet froze on the iMac I was working on while writing. Which meant I couldn’t save my document to my email and I thought about saving it to a folder on the desktop or making one somewhere discreet so no one would take it. After I pouted to a store employee about my catastrophe he told me I could buy a CD at the store and then download it, but my funds were limited at the time. So instead I called a film director I knew who lived in SoHo and even with a broken leg, in his crutches he brought me a CD and I was able to burn my document on the disk and save one of the best parts of my book. I believe once you write something, you can never fully write it again the same, so I wasn’t going to leave the store without it. And yes I did cry, stomp my foot, and swear a few times over it. It was extremely dramatic at the time because I also realized at that moment how much the store meant to me, what I was doing, and that even if the store didn’t know it, the store was my means to survival sort of, and it was like I saw my desperation on the computer screen waiting for the Internet to be turned on.

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If you don’t believe that your story is worth telling then who will think it so. (Other than me of course!)

I wish that all my relatives took the time to memorialize their wisdom. Even if they were dead wrong (i.e., “the world is flat”), it serves as a jumping off point from whence you came. As they say “past is prologue” and “those, who don’t learn from history, are doomed to repeat it”.

We have in the internet and endless archive of all human thought that gets recorded. True, much of it (i.e., inet porn) is imho a waste of electrons. But who knows what a genetic researcher can glean from all those photos? I’m not about to throw anything away. Especially when its so cheap to keep. (Consult the Inet Archieve guy Brewster Kahle on how it’s possible to archive all human knowledge.) Maybe they will need to know what humans looked like in the Year 2000 some time in the Year 4000 after all the genetic engineering makes humans all look alike. Like the other Alba!

My point was: everyone’s story is invaluable to understanding the human experience.

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fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself