In a comment from yesterday’s post about the video on merging duplicate entries, Tom Kenny asks if there are any other training videos. Of course, I’m not Director Tom, but my answer is:

YES!

Over the last few months I’ve put together 18 videos that pin down various things within JibberJobber. These are short, mostly around two minutes, and are very unscripted But they are helpful to get you started, and ensure that you know about some of the elusive features. I want to share my favorites but it is hard to choose… so here is a list of all of them:

Quick Start

Add a new contact (2 minutes, 41 seconds)
Add a log entry (1 minute, 33 seconds)
Create a CSV file to import new companies (1 minute, 54 seconds)
Importing Companies from a CSV file (1 minute, 46 seconds)

General

The List Panel defined (2 minutes, 27 seconds)
Action Items Explained (2 minute, 33 seconds)

Network

Get Contact List (2 minutes, 53 seconds)
Tags Explained (1 minute, 22 seconds)
Tags to E-mails? (2 minute, 03 seconds)
Drag and drop from outlook (54 seconds)
Network Relationship Goals (2 minutes, 33 seconds)
How to export your contacts from LinkedIn (2 minutes, 26 seconds)
Merge Duplicate Records (3 minutes, 45 seconds)

Jobs

How to track a job posting and edit its status (2 minutes, 49 seconds)
How to Add a Job Feed (1 minute, 31 seconds)
Job Feeds Creating a New Job Record (1 minute, 37 seconds)

Tools

How to use the Maps (2 minutes, 29 seconds)
Expense Tracker (1 minute, 45 seconds)

If you have ideas for other videos, let me know!

I have very few big goals. One of them is to make JibberJobber as easy to use and functional for you. Its all about you. Career management is a pain (although networking is pretty fun, once you get the hang of it!) without having to learn use clunky software. And JibberJobber strives to not be clunky software! Here are two awesome new things that you want to know about:

The first goodie is one of the most requested features of the year - the ability to create a log entry right after you save a new network contact (or target company, or job posting). Well, now you can! Right below the save button there is a checkbox that says Save and Add Log Entry … when you check this box and hit save, it will open the new record and allow you to create a log entry.

Useful? Big time. Let me differentiate “notes” from a log entry… when I create a new contact I’ll make a note like this:

Jan is certified in x, y and z. I found out about her business from the First Friday event that I went to and we chatted for about an hour after the meeting. She thinks there are some great synergies between me and about 4 companies she is working it.

That is general information that is “timeless” (that is - information that I want to see each time I open her detail page). Now, I also need to call her and schedule a lunch, which I’ll do in a log entry:

Call Jan on Tuesday and see if we can meet Wednesday or Friday for lunch.

This is a specific, dated thing, and I need to create an action item with it … so instead of putting it in the notes I’ll use the log entry.

The second goodie is so cool I had to make a video! I heard about it at lunch from a guy that has been using JibberJobber for about a week but he has quickly turned into a power user. He said “I LOVE Anagram! I go into Outlook and drag my contacts into the Anagram box!”

I didn’t know that was possible. I came right home and tried it out and it worked (in Internet Exporer and Firefox!)… it was one of the coolest things I’ve seen on a website - and I’ve been doing this type of stuff for 10 years! Thanks Mike for the tip, and here is the 54 second video:

Well, they are highly recommended by me Actually, I recorded these last night after playing around with my audio for about 3 hours… and then suddenly, and finally, it worked! So I recorded these as fast as I could before my audio crashed again

As usual, this is unplugged, unscripted, but helpful all the same!

Expense Tracker (1 minute, 45 seconds) - This is a cute premium feature that was requested by a small outplacement firm that I met about 6 months ago. It is a very simple way to track expenses and mileage, and you can categorize each “expense” as you wish. Everyone that is (or was) a premium user and adds data into this will get an e-mail at the end of every January with an itemized list that you can take to your accountant and perhaps get a write-off. I think that in various cases (job search, own your own business) the expense of JibberJobber is a tax write-off!

How to Add a Job Feed (1 minute, 31 seconds) - I admit that I don’t like “feeds”… but check out this short video to see how cool it is, and how to get value out of a job feed. Trust me, if you don’t know what it means then you need to spend a couple of minutes watching this - if you do know what feeds are then check it out anyway because this a very cool use of feeds (and fits perfectly into SimplyHired.com’s feed model).

Job Feeds Creating a New Job Record (1 minute, 37 seconds) - Kind of Part II to the job feed video, which shows you how to quickly click on a job feed and add that as a job record. Very cool.

Action Items Explained (2 minute, 33 seconds) - Action Items are pretty simple but I figured this video would help solidify what they are, and how to get the best out of them.

Tags Explained (1 minute, 22 seconds) - You NEED TO use tags… if you don’t, then watch this quick video and see how easy it is to use them. It is super valuable.

Tags to E-mails? (2 minute, 03 seconds) - This is unbelievable, and I’ve been wanting this for months! No matter who you are (active job seeker, small business owner, whatever) this makes JibberJobber worth it. Note that it is a part of the premium features, maybe this is the thing that makes it worth the upgrade!

You’ll find physician jobs on TheRecruiter.com.

I’m having too much fun with this video software… and it is as unscripted and unplugged as it gets! Here are the next two that you might want to check out:

Get Contact List - I figure you shouldn’t be at your computer all day long - even social networkers need to get away and meet people face-to-face! So here is a way that you can print out the people that you have as contacts - whether they are company and/or network, by tag, category, etc. This is how you export to a csv or vcard file to allow you to send to other programs (like Outlook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, etc.)… it kind of looks scary but hopefully this tuturial will help you see how easy it really is. Note this is one of the premium features, definitely worth the upgrade, don’t you think?

The List Panel defined - I refer to a thing called the List Panel, which is like a spreadsheet interface + web interface. This short video shows what the List Panel is (there is a List Panel in various places…) and what the different things mean. This is a “must see” video to help you get the best out of the JibberJobber interface, at least with regard to this feature.

Let me know if the videos are problematic for you, otherwise I’ll keep cranking them out!

So I got some cool software to record “how to” training videos for JibberJobber - finally! Actually I’ve been playing around with different software and I think I found my favorite. So I tested it on a couple of different things (see below), I’d LOVE to know what you think, and what requests you have for training.

How to track a job posting and edit its status - (2 minutes 49 seconds) I have gotten multiple requests on how to do this just this week! So here you go.

How to use the Maps - (2 minutes 29seconds) fun, cool, google. What can I say. (I had to record this 4 different times! Argh!)

Enjoy, and let me know what you think. And… in closing… I did not script this, and I realize there are grammar problems and all kinds of things that are rough… I’ll clean it up later but I’m just looking for input.

If anyone’s curious on how I did it, go check out TechSmith.com.