I was asked a few weeks back how to get your picture to show up next to your comment on this blog. For example, if you look at yesterday’s post, you’ll see pictures for Karen Swim and myself, but no one else.
Doing this once will impact not just this blog, but other blogs also. When I commented on a TechCrunch post, I saw my picture come up automatically.
All you do is go to Gravatar.com (that is: globally recognized avatars), set up an account, put in your picture (this will be the one that shows up everywhere), and you are good to go!
It’s that simple, and will be recognized on blogs that tap into Gravatar. The logic behind this is based on the e-mail address you use for your Gravatar account, AND the e-mail address you use when you leave a comment… if they are the same, your image should show up. If you want to comment anonymously, don’t put your e-mail address.
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About a year ago we introduced the import your Gmail contacts feature. It was buggy, and Gmail seemed to change their API (the protocol that allows a third party (like us) to tap into their system). We just sat and waited, and moved on to other things. It’s hard chasing around moving APIs and keeping up to date.
One of my developers told me they had really updated their API, it was more stable, and ready to look at again. So we fixed the import on our end, and it seems to work! However, I did an import and saw stuff that I didn’t want in my database, and a user did an import and had some other issues. The import works, but you may get a bunch of garbage in your JibberJobber database… so a few thoughts:
This is a premium feature (only $9.95/month). Mouse over Network or Tools, and then click on Import/Export. You’ll see the Gmail tab in there.
The import pulls all of your Gmail contacts in. If they don’t have names (first name, last name), they that will be BLANK… but it will pull that e-mail address in. Kind of useful, but it means you have to go and clean it up
On our lastest implementation, there were some duplicates created, and tags and categories got duplicated. This should be fixed now, but if it’s not, let us know!
If there are fields in your Gmail contacts that are not coming over, please let us know… we’ll see if we can grab those also.
If you do an import and you get a bunch of junk, you can delete in bulk (I’ve done this a number of times). Here’s how:
Go to the Network List Panel,
Click on Manage Columns (next to the search box above your contacts)
In the middle column, show up to 255 contacts (right now we are capping it at 255)
Click save, which takes you back to the list panel
Click on the checkbox on the top right, which selects ALL of the 255 contacts on the page,
Scroll to the bottom, and click the delete, which will delete those 255.
This would be repeated for all of the contacts you want to delete (in batches of 255). You can order by Date Created, so you don’t mix in other contacts with the contacts from that import. WHen I did an import, it pulled in about 2k or 3k new contacts…
One other option to consider, just export from Gmail into a csv file, clean up the csv file, then import that…!
Very cool to take those relationships to the next level, but yes, I am overwhelmed at the number of people I’ve communicated with over the last two years in Gmail!
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No, I’m not making progress on that book yet! But I am hosting a webinar tomorrow with a professional in the non-profit space to get up and running on JibberJobber.
I asked Barry Groh, who I blogged about a few days ago, if he was using JibberJobber, and he replied that he hadn’t taken the time to get up and running yet. I know it can be overwhelming, and I figured he’d appreciate a personalized webinar - so I offered him a one-on-one, with an open invitation to anyone else to listen and watch. We are doing that tomorrow (Tuesday, July 29) at 11am MST. You can register at the webinar page.
Note that one of the quirky features of GoToWebinar is the date when you register for any of these webinars… it says Dec 31 of 2009… disregard that and jump on any scheduled webinar on that page.
What are the rest of those webinars? About twice a month I do a webinar for JibberJobber users and usually talk about getting up and running, but the webinar can go off on any tangent based on participation. If someone has specific questions, or issues, we talk about that. Usually it’s entry-level stuff, and I think it’s always eye-opening… if you haven’t jumped on one yet I invite you to join any JibberJobber webinar.
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
Since the beginning of JibberJobber there was a cool little feature you may have seen when you added a target company. At the top of the screen you would see this checkbox:
Last week, in the upgrade where we introduced the new Silver level (1,000 contacts and 1,000 target companies for $5/month), we also introduced Phase II of Global Companies. This is a very exciting enhancement for you. Here’s where the idea came from:
When I got laid off, I was fairly new to Salt Lake City. I had only lived here about 18 months, and I spent most of my time either commuting or working… but no networking. The only companies I knew about in the Salt Lake area where those I could see when I drove down the road. In my job search I found out about more companies, specifically, those which posted openings on Monster or in the newspaper.
I knew there were hundreds, maybe thousands of other companies I should know about, some of them with my next job! But I had no idea how to find them. How in the world do you turn over eery rock to find these companies….???
The idea for Global Companies was born, and that’s where you come in. When you check the checkbox, you are sharing certain company information with all JibberJobber users. You won’t share your private information, like how you rank them, notes, log entries, etc. You won’t even share that YOU are the one who added the company to the list of Global companies. You’ll share something like this:
Simply general information. How cool is that, that I can share this with other JibberJobber users? Better yet, I can see with others share, based on where I am targeting (based on the address I have on my own profile):
If I am searching for companies in a different location, say, Seattle, I would simply change the data in the drop down. Or, if I’m going to relocate and know that I’m moving to Seattle, I’ll change my home address under My Account so it always comes up with the Seattle area.
From the image, you can see I can comment on the company, which can help others learn about the company (any information you want to share). The comments will show as anonymous, but if we find trolls or abuses, we’ll have to clean up the junk and figure out what to do with those who are trolls).
I can also rank the company, and have my ranking contribute to an overall ranking for that company. Between the comments and the rankings, this can be an excellent way to share more information about potential target companies with JibberJobber users.
Notice the add icon () next to the name of the company. When I click on that icon, I add it to MY PERSONAL list of target companies. So if I find a company that someone else has entered into JibberJobber, and I want to store private information about it, I just click that link and it shows up in my list of Target Companies. That’s where I’ll do things like create notes, action items, log entries, tie people to the company, etc.
If I want to get more comprehensive information about the company, I simply click on the name of the company and it takes me to a page with the shared information, comments, ranking, and even a Google Map with directions to MY HOUSE to the company, miles between us and estimated driving time!! How cool is that?
We encourage you to share your companies as a Global Company. You can either do this when you first set up the company, or when you edit the company, by clicking on that checkbox at the top.
Or, on the Company Detail Page, you’ll see a new icon:
When you click on this icon, it will make that company a Global Company.
Remember, no other JibberJobber user will know that you added the company as a Global Company, or how you ranked them, or what your comments were.
Cool? Powerful? We think so! Simply login to JibberJobber, mouse over the Companies Menu Item, and click on Global Companies at the bottom!
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
Many of you will be familiar with Harvey Mackay and his books, which include:
Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty
Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
We Got Fired
Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt
Pushing The Envelope All The Way To The Top
Sharkproof
I have a bunch of these books, but I haven’t had time to dig into them yet. The one I’m most interested in starting is “We Got Fired,” which I think is a bunch of stories of people who got let go and then what they ended up doing.
One thing that one of my users told me about was the Mackay 66… which is a collection of 66 questions you could answer about any of your network connections.
The KEY is to nurture each relationship, right? Here are some of the questions from the Mackay 66:
High school
Year graduated
College fraternity/sorority
Military service
Discharge rank
Attitude toward being in the service
Spouse’s name and occupation
Spouse’s education
Anniversary
Vacation habits
You can get the MacKay 66 for free from his website, here.
Now, what do you do with that? Here’s how this ties into JibberJobber. Note this is part of the free version.
Go to any of your contact’s edit pages. At the bottom of the page, below the Notes box, is the section for Services.
In the dropdown box, the bottom option is “Other,” simply choose that and you’ll get a popup box… and type in whatever you want (keep it short, though!):
Now you can see two questions (on the left) and the answers (on the right - see # 1 and #2). You can also see that you can add as many “services” as you want… just click the Add a Service link and you’ll get another one!
It’s that simple! Of course, if you want to store info outside of the MacKay 66, simply use the “other” option and add whatever you want.
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
In March I read a post by Lucian Beebe, Director of Product Management, called Get Your Inside Connections with BusinessWeek & SimplyHired. I was simply jealous at the very cool interface that BusinessWeek offered to their readers, and immediately sent an e-mail to the address at the bottom of the post asking how we could do the same thing.
Thankfully, we got a quick reply and were able to give this functionality to YOU. How cool is that? A huge THANKS to LinkedIn (and the LinkedIn API) to help make your experience richer! Here’s how it works:
First, you get real data when you are actually logged into LinkedIn … so go login to LinkedIn! If you don’t login to LinkedIn, you’ll be prompted to, like in this picture:
Next, log into JibberJobber and go to the Company List Panel. This You can get there by clicking Companies on the main menu (or, in the image below, click on the link in the QuickView Stats for your Target Companies).
Next, on the right side of the List Panel you’ll see all the icons. You should see the little “in” icon (if you don’t, click Manage Columns and add that icon). Simply click the in icon and you’ll see a popup of who you know at that company, like this (these are the contacts that I have that have eBay in their profile… based on my connection relationship with them… so your results will look different):
Finally, you can drill down to any of the options they show… which goes to LinkedIn’s page, and shows as search results.
Again, thank you LinkedIn for opening up and allowing this type of functionality - it really does make the web a richer place!
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
On Thursday I blogged about the new features we had recently released - one new feature is the ability to get Action Item reminders popup on your taskbar. You know how a new e-mail, or instant message, or something like that will cause a popup notification? Here’s what you do:
First, find a free program which takes RSS feeds and pops them up in your task bar. I tried a couple and settled on BalloonRSS. It’s the only one that actually worked the way I thought it should. Install the program, and then clear out all the feeds that it comes with (otherwise you’ll get popups on news stuff) - make sure you set it up with the instructions from this page.
Next, login to JibberJobber. As a Premium User you’ll see three new RSS feeds on the Action Items panel, choose one (or all) to put into the BalloonRSS “channel settings.” This is where you ADD any of the three feeds from JibberJobber.
Next, go into My Account, Preferences and make sure the Activate Action Items Feed is checked.
Next, create a new Action Item, and put the TIME the Action Item is due.
Now you are all set! If you have your RSS application set up correctly, you’ll get the popups notifying you, like this:
or this:
How cool is that???
I should mention, there are a few things we need to polish on this, to make your experience better. If YOU have any ideas for us, please send them to me - we love to enhance JibberJobber for you!
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
Last year I started experimenting with live webinars to help people understand how to use JibberJobber. While we mostly went over the general “let’s get started” features there was at least one call devoted entirely to more advanced features. This live training is now a mainstay!
I always go by the audience needs, so if you have any questions come join us! Even if you haven’t signed up yet, it’s a great way to easily understand the breadth and depth of JibberJobber, which has been called the “gold standard” in career technology.
The schedule, and login information, is always found from this blog by clicking on Pages (at the top, on the main menu), then Free Webinar! Here is the schedule through March:
January 23 (Wednesday) - noon EST (9am PST) this morning!
February 13 (Wednesday) - noon EST (9am PST)
February 27 (Wednesday) - noon EST (9am PST)
March 12 (Wednesday) - noon EST (9am PST)
March 26 (Wednesday) - noon EST (9am PST)
To access the webinar portion just click on this link, and then call the following number (this information is available on the Free Webinar page):
(712) 432-9998, access code 370520#
So there you go, whether you have signed up for JibberJobber or not, whether you are a job seeker, networker, recruiter, business owner or whatever, feel free to jump on and see what it’s all about!
Remember, if none of these dates/times work for you, you can always access the video tutorials here.
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
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:
JibberJobber is a powerful tool that lets you manage your career, from job search to relationship management to target company management (and much more). Free for life with an optional upgrade.
I was asked a few weeks back how to get your picture to show up next to your comment on this blog. For example, if you look at yesterday’s post, you’ll see pictures for Karen Swim and myself, but no one else. 
) next to the name of the company. When I click on that icon, I add it to MY PERSONAL list of target companies. So if I find a company that someone else has entered into JibberJobber, and I want to store private information about it, I just click that link and it shows up in my list of Target Companies. That’s where I’ll do things like create notes, action items, log entries, tie people to the company, etc.
