Blogging4Jobs

September 2010

Bloggers Beware–Liabilities, Licensing, & Legalese

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Like most anything in this world, there are benefits as well as risk.  Blogging is no different. Earlier this month, the Associate Press (AP) announced that they are now recognizing blogging as a credible new source.  By recognizing blogging as a credible source for news, the AP will provide attribution whether the other organization is [...]

September 30, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

More Details About OK Blogging Week

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Upcoming Events & Festivities for OK Blog Week Created as a way for bloggers to network and learn from another across the state.  Whether you are a seasoned blogger, mommy blogger, or soon to be blogger, we can all learn from one another.  The cost is FREE and includes food courtesy of the Oklahoma Prosperity Project promoting the upcoming [...]

September 27, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Your Job Site: Use The Coffee Shop Recruiting Model–Get Your Double Shot

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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This blog post has been published at MonsterThinking.com. Be sure to check out their website and their other featured writers there Online job sites can be found on every virtual corner, just like your neighborhood coffee shop. When I visited my local java brewer recently, it occurred to me that a job site can mirror [...]

September 24, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Guinea Pigs, Google, and You

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

How do you know if that next big idea will or won’t work as a strategy in your company? Is it because you’ve tested and measured to find that result, or is it because you made an assumption ahead of time? Maybe you should give things a test run on a sample population (your guinea [...]

September 23, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Ways to Rock the Job Search

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

I don’t remember who said it, but someone once told me that looking for a job is pretty much a full-time job in itself.  Boy were they right.   Since becoming unemployed in October of 2009, I have managed to rack up hours upon hours of searching for the next job.  I’ve managed to pick [...]

September 22, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How Important Is Domestic Partner Benefits to HR?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

In reflecting on the 2010 SHRM Conference in June of this year, where I attended a session called Employee Benefits; Just How Competitive Is Your Company? where the speaker Steve Williams Ph. D., SPHR threw out the number that now 33% of companies offer benefits for domestic partners and said that if you’re not providing this benefit you need [...]

September 21, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Mowing the Lawn of Misguided Expectations

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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A few days ago I reluctantly went out to mow the lawn.  It had rained the previous night and the grass was wet.  From past experience I knew what happens when I mow the wet grass.  The wet grass gets stuck under the lawnmower, clogs the blade, preventing it from turning and causes the lawnmower [...]

September 20, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

My Top 10 & Celebrating 3 Years with Blogging4Jobs

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

It’s been three years since I started Blogging4Jobs, and it’s been a journey.  The original site, BloggingforJobs was a free blogger site where I wrote for a about a year and a half before moving to Blogging4Jobs.com where we are today.   I’ve written nearly 400 blog posts since September 17, 2007.  I can honestly [...]

September 17, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Oklahoma Blogging Week Oct. 3-9th

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Join us for the Oklahoma City blogging meetup as part of the first-ever Oklahoma Blogging Week, Oct. 3-9th.  Meet, greet, and learn from bloggers and bloggers to be across all industries.  Blogging Week seeks to help connect bloggers with one another across the state and learn from one other.  From mommy bloggers to business bloggers [...]

September 16, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Social & Workplace Influence — When the Grapevine is Good (Part II)

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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For thousands of years, the workplace grapevine has been a social and cultural case study in action.  Rumor mills, shared assumptions, and opinions have long been a part of what makes our place of work interesting, enjoyable, intolerable, or entertaining. In Part I of Social & Workplace Influence When the Grapevine is Good, we discussed [...]

September 13, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Search Secrets–Season 2

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

What a summer it has been.  As the weather starts to cool down and we get back into the daily grind of school and family activities, the Job Search Secrets webshow on Mingle Media TV is heating up.  I’m excited to announce that we are back for Season 2, Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 9 PM EST. The format has been [...]

September 13, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Anyone Else Tired of Social Media?

by Ray_anne

At a recent conference, a group was standing around and someone (who shall remain anonymous) bravely spoke up and stated a fact many of us have been feeling, thinking, and trying to figure out. “I really am tired of this whole social media thing.” There was a bit of silence, but the nodding heads proved [...]

September 10, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

ToolBox HR is HERE

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

There is a large learning curve for social media when it comes to Human Resources and Recruiting professionals.  Not everyone has a Twitter, Facebook Page, and Blog.  There are a number of HR folks who are new to this HR 2.0 world, and I wanted to do my part to make them feel welcome. As [...]

September 7, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Social Etiquette 101

by rblake

I tweet. You tweet. We all tweet! The use of Social Media has exploded over the past decade and is on the verge of being apart of everyday life. Twitter & Facebook are by far the two most popular forms of social media when it comes to marketing yourself and/or your business. These two forms of [...]

September 7, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Using Viral Donations for Breast Cancer Awareness

by rblake

Ten years ago the popular way to get donations was to walk door-to-door selling cookie dough or other various products out of a catalog. Fast forward to the future, I am using social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Blogging to get the word out. I haven’t seen this done before on such a short [...]

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