Comments on: College Kids Party; I Network

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Keep up the good work.

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:22:49 +0000

I recently returned to my high school to talk to a senior class about blogging. During the discussion, one of the students brought up the fact of “everything is password protected. only friends on FB can see my profile.” I had to inform the class that that is just not so. A lot of them didn’t seem to believe me at first. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t understand that once something is posted on the net, behind passwords or not, it is there for eternity. There is no half-life in the virtual world.
Before someone advised me to, it hadn’t occurred to me to google myself. Not as an act of narcissism but so that I know what information is out there about me. I now look at everything that I post, and that is posted about me through the lens of everyone can see this. Its a paradigm sift if you ask me. The question is, are we ready for it?

By: Mitch Joel - Twist Image

Mitch Joel - Twist Image — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:29:02 +0000

I think it all boils down to self-awareness. Some people don’t even realize that the line between business and person has blurred. I agree with what you’re saying – as Oscar Wilde once said, “be you because others are already taken.”

The issue I’ve been having with this is when people who have profiles complain that they never knew a potential employer would look at their Facebook page or do a search engine run on who they are.

As long as you’re comfortable with what you have out there, then that should be fine. You also have to realize that some employers might have more sensible values – that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t work for them if you like to party… it just means that you need to aware that whatever you have on these public (and private) spaces can and will be used against you… good and bad.

By: Anna Glattstein

Anna Glattstein — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:58:31 +0000

Chris and Amanda:

Thanks for the great advice. That is definitely true and I should probably get more involved in social media. I am based in Boston but I am moving to Rhode Island in January.

By: Anna Glattstein

Anna Glattstein — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:57:30 +0000

Chris:

Thanks for the great advice. That is definitely true and I should probably get more involved in social media. I am based in Boston but I am moving to Rhode Island in January.

By: Bob Calise

Bob Calise — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:06:47 +0000

I like where your head is at, Amanda.

At the 2006 Collegiate Entrepreneur’s Conference in Chicago, a small group of us adopted “CEO: We’re not partying, we’re networking.” as our unofficial slogan, because it truly was what we were doing.

At the 2007 conference, the theme was even more applicable. I can’t even count the number of valuable connections that were made with people during the daytime sessions and solidified over a drink in the evening. In fact, I think it delves beyond simple business connections — some of these people will, ultimately, become close lifelong friends for one another.

And, in my opinion, those are the connections you really want to make. Collecting a hundred business cards at a “networking” event is fine and dandy, but there’s no way someone could ever effectively follow up with all of those people. At the end of the day, getting a business card is simply acquiring another piece of paper. A new friend, a lasting connection — that’s where it’s at.

By: steve garfield

steve garfield — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:45:12 +0000

I do not like the tech gatherings where people introduce themselves as their job. Amanda Mooney calls them “card sharks” above.

Let me get to know YOU.

As for meeting people, my mother says, “If you don’t go out, nothing happens.”

So check out upcoming and go out…

By: Four Degrees of Separation « On the PRowl

Four Degrees of Separation « On the PRowl — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:31:10 +0000

[...] me — you never know when you are going to meet your next boss. Amanda’s recent post College Kids Party; I Network reminded me of this. I don’t mean this in the swarmy way like Chris Brogan mentioned in his [...]

By: Justin Kownacki

Justin Kownacki — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:42:49 +0000

You personal life is your personal life. If you make that personal life public, companies can and will use that to evaluate you, and possibly hold it against you.

By doing so, they force you to ask yourself: Is this a company I want to work for in the first place?

Never forget that you have the power to accept job offers or reject them, much the same way companies have the option to hire or fire you. The employment card works both ways. Don’t see yourself as a commodity at the mercy of the market, but as 1/2 of an equal partnership between employee and employer (or potentials thereof).

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:07:42 +0000

Take it from me: Joe organizes a slick (un)meetup.