When you work for an organization, an e-mail address is provided to you and you don’t have any choice in the matter. It doesn’t matter if that e-mail address dumps real e-mail in the spam folder and allows spam to sail into your inbox. You’re stuck with it. A personal e-mail address, or the e-mail address you use when you work for yourself, ...

I have to confess, I still haven’t gotten into Twitter.  My Facebook addiction is bad enough.  I fear that if I add Twitter to my arsenal of time-wasting technology tools, I will never finish a book chapter or blog post again.  Nevertheless, Twitter is white hot.  Its chief advantage is being able to meet up with ...

I knew something like this was coming, and leave it to Google to be the pioneers.  It’s Custom Search – the ability to create a personalized search engine tailored to your needs.  Using Google, you can now create a tool that will allow you to search a specific group of websites, blogs, or topics.  My friend Cody ...

A lot of twenty-somethings and early thirty-somethings e-mail me asking for advice on how to publish a book written for their age group.  While I’m not one to discourage people from anything they have their hearts set on, if you like to write and want to offer proactive advice to people your age or a little younger, my honest advice is to ...

Over at Career Hub, the subject is “blogworking.”  Barbara Safani suggests that a job seeker involved in a full-time search should dedicate a full work week (35 hours) to their search each week. Since networking tends to be the most effective method of search, it's best to spend approximately 28 hours of each week planning and managing your ...

A lot of career experts have been buzzing lately about the necessity of having a blog.  Their rationale is that everyone who’s anyone is out there participating in the online conversation, and that if you don’t have something valuable to contribute, employers won’t be as impressed with you.   Personally, I don’t think it’s realistic – ...