Jason give us some pointers on Social Linking

• Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on May 08

One of the local folks that I really enjoy reading from time to time is Jason Alba.  For those of you who don’t know Jason, he has a platform call JibberJobber which is essentially, your personal CRM.  It’s where you keep a list of the relationships you have that may or may not have to do with work, and are owned by you, not your employer.  That way you have your own personal view that stays with you no matter how many times you change jobs, and it lets you track those relationships and your interaction to always help you find a better job.

As a business owner I initially was not all that interested in looking at Jason’s product… but as I started following his writing, I found that what he really writes about is not job searching, it’s about relationships.  It’s about how to build them, how to keep them fresh, and how important they are. 

In this vein, I want to mention Linked In.  I have it installed.  I accept when people want to add me.  I run Plaxo also.  So what.  I have to admit that I have never really leveraged these tools.  They sit there, but quite frankly I get little or no value from them.  But Jason did a really good post recently about Linked In, and an interesting way (and time) to use it.  So I wanted to pass it on.

I also wanted to say that Jason tends to put out these little bite-sized gems of knowledge fairly often.  Definitely a blog worth following.

• Posted in Cool Utah Tech, Techno Rambling