I'm The Boss @ netmobs, past CEO of b5media, author of Blog Marketing and a hardcore Canadian
Oct 31 2004
This is just a general reminder. Again. If you’re having issues with XP SP2: call Microsoft. It’s a free call.
Not calling, and then complaining, is like not voting and then complaining: folk are just going to tell you to shut the hell up. And if folk don’t tell you this, just let me know. I’ll tell you to shut the hell up.
Have a nice day 
Oct 30 2004
Apparently that’s the impression some people get, which really is sad…
What’s the apparent difference between ResumeWiki and linkedin? From my point of view, as a online resume center or job center, there is no obvious advantage of Resumewiki to compete with linkedin. Instead, only some tips on resume writing are useful for us.
I hadn’t realised ResumeWiki could be a community networking service, though I suppose that’s definitely possible. To clarify, the central point of ResumeWiki is this: to get everyone who contributes a better resume. Simple, plain and clear.
There are resources, blogs and articles on the site purely because they relate to everyone who is actively working on their resume: how to improve your resume, how to improve your jobhunting and how to find a job.
LinkedIn’s a great site, and I really don’t see myself competing with them in terms of where they are going: “LinkedIn helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.”
I’m sure you could use a resume along the way though, which is where ResumeWiki comes in 
And, I’m sure there are worse people to be competing with.
Oct 30 2004
I’ve decided that whenever I do start looking for work again, I am going to push the fact that I’m now a blogger and freelance writer. This is assuming, of course, that by this Spring I’m not making enough money to simply quit. Right now that might not be a safe assumption…
But, for the purposes of this post, let’s say I’m not making enough money and do need a fulltime job. As a direct result of a fantastic post by Mick Stanic, I believe it’s time to step up and admit my passion.
In it, Mick asks and answers several key questions from his point of view (having recently hired someone largely because they were a blogger):
Q: “Have you employeed a blogger?”
Q: “Does it have an impact on your hiring decision if one of the people you are interviewing maintains a blog and everyone else you interviewed doesn’t?”
Q: “Why does it make a difference?”
Q: “How does passion help someone do there job better?”
Q: “So do many of your staff have blogs?”
Q: “So do you think that educating people about this new world is hard or is it just the perception of this stuff that is the biggest problem?”
Q: “So what value have you gotten out of blogging?”
The reality is that more and more employers are at least aware of bloggers. Some in a negative way, some neutral and some in a positive way. Blogging, though, is a large part of who I am. Specifically in relation to work. I don’t want to work in a company that isn’t aware of blogging. I want them, for example, to have a policy on the matter so I can follow it. Ultimately I’d also like them to be excited about my blogging and to support me in it.
The way I figure it is this: I’m a blogger. If I work for a company that’s against blogging I’m only going to get frustrated. But, by being open about my blogging and writing, I won’t even be considered by companies that are against blogging. Companies that are neutral about it… Well, it’ll likely make for a lively interview where I get to show my passion for blogging, technology, conversations, communication, etc.
And companies that are for blogging and excited about it? Well, those are the kind of companies that make me excited in a big way.
So, when I do edit my resume in the coming months, it will definitely be more “here’s what I’m doing right now”. Sure, it’s nice to sell what you can do, but it’s also good to be able to sell who you are.
Oct 29 2004
I’ve signed on to do a design job for a local artist. It’s my first paid graphic design thing in well over a year. Felt nice to break out Photoshop again and go to it though.
It’s a CD project. Deliverable in a tight 2-week timeframe. As a change of pace I’ll be posting samples as they get rejected or approved, just for kicks. Most folk here won’t have seen very much (or any) of my design work, so this should make for an interesting change.
This was the first sample I sent them. They didn’t like it. If anyone wants the source files to use on some other project, feel free, just drop me a line.
edit: I should add that this is a concept draft. Not a final copy. So things would have changed for a final version to tighten it up
Oct 29 2004
This is very cool. Loren Baker emailed me a couple of days ago to give me a heads up on this announcement:
Blog Search Engine and IceRocket Search have partnered to bring cell phone pic blogs, or MoBlogs, into the search engine world with a new search feature which produces image results of the latest MoBlogs images available.
So, just go to Blog Search Engine, and you can start searching MoBlog pics now!
Oct 29 2004
I’ve just been hired on, as a freelancer (for now), by a fairly well read security site. I’d (personally) never heard of them, but their traffic is fairly high, and the content level is decent. As far as I’m aware there are a handful of other paid and part-time staff as well, though I have yet to get connected with any of them outside of the Manager.
eBCVG (great name, eh?) has hired me to fill two part-time, freelance, positions: News Editor and Content Editor.
Don’t let the “Editor” titles fool you though. I’m being paid to be a content monkey. Churning out 5-10 news items a day (News Editor) and 2-3 multipage articles per week (Content Editor).
They are expecting the position to become a full-time freelance position next year once their income starts to climb.
My main topics for writing will be Security, Linux, Open Source, Microsoft, etc. It should be interesting. I’m sure I’ll be pointing to a few articles as time goes on. I’m supposed to start Monday so we’ll see how that goes.
Edit: As I’m now a “Journalist”, feel free to feed me news stories to jeremy@ensight.org.
Oct 29 2004
Just a quick note that I’ve reorganized my entire Blogroll into subject-based folders instead of reading frequency-based folders.
The reasons are described in this post.
Update: If you feel your blog (or any resource) is in the wrong folder, or would like to suggest additions, please send me an email to jeremy@ensight.org.
Since I’m now a journalist type guy, every resource I can get my hands on makes my life easier
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Oct 29 2004
Good stuff. Doesn’t affect us as we have sitewide licenses for SuSE already, and there’s no sense in paying twice…
But Dell is now making SuSE an installable option for all PowerEdge servers.
Well done, and congrats to Novell as this will only strengthen their bottom line.
Oct 29 2004
10000 more visitors last night looking for the Mosh video. This is crazy! I’m so glad I took the freaking video down…
I’ve brought in nearly 30,000 visitors on this subject so far. Absolutely freaking craziness!
Oct 28 2004
ResumeWiki is set to launch tomorrow.
I provide this post as a rundown for bloggers to link to in terms of what the project is and where it’s going.
ResumeWiki is a community edited resume centre. You post your profile (goals, etc) and resume the community of peers will give you comments and possible edits. It is about harnessing the power of lots of eyes to help you get your job. It is kind of like Open Source’ing your resume. Less bugs, more potential, less work for the individual (you).
Beyond editing and commenting on your resume, ResumeWiki is also a ResumeWriting and JobHunting resource, with pages like the Recruiting Blogs list, tips on ResumeWriting, JobHunting tips and a ResourceDirectory which includes a list of more than 30 corporate job hunting sites.
Here is the email I sent out earlier announcing the launch:
Good afternoon,
I am emailing you either because you have a job-related blog or because we know each other in some capacity or because I, in my infinite wisdom, felt you might be interested (forgive the ego). If we’ve never met, talked or blogged together, allow me to introduce myself (gawd this sounds spammy, eh? My apologies for that).
I’m Jeremy Wright. I’m a blogger by nature, if not (yet) by profession. I’ve been doing job search blogging and tips for a while. I’ve written for a variety of sites and a handful of magazines.
Recently I needed to update my resume. Instead of simply updating it I wanted the input of friends. But, I didn’t want to do a weird email (kind of like this one, now that I think about it). So, instead I set up a site: www.resumewiki.com.
ResumeWiki is part Resume/JobHunting resource and part “get community input into your resume”. My hope is that this resource will bring the power of communities to resumes. For instance, Anthony Cerminaro now links to his ResumeWiki resume instead of trying to keep his resume up to date on his site: see his ResumeWiki resume here.
Tomorrow, Friday, is ResumeWiki’s public launch date. I’ve had a few testers on the site already, so most of the bugs should be ironed out. Feel free to comment about this, blog about this or tell me to shove off and never contact you again. Don’t worry, I can handle it (I’ll also remove you from my address book, don’t worry).
Anyways, again, apologies for the spamminess of this, but please feel free to utilize the project however you see fit. It’s a bit of a social experiment, so I’m not entirely sure how it’ll end out, but the response so far has been positive enough for me to want to pursue this.
If you’ve read this far, thanks for your patience.
Either way, have a great day and a great weekend!
Jeremy C. Wright
www.ensight.org | www.resumewiki.com