Geeky Resumes and More: Know Your Audience

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Video resumes.  Retaggr cards.  Portfolios on lovely-labeled DVDs.  LinkedIn.com profiles.  Personal web pages.

What counts as a "resume" today seems to be a collection of items and supplements, all swirling around the actual print (or electronic resume).  Today's resume is an amorphous, complex thing, that's frankly confusing – because there's just so many amazing and cool things we can do.  Let's call them "Resume Materials"

Some of us remember when all you needed was a cover letter and a resume and maybe a portfolio because that was all you could do.  Making a videotape or a Flash presentation and the like just wasn't something people did in their job searched.  Of course what people do now has been empowered by all the technology that . . . well people like us are using.

There's a lot of options for the progeeks out there to go beyond a simple resume and into a crazy world of amazing resume materials..  However, there's an important question to ask before you burn the DVDs, make the video interview, and soforth.

That question is . . . does it actually do any good?

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News of the Day 5/25/2010

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Legal efforts against Apple, Atari seems to be on its way back, and LinkedIn and Twitter seal their relationship! It's Geek News Time!

Geek law:
Department of Justice investigating Apple over music? Sounds interesting . . .

Comics:
It appears Marvel is leaving behind the $2.99 comic.

Publishing:
How to monetize news. A good read since you could apply this to other media.

Social Media:
LinkedIn is pretty much a full Twitter client. Makes sense of course. Good for Twitter, but even more for LinkedIn, which has been doing a good job of expanding what it does – a good model to analyze. And I hope you have a LinkedIn account . . .

Technology:
30% of people thinking of a Netbook got an iPad? Apparently so. Sounds like the iPad made a dent inits intended marketplace.


Video Games:
Games industry growing, but growing slowly. An analysis of just what's going on. Quite a good read – and pointing out that there are more gamers – but the amount being made per gamer is less.

Atari's fortunes slightly improved. Not out of the woods yet, but at least a sign of hope.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Will other social networks follow in LinkedIn's Footsteps?

– Steven Savage

Self Publishing: Everything Old Is New Again

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In the last year it seems everyone and their brother is into self-publishing.  Sure, it started with Lulu.com cornering the market, but Amazon got in on the game, Harlequin has their venture, and it seems every month or three there's some new endeavor out there.  With so many self-publishing options it seems like a new age of print material, both electronic and physical.

I'm all for self-publishing; indeed, I am self-published.  However I can't say it's exactly new.  We've had self-publishing for years, we've had unrestricted access to eyeballs for any author for well over a decade.

We called it the World Wide Web.

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