The Boston Globe has written an article that says blogging is good for getting yourself a job and Tom Raftery over in Cork, Ireland feels left out. No one has offered him a job, although just about everyone who knows him respects him and everyone who reads him or listens to him admires his style and content.
Here's what he has to say about his skillsets:
"Well, I’m not too bad at blogging and podcasting
- I know shedloads about social software and how to use it to raise the online profile of a company, product or service as well as how it can be used to improve a company’s internal and external communications.
- I know a considerable amount about search engine optimisation (hence the following, for example)
- I have an impressive and growing network of contacts
- I am a very good communicator - well used to speaking in front of large audiences
- I have led teams of coders in the development of large web applications
- I am a very experienced sysadmin - and I know my way around Win2k and Win2003 Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and ISA Server ens to his podcast likes what he has to say.
I'll add a personal recommendation: "Tom is smart, witty, honest, hard-working and very well-respected. He understands and sympathizes both with traditional IT issues while he grasps and embraces the tumult of change going on at the leading edge."
You organization will be a better place if Tom is in it. Trust me on this.
