Blog Post: Social Media-Not Just A New Media, A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLD!

This line stuck out to me in a blog I was reading called Why you have to engage in social media even if you don't want to. We've been blogging on Jobing since January of 07 and recruiters looked at us like we were nuts. Since then I have paid close attention to the level of engagement people have in regards to social media. I have noticed it go from not interested, to interested yet apprehensive, to willing to maybe poke a round a bit, and in some rare and highly effective cases I have seen people dive in head first and benefit tremendously from it.

This article was great. It shared how back in the late 1990's there came a time where if a business did not have a website they were invisible. Point blank, we as a society realized that if we wanted to learn more about a company and they did not have a website we were done with them and off to one that did; today not much has changed. It's the same pattern emerging, but just in a different way. Having a website is just the beginning, but a new website is still invisible. Having a website and just simple "advertising" is no longer cutting it. Effective social media truly is the only way to go.

Another blog I came across from the same blogger, a smart bear, that I thought was a hoot and really gets the point across was If Kindergarten were like Social Media Marketing. A definite must read!