Thank you so much for the reference point. I’m glad the concept is working well for you.

Best ~ Diane Darling

To address some questions, I blog often in fact my site has well over 300 hundred postings and I am most active on Linkedin and a few other social networking sites. The focus of the article if i remember was using social media to gain a job. I advocate relationships first, those you know and those you trust. As one that was terminated three times in a six month period I truly understand the trials, tribulations and angst of job search. However, while social media might help there are some things to bring to light:
1) social media is often used by the Generation Y crowd and has not been fully and faithfully adopted by Generation X and higher
2) Social media involves meeting individuals you do not know with identities hidden. Hard to build a trusting relationship electronically.
3)Social media takes time and patience, with the plethora of sites, which gets updated first, often and whom do you use.
4) Most important to the article, with millions out of work and a flourish of recent layoffs, many will be using social media to find work. With the ubiquity of social media how can one build a trusting relationship with an individual seeking employment without a varying degree of differentiation.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to explain. And thank you for the interest in the quote.

Blessings.

Drew Stevens PhD

But he would be right to say that relying on it 100% wouldn’t likely be effective. As Dave does do, you do have to follow up and have face-to-face meetings with people — or at least phone calls.

I have made virtually ALL of my business contacts in the last 3 years of my business over social networks.

Go get em — can’t wait to hear how things turn out.

-P