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Two Minnesota Bloggers Scheduled To Present At Career Fair

Paul DeBettignies who writes MN Headhunter and Kevin Donlin of The Simple Job Search will each be presenting January 13^th 2009 at the StarTribune Career Expo at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Kevin Donlin presents at 12 PM:

Noon – Room 102A
Job Search Secrets Revealed
Kevin Donlin, Creator of The Simple Job Search
Want to find the right job fast? Kevin Donlin, creator of www.TheSimpleJobSearch.com, can make that happen for you. In this presentation, you'll discover how to create a resume that gets you hired, using the secrets of ... TV infomercials. How to stop sending boring cover letters -- and send something completely different. What vacuum cleaner salesmen can teach you about job interviews. And much more.

Paul DeBettignies presents at 2 PM:

2 PM – Room 102A
Tips On Being Your Own Headhunter
Paul DeBettignies, Managing Partner, Nerd Search
Paul has been an IT Headhunter for 11+ years; he is a frequent speaker on job search and networking topics and writes the popular business blog MNHeadhunter.com. Paul will share principles he has learned that are universal to a job search through is own business and throughout his years of interaction with candidates that will help speed up your job search process.

Areas to be covered include: networking, what it is, how to get started, and who to contact; using LinkedIn and Facebook as job search tools; effective ways of using email to introduce yourself; finding hiring manager contact names; creating your 10 second Sound Bite and the 30 second elevator pitch; tracking your job search.

And:

3PM – Room 102A
Open Networking Opportunity With Fellow JobSeekers
Paul DeBettignies, Managing Partner, Nerd Search

Minnesota Business, Technology And Sports Blogs Updated

What follows is an update (20 blogs) to my blog roll. If you have a blog to add or recommend send the name of the blog, URL, and RSS Feed to paul@mnheadhunter.com:

Twin Cities Business Blogs:

• Digital In Motion
• Maria Energia
• Sustainable Middle Class
• Techrigy
• Twin Cities Real Estate Gal
• Barker and Hedges Real Estate Blog
• VisiOlo
• The Celebrity I Am Not
• Communications Conversations
• Minneapolis Online Marketing Blog
• Twit In Biz

Twin Cities Technology Blogs:

• Blasted Consulting
• Inside The Nerdery
• buildcontext
• I [heart] code!

Twin Cities Sports Blogs:

• Daily Norseman
• The Viking Age
• Vikings Gab

Twin Cities Business, Technology, Politics, Sports, Recruiter and HR Blogs Updated

What follows is a major update (32 blogs) to TwinCitiesBlogs.com. If you have a blog to add or recommend send the name of the blog, URL, and RSS Feed to paul@mnheadhunter.com:

Twin Cities Business Blogs:

• Above the Buzz
• Barry Judge
• DoApp Blog
• Greater Than Media
• Mediapirate’s Weblog
• Social Studies
• Steve Bendt
• Five Technology Blog
• Small Business Mavericks
• The ATS Guy
• Lawyerist
• Daily Axioms
• find+attract
• HR Minion
• Knowledge Infuser
• Mykl Roventine
• Quirky Questions
• The Talent Buzz
• Social Media University, Global
• Robert Stanke’s Blog
• fahrenHeight360
• OnePlace Blog
• The Contract Recruiter

Twin Cities Technology Blogs:

• Wide Awake Developers

Twin Cities Political Blogs:

• Minnesota Independent Blog
• mnblue
• Politics in Minnesota
• caveat emptor
• MNpublius.com
• The Twin Cities Daily Liberal
• Citizen Elector

Twin Cities Sports Blogs:

• Hockey Wilderness
• The Daily Gopher

Twin Cities Career and Recruiter Blogs:

• The ATS Guy
• find+attract
• HR Minion
• Knowledge Infuser
• Quirky Questions
• The Talent Buzz
• Robert Stanke’s Blog
• fahrenHeight360
• The Contract Recruiter

Social Media Breakfast Twin Cities #7 Set For September 19th, 2008

I know I am posting this at the last minute (relatively speaking) but tomorrow Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul area) will be hosting its next get together of Social Media type industry folks to include those interested in the topic, and those in marketing, technology, sales, and a couple of us recruiter types.

The event is from 8 am – 10 am and we will be meeting at Best Buy Corporate Headquarters

To find more about the event check out the group site Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities and the registration page for the event Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities 7. You must register to attend.

Agenda for the event:

• Gary Koelling, co-founder of Best Buy's BlueShirtNation will talk about BSN and GiftTag
• Group question: Social Media "Pureists" vs. the "Corporatists" in the enterprise. What's your take?
• Three Volts will talk about web video and it's use by companies
• Conferences - Who's going and why (BlogWorld Expo, DEMO, Defrag, SXSW)

Many thanks to Rick Mahn (@rickmahn) who helped create the group and coordinates the events.

Thanks also to Sterling Cross Group for sponsoring this month’s event.

Here are some pics from the last event that had a presentation from Julio Ojeda-Zapata (@jojeda) on his book “Twitter Means Business - How microblogging can help or hurt your company” and from Phil Wilson (@Philson) on his new site ComicTwit:

Group Pics

 

Julio Ojeda-Zepata

 

Rick Mahn

 

Phil Wilson

Check Out Minnesota Bloggers Network

On Twitter yesterday I saw a Tweet regarding a new group that has been started in our area, Minnesota Bloggers Network.

David Erickson, who types the E-Strategy Blog, has started the group and has this blog post The Minnesota Bloggers Network.

One of the things on my mind over the past years has been to get an ongoing informal get together of the area bloggers regardless of their topic.

I look forward to seeing what David does with the group.

TwinCitiesBlogs.com Gets New Feeds

Finally, after a few late nights and more Mountain Dew than a person should ever drink I have switched over all the previous RSS feeds to Cullect.com Many thanks to Garrick Van Buren for helping me through my self inflicted tech issues.

Changes Coming With Added Blogs, More Reliable RSS Feed, And Twitter

The past week I have been adding some blogs I found through my attendance at MinneBar. From those blogs I found more and will be adding them soon.

I have made a switch to Garrick Van Buren’s Cullect.com, a new RSS Feed aggregator. Well, it’s more than that but anyway I like that he built it the way a user would want it to be. (A disclaimer, I am a paying subscriber, very happy customer, and not getting anything for saying so.)

Other new things:

-@twincitiesblogs for Twitter and thinking about to incorporate it into the site, maybe taking a Widget, putting it in the left column, and that takes the place of my “news” and “updates” I would post here.

-Likely combine one feed of blogs to this page.

-Add local blogger news to the left column with links to blogger posts rather than writing the news here as I had planned.

While the intent of this site is to make it easier for me to aggregate my reading if you have an idea how I can make this a site you would want to come back to, send me an email paul@mnheadhunter.com

MN Headhunter Blog

MN Headhunter on Twitter

Lee Odden And TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog Nominated For Blog Awards

Lee Odden and TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog have been nominated in 4 categories in the Search Blog Awards of 2007 sponsored by Search Engine Journal:

• Best Overall Search Marketing Blog - Category #3
• Best Search Conference Coverage - Category #16
• Best Search Conference Coverage in Photos - Category #17
• Most Giving Search Blogger - Category #19

Voting can be done through Friday, January 4^th by clicking 2007 Search Blog Awards.

All of the categories and nominated blogs can be found by clicking Voting Begins - Search Marketing Blog Awards.

 

Technorati Tags: Minnesota Blog, Marketing Blog, Lee Odden, TopRank

7 Minnesota Career, Recruiter, And HR Blogs Receive Nominations

RecruitingBlogs.com is hosting the 3^rd annual blog awards for those in the career, recruiter and HR blogging community. Sponsor for the awards is ZoomInfo.

7 Minnesota Blogs (listed below) were nominated among the 10 different categories in mid-December. Voting was held December 14 to December 21, 2007. Results will be announced January 7, 2008.

#3 Best Third Party Recruiting Blog

• MN Headhunter, Paul DeBettignies, Managing Partner of Nerd Search

#4 Best Recruiting Technology Blog

• Staffing Software Talk, Gregg Dourgarian, President/CEO of TempWorks Software

#7 Best Sourcing/Research Blog

• Diggings, Toby Dayton, President/COO of JobDig

#8 Best Group Blog

• CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Employers Blog, Steven Rothberg and friends

#10 Best HR Blog

• CollegeRecruiter Blog, Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com
• HR Search Marketing, Nicole St. Martin, Search Marketing Analyst at HotGigs
• The Hire Sense, Derrick Moe, Managing Partner of Select Metrix

More information on the awards and a list of all nominated blogs by category can be found by clicking MN Headhunter Blog Nominated In Best Third Party Recruiting Blog Category At RecruitingBlogs.com

 

Technorati Tags: RecruitingBlogs.com, ZoomInfo, Minnesota Blogs, Career Blog, Recruiter Blog, HR Blog

New Blog | VISI Blog | VISI

From the folks at VISI their first post of VISI Blog on November 30, 2007 Behind the Scenes with VISI the question was answered:

So, why a blog? To give our community of technology enthusiasts a glance at what happens behind the walls at VISI.

Behind the scenes includes a look at the making of “Cleaning Lady” TV Commercial.

RSS Feed for VISI Blog is http://feeds.feedburner.com/VISIBLOG

 

Technorati Tags: Twin Cities Blogs, Minneapolis Blogs, St. Paul Blogs, Minnesota Blogs

New Blog | NewMediaWise | Graeme Thickins of GT&A Strategic Marketing

Graeme Thickins of GT&A Strategic Marketing who has been writing Tech~Surf~Blog for some time now started another blog November 13, 2007 called NewMediaWise.

Tech~Surf~Blog has focused on Minnesota start up companies, venture capital, tech conferences he has attended and other topics.

NewMediaWise is going to:

“talk about how new media is changing the world of marketing, PR, and communications. I launched this blog as part of my new practice focusing on helping clients understand this new landscape.”

RSS Feed for NewMediaWise is, http://www.newmediawise.com/index.php/blog/rss-partialText/

 

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New Blog | Mike on Traffic | Mike Spack of Spack Consulting

Mike on Traffic is written by Mike Spack of Spack Consulting. He is doing a great job educating regular citizens like me why people who deal with traffic issues do what they do the way the do it. I especially appreciate his “jargon alerts” as every industry has its own terminology.

The first blog post was October 18^th, 2007 with Why a traffic engineering blog? Nice way to start because I was wondering why and now that I know I have found it to be an informative read.

You will also find some good news with Mike Spack named NCITE's 2007 Young Transportation Engineer of the Year. A blog writer and award winner, that’s a nice month.

RSS Feed for Mike on Traffic is, http://www.mikeontraffic.com/atom.xml

 

Technorati Tags: Twin Cities Blogs, Minneapolis Blogs, St. Paul Blogs, Minnesota Blogs

Introducing TwinCitiesBlogs.com

I know what you are thinking, why a blog aggregator for blogs in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul?

First, my personal opinion is no one is really promoting the blogs, those that write them, or the stories behind the blogs. I hope to do some of that.

Second, my blog roll on MN Headhunter is getting kind of long which is a good thing but it only gives links.

Third, the twincitiesblogs aggregator I had been using on the FeedRaider platform did not do exactly what I wanted. It is slow to load and I could not create a list of the blogs on the side. Nor could I make it pleasing to the eye. OK, it may be possible but not for me. I do prefer the “deck” version though over the river as I like being able to see what I have missed.

Fourth, so I went back to my TypePad roots and created TwinCitiesBlogs.com as a blog to serve as the aggregator. I hope that makes sense. This way I can monitor what is going on and have some news on this main page.

Why the categories of Business, Career and Recruiter, Political, Sports, and Technology? Simple, for the most part that’s what I read. Sure there are some personal or entertainment blogs I read but not enough of them to create a page of their own. Not yet anyway.

For the moment that is why this was started and next time I will fill you in on what I plan on doing with this site.

Between now and then, if you know of a blog that is updated at least once a week and fits into one of the listed categories send me as much information as you can including URL, RSS Feed, author name and email address.

You can reach me at paul@mnheadhunter.com

Technorati Tags: Twin Cities Blogs, Minneapolis Blogs, St. Paul Blogs, Minnesota Blogs