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My Virtual Business Card

Rather than try to shove a boatload of information onto a tiny piece of cardboard and paper, I'm taking a feather out of Christopher Penn's cap and putting it here instead.

If you've received a card of mine, this is the page should find. It's all the stuff I wanted to shove on the card.

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

• Lead Developer for a PEO in the Dayton, OH area, specializing in developing Business Intelligence (BI) and Decision Support Systems (DSS)
• Public Speaker, Presenter, and Outreach Organizer, Podcamp Ohio
  
• Founder, New Media Cincinnati
• Founder, Host, and Producer, Journey Inside My Mind Podcast
• Member, Association of Music Podcasting
• Panelist, The Pod 5
• Blogger:
  
  • Get That Job!
  • QuotesBlog
  • Journey Inside My Mind Blog
• New Media Consultant, One Voice Domestic Violence Community Awareness Walk, 2007
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/OneVoiceWalk
• http://myspace.com/onevoicewalk
• http://flickr.com/onevoicewalk
• http://twitter.com/onevoicewalk

Contact Services

• Phone/Voicemail: +1-513-373-4442
• Yahoo: danimal0416
• GoogleTalk: danimal0416
• Email: danieljohnsonjr at danieljohnsonjr dot com
• LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/danieljohnsonjr
• Skype: danieljohnsonjr
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr
• MySpace: http://myspace.com/danieljohnsonjr
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623632641

Websites

• http://danieljohnsonjr.com
• http://journeyinsidemymind.com
• http://getthatjobonline.com
• http://jimmpodcast.com

I don't think this would have fit on a business card.

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Open-ended questions about my blogging approach

While driving into work this morning, I began thinking about how I'm using this blog and blogging in general. I came up with some open-ended questions for myself, none of which I'm able yet to answer.

• What ways can I merge my social media/new media passion with my job as a SQL developer into a career?
• What purpose do I really want this particular blog, to which I've assigned my name, to have?
• Should I separate the new media stuff on this blog from the technical stuff?
• How easy is it for someone looking at my resume to to really see what I'm about? Are folks finding the content I want them to find over here?
• Why do I have and maintain so many blogs? Would it be worthwhile to consolidate and/or "shut down" one or more of them?
• Is Blogger the tool I want to continue to use for my online presence, or is it worthwhile to move it to another blogging platform?
• How can I best communicate the technical aspects of my work in a way that is easy for someone to understand? Do I do this for myself mainly, or do I do this to inform others, too?
  

If you have any thoughts to share, please feel free to leave them in the comments.

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Check out my other blogs:
Journey Inside My Mind Blog
Journey Inside My Mind Podcast
Get That Job! - announcing the new project How I Got My Job!
QuotesBlog
Twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr

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How do you draw the line between effective promotion and spam?

This is a question I've asked my LinkedIn network, and I also ask here:

How do you draw the line between effective promotion and spam?

When marketing a brand or doing some other type of publicity for someone or something, there are effective ways to promote, and there are not so effective ways. How do identify, especially in the digital age in which we live, where the line between effective promotion (self- or otherwise) is and where you've crossed it?

Comments are open and genuinely appreciated!

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crossposted to http://getthatjob.blogspot.com

Yet Another Social Media Network?

It looks like the buzz on Twitter this weekend is about Pownce.com. Chris Brogan put up a post a short while ago entitled, "Why Join Another Social Network?"

Here are comments to what he said:

In the early days of blogging, before Blogger had its own commenting system, there was a commenting system called YAACS. YAACS stood for Yet Another Commenting System. Probably still exists today - I wouldn’t know.

I keep waiting for someone to start YASMN - Yet Another Social Media Network. All of this talk of more places to put oneself online is frustrating. I can definitely understand how it would feel cliquish.

I haven’t yet decided what to do with my Pownce invite yet, nor how to develop my Facebook profile. I feel okay about holding off for a bit and using the current tools I’m using.

I think it's interesting that, in an attempt to reach more outward and gain a wider audience, it can also come across as being exclusive. What I mean by that is the same situation that many of us in the blogging, podcasting, twittering community find ourselves in - only associating with each other. The fishbowl. The echo chamber. We're only talking to ourselves.

So I guess I don't see social media networks as a bad thing in and of themselves if it widens one's circle of influence. For me, I have a rough time of continually fragmenting myself over and over. Something I'm still trying to manage.

Competitive intelligence and internet visibility

You might call it competitive intelligence.

Yesterday the COO of the company asked me to search the internet far and wide for any information about a certain company. I spent about two hours searching across as many search engines as I could find, and had a friend with a paid subscription to ZoomInfo do a search for me. I also searched the Thomas Register, Jigsaw.com, the Yellow Pages, Reuters, US Newswire, and in social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Digg and the like.

I found a link on the NewPR Wiki about What Companies Should Monitor and used that as a resource for places to search.

While I was somewhat fruitful, I found I really enjoyed the opportunity to play detective for a little while. The company could have instructed me to sign up for some paid services, but they were looking for some quick information.

It also taught me a lesson about making oneself visible. This company has apparently done a fantastic job of making itself invisible. Contrast that to a Google search done on "Daniel Johnson, Jr." Aside from a Canadian politician of the same name, most of the top results are related to me, which excites me a lot.

Music, branding, and new media

In the world of new media, C.C. Chapman is a bellwether for me. I have listened to his Accident Hash music podcast for about one year, and for the past six months, I have caught up with Managing the Gray.

As a podcaster and new media enthusiast myself, I've been drawn into the discussion. Most recently it was about how brands are using familiar music to market themselves. Applebee's comes readily to mind with their versions of "It Takes Two" spots, but there are many, many more.

I, like C.C., am torn as a music zealot between seeing a familiar song's lyrics being twisted to sell a brand, and seeing how the actual irritation of it helps me remember the message. I would like to see more original TV theme songs and original jingles on commercials, and I know I'm not alone.

Read more and join the conversation at Managing the Gray.

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