If one of your new year's resolutions for 2010 is to find a new job—whether by choice or necessity—you'll improve your chances by creating a professional profile on LinkedIn and then building your network to help you get it seen by the right people.
A reader recently joined Twitter and found a number of other users who were tweeting about a topic that interested him. They were using a specific hash tag to identify the topic, so he began adding that tag to his own related tweets as well.
Shortly thereafter, someone contacted him claiming that his organization owned the hash tag and had even set their Twitter user name to the same thing. The organization demanded that my reader stop using the tag, so he wanted to know if this was fair game.
Reader Cheryl publishes a blog--let's call it A Cool Blog--and she wanted to create a Twitter account of the same name. Unfortunately, when she signed up for the service, the name was already taken.
I'm starting a new category called Teachable Moments, where I'll be linking to stories that illustrate much better than I ever could what NOT to do with technology.
Reader Kerry asked this question in a comment on my previous post, The Etiquette of LinkedIn Invitations.
