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Using Twitter to Find Work

Friday, March 6th, 2009 | Posted by Stephen Olmstead Delicious StumbleUpon Digg

Hey all- this is my very first screencast.  I think I’m going to do many more of these, so please feel free to let me know what you think.  This particular screencast focuses on getting work using Twitter.  In this lesson I ’spill’ a few secrets to finding job leads and teach you how to leverage technology to this end.  I hope you find it helpful.

26 COMMENTS to this post

  1. Rick Wolff, ON March 6th, 2009

    I think you may have just saved my life.

  2. Stephen Olmstead, ON March 6th, 2009

    Glad this was helpful Rick- thanks so much for dropping by and taking the time view!

  3. Michael, ON March 6th, 2009

    Pretty cool Stephen thanks for sharing..

  4. Jeff Krieger, ON March 7th, 2009

    Hey Stephen,

    Great job! I like how I can see you in the screencast. Much better than when I can’t see folks. I have checked out Times again. Will let you know if your tips work for me! How the heck is the font you have on here just plain text? Look fwd to more screencasts.

  5. Donya, ON March 13th, 2009

    Intellectual property. Thanks.

  6. Diane Brooks, ON March 14th, 2009

    Excellent screencast and great information. I am eager to do a search for people looking for a Realtor. I can refer anywhere in the US, so hopefully I will find some folks who need some help! Thanks for sharing your strategies!!

    Diane

  7. Michael Tchong, ON March 14th, 2009

    Very nice! Have twittered this already. Will tweet it again. Love that Times RSS reader, going to download it now! :)

  8. Michelle Dunlap, ON March 14th, 2009

    Wonderful screencast! I’ve been using Twitter casually for a while, but really wasn’t aware at some of the tools at my disposal, such as the search. Just started playing with Tweet Deck, and have set up some searches. Will probably use my day off tomorrow to get familiar with Times Reader.

  9. Stephen Olmstead, ON March 14th, 2009

    Michael, Michelle, Dian, Donya, Michael, and Jeff- Thanks so much for the feedback! I’m so glad this is proving helpful/useful to you all out there. I’m really glad to see that this is making the rounds to those of outside of the graphic design field as well. Let me know if you have any success using this method.

    Jeff- The text on here is actually being dynamically generated using a technique called sIFR (sean inman flash replacement). Essentially this technique employs a flashscript which ‘holds’ a font in it. The flashscript is then called up via CSS and styled into the headings or whatever areas you want to display non-standard text. I love it because it’s still SEO friendly and selectable. A search on google should yield much more info for you. Thanks for commenting my friend!

  10. djchandler, ON March 16th, 2009

    Love your website. Thanks for helping…peace.

  11. Chris, ON March 16th, 2009

    Thanks Stephen that was awesome. Knew it was possible but never seen it all explained so well. Especially like the Times RSS reader. Might give that a shot.

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  13. Eric Herberholz, ON March 17th, 2009

    I use the following tags: #job #jobs #haj

  14. Dennis Lankes, ON March 18th, 2009

    The part about using the term looking for in a twitter search was reason enough to watch this video. Thanks Stephen and I am sure some of our startups will thank you as well.

  15. Lawrence Low, ON March 21st, 2009

    Thanks man, I never even though about this before…super helpful!

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  17. MorayWeb, ON April 7th, 2009

    Fantastic screencast - very useful and informative! Thanks, and I look forward to future ones….

  18. Luiz Fernando Dias, ON April 7th, 2009

    Really helpful!

    Thanks!

    Luiz Fernando Dias
    [from Brazil]

  19. Neal, ON April 9th, 2009

    Fan-freaking-tastic. This is pretty awesome. Thank you for taking the time to share this! :)

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  21. Nikki, ON May 29th, 2009

    This was really helpful - I applied to several jobs as I was listening to this! :) Thanks a ton!

  22. Casey Hald, ON July 24th, 2009

    Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this. You’ve helped out a lot of people, including me :)

    -Casey

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  24. Stephen Olmstead, ON July 28th, 2009

    Hey all- really glad that this continues to be helpful to you! This is by far our most popular post as I continue to see traffic from this via twitter and link-love. I’m flattered that you’d use this as a resource- I’ll look for more ways to help out in this arena in the near future. God bless!

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