Comments on: Solutions Stars: Strategy Drives Outreach

By: Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:01:08 +0000

@Rusty Thank you for your differing opinion.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:56:55 +0000

Something you apparently don’t understand is that responding to a civil critique of your work with words like “laughable” and “erroneous” makes you look like either closed-minded moron or a hack with something to sell.

I sit in the interviewer chair myself from time-to-time, and it just doesn’t matter to us whether someone has photos of themselves doing shots on Facebook. Our dev team will run circles around pretty much any dev team in the city that I know of. If we listened to you, we’d miss out on a lot of good candidates. It’s a good thing we don’t.

By: Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:45:01 +0000

@Rusty You don’t get it, just like you don’t get why an f bomb on your personal pages impacts your personal image. And that’s because you are too focused on how you want to be, rather than how others perceive you. Personally, I don’t care so much about cursing unless it’s cursing on every little thing. That as an employer is a red flag. Regardless, I found your comment to be laughable and worth pointing out as erroneous. Thus the link.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:42:05 +0000

Hello Geoff,
I’m curious what comment you were reading, because I don’t recall writing that dropping F-bombs “is a great way to be authentic and generate real relationships.”

The gist of what I said is it’s what I choose to do with my free time. And that I wouldn’t want to work for a hypothetical employer who is going to go trolling around my blog/Facebook/Twitter holding perfectly legal and ethical things I do off the clock against me.

I don’t understand how you interpreted the comment to mean something other than that.

By: Steven Lubetkin

Steven Lubetkin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:58:52 +0000

Well done, Jeff. Clarity of the argument had me nodding and saying “duh!” to the many people I’ve heard pushing social media for its own sake. It’s a channel, not a cure for cancer.

Thanks for underscoring it.