“socialnetworkingitis”

Sat, Mar 22, 2008

I’m on my way to Florida tomorrow to present at ITT’s Future Workforce Solutions conference (which is a phenomenal collaboration between many of the world’s most influential tech companies to prepare our nation’s talent pipeline for the future… more on that later), and the discussion topic I’m leading is “social networking”. As I’m completing research and gathering my thoughts for the talk, I can’t help but feel **completely fatigued** by this topic. There is sooooooo much chatter and noise out there about how companies should embrace social networking, how everyone should have a blog, how interactivity is the name of the game in the Web2.0 world… And yet the vast majority of employers - meaning the **individual people** who work for organizations that are hiring - seem to feel like fish out of water in this new ocean of social-blogging-interactive-wiki-chatfest. It seems like more folks feel guilty about NOT doing it - mostly b/c it seems to feel so overwhelming they don’t know where to start… So for all of you who are among the savvy blog reading, Joel worshiping, IM-sending, wiki-building, social networking leaders out there - what do you recommend for newbies who aren’t quite ready to dive into our interactive world, but want to stick in their toes to check it out…?

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Jennifer Floren - who has written 7 posts on Cheezhead.

Jenny, founder and CEO, launched Experience in 1996 with the mission to educate, assist and inspire college graduates as they forge new paths into the world of work. Experience has grown its network to include more than 3,800 universities, 100,000 employers and 3 million students and alumni – all of whom are focused on launching the careers of the world’s most important talent. Jenny has been recognized as one of the nation’s youngest business leaders and achievers by numerous organizations including Forbes, Business Week, New York Times, Working Woman, Boston Business Journal, Women’s Business, and Entrepreneur, and is a frequent speaker at nationwide universities and major business events such as the Kennedy eRecruiting Conference, EMA, the MIT Enterprise Forum, Springboard Venture Capital Forum, and the Association of Colleges & Employers. With a career path as a psychology-major-turned-entrepreneur, a relatively young CEO, a woman in business, an Internet pre- and post-bubble survivor, a venture capital fundraising veteran, an advisor to top universities and Fortune 500 employers, and as someone who helps millions of people find their true calling every day, she has many perspectives to share with her audiences. Jenny earned a BA in psychology from Dartmouth College in 1993, and was a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston prior to starting Experience. She is currently a board member and active participant in the MIT Enterprise Forum, Junior Achievement, the Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, and the Caring Canines organization which certifies and manages therapy service dogs (along with her wheaten terrier sidekick, Bailey).

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