11. Should Kogod encourage Social Resumes?

This week The Boss is going to discuss a term he had never heard of until today: social resumes. Brazen Careerist has recently added a social resume tool to their website which allows users to highlight ideas, blog posts, tweets, network conversations, and content you have created elsewhere. Users are still able to list and post standard resumes to the site but the whole idea of the tool is to help give employers a snapshot of your professional self based on things you do while online. I must say I think this is a very interesting idea. My only concern is how will employers respond to this because since the content is controlled by the user it doesn't give the full picture of the applicant so how seriously will social resumes be considered and are they even worth being created? If there become enough users making social resumes then this may become a great recruiting tool but until then I think that most students should be encouraged to find jobs through more traditional tools. To learn more about social resumes read this article Brazen Careerist Launches Social Resumes.

On another note, I recently came across an New York times article which discusses a new software, Social Sentry, that will automatically monitor employees activity on various social networking sites. Employees of companies as well as people searching for jobs need to become even more aware and protective of the things they post on social networking sites because if you are posting things deemed inappropriate your job search will be even harder and things like social resumes will do you no good.

That's all for this week y'all. Time for the Bosssss to get some well needed rest, until next time...

2. Social Capital, Six Degrees, and SNA

What's good y'all? Hope everyone is enjoying their extended weekend thanks to the great Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, I read two very interesting articles related to evolution in social networking and how to adapt and manage this change in the workplace. The articles are listed below with links:

Improving Your Ability to Share and Connect (Mark Zuckerberg on the Facebook Blog)

I understand that Facebook will continue to evolve over time and the amount of information available to users will increase as well. These are things that Facebook must do in order to stay ahead of the competition but here is a question that I want to pose:

At what point in this evolution will there be TOO MUCH information available to users? Are we at this point now with the Live News Feed?

I can log on to Facebook right now and know what most people did last night just from the live news feed which is a little creepy. I understand that people don't need to update their status' with what they did or plan to do but the live news feed makes everything a little too easily accessible...can you imagine the next updated and improved live news feed?

In the end, users will have to adapt or decide if they want to continue with social networking. My guess is that they will choose to adapt.

Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends'

Reality mining is an intriguing science that is so precise due to the massive amounts of information available. It is able to predict actions in daily life based on the frequency and date of an event.

When will businesses start taking full advantage of reality mining? Does this violate the rights of employees? I know that I wouldn't want my boss to know everything I did every single day. I think it would create anxiety in the work place thus creating a negative environment.

I have no problem, however, with reality mining being used to help predict the spread of disease outbreaks, social trends, and other hidden phenomena.

Alright thats enough from the Bosssssssss for this week. Peace.