Silicon Valley Tweetup: Jobs Are Available In Comments

Categories: Blogger DinnerPosted on December 11th, 2008

Above: It took me a few days to post it, but here’s a very brief clip from the Tweetup, it was a bit packed.

Just got back from the Silicon Valley Tweetup (135 said they would come, 226 people saved it), last time this year, Tweetups were just about a dozen people or less, but the growth of the service has really demonstrated it’s popularity, I estimate 150-200 folks there. Unlike blogs, microblogs can have a greater rate of adoption as the barriers to entry than blogs as it’s easier to get started, and the ubiquitous mobile device makes it easy.

Some of my friends who came desired a more intimate setting split off to private dinners, and that’s fine too, the event is relatively organic, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

Tonight was a success, and I’m pretty sure we were able to connect people to network and find jobs in this tough economy. Thanks for coming out, the #svtweetup became a ‘trending topic’ on twitter search, suggesting it was a top used tag for the evening.I polled the audience and asked folks to raise their hands if they were hiring, and about a third of them were hiring. I encouraged those who were hiring to stand near the bar, there candidates could quickly get their business card, and perhaps buy them a drink. There were a lot of folks looking for jobs, and quite a few people who were consulting, and a few who just were recently laid off. Strangely, there were people that came that never even heard of Twitter, which demonstrates how viral the event was –people passed the invite around on email.

Had a few offers to get the event sponsored, something I’ll have to think about, but I’m generally steering away from that as this is testament that a community can self-organize without institutional influence. On a more social note, we did entertain each other by singing karaoke, seriously, what is more ’social’ and ‘media’ than that? Joel Postman awarded his latest book SocialCorp to those who could really belt it out best.

Was asked several times when the next one is going to be held, and saw similar queries on Twitter. How often do you think we should hold such a community event? I’m sure folks will create smaller ones from time to time, but I’m thinking of other ways to help people that are seeking jobs connect with employers.

If you’re hiring in Silicon Valley, please leave a comment
Normally, I direct brands that are hiring to post on my job board, (A new job was posted for Vice President DialogueMedia MWW Group, NY) but given the state of the industry, I’m going to suggest that if you’re hiring (or seeking work) to leave a comment below with a brief description to your job post. Don’t post the whole job req (I’ll remove it) instead just give a summary and link to the job posting.

Thanks for being part of the community, I’m happy to serve the community that I cover, you can read my commitments to the industry.

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Antonio Altamirano, (who’s a web strategist at Accenture) took pictures, you can see we really filled up the place. (@antoniocapo)

Thanks to Ida Rose who helped organized the name badges, and was very supportive.

Stella Yu provided me with various location and venue suggestions, now we have to find a larger space, or ask BBC to take out the tables

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Hi all, unfortunately I live on the wrong half of the planet so I couldn’t go to the tweetup but was reading all about it on Jeremiahs tweets. Our San Francisco GoodBarry office is looking for 2 people

A .net programmer - http://goodbarry.com/jobs#one and a tech support engineer http://goodbarry.com/jobs#two. Apply at the bottom of the page - many thanks, @Eddy_Chan

Posted by Eddy Chan on December 11th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

i have been hosting free job seek mixers myself. being unemployed since jan. 13 of this year, networking and paying it forward seems to be the best way to find a job. good job.

Posted by edwin duterte on December 11th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

Thanks for setting it up, Jeremiah! It was great meeting everyone and getting to put faces to the twitter handles! It would be awesome if next time we had an “unofficial” twitter app– like twinkle so we could make networking a little easier since it streamlines local tweets, or even a monitor to track all of our trending on search.twitter.com

For those of you hiring, I’m one of the lucky few laid off from Yahoo!, so if I didn’t get a chance to chat with those of you checking out the blog, or you have a job in mind for a Community Manager, I’d love to chat with you.

Thanks again, Jeremiah, and it was great meeting everyone tonight– hope to see you all on Twitter soon, and in person again!

@mndaniels

Posted by Melissa on December 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

Great event! Thanks J.
We’re not completely looking, but we are planning to give some work to webdev freelancers since we want to focus on our core business. If you do webdev or design, just shoot me an email and some past work. Might be able to help out.

Posted by Yu-kai Chou on December 11th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Hi, I am a graduate student from NJ with 2 years of java standalone and web applications development experience. Please contact if there is a relevant match.

Posted by srikanth on December 11th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

Wondering if you could use an ol’ cyberjunkie such as myself…

Posted by David Boutin on December 12th, 2008 at 12:36 am

Jeremiah, what a fantastic thing to do. Congratulations. I work with alumni associations and have been suggesting they do more to help alumni during this economic downturn. They should use your idea to pull together practical career and job networking events rather than events that focus on the alma mater. Good job! (pun intended)

Posted by Don Philabaum on December 12th, 2008 at 1:17 am

Sorry I missed it Jeremiah — got roped into a late meeting. Lithium is hiring. We’re in Emeryville, just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco.

http://www.lithium.com/company/careers/

Posted by Tom Diederich on December 12th, 2008 at 1:35 am

[...] Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang for hosting the Silicon Valley tweetup. [...]

Posted by reEngineering Antonio » Silicon Valley Tweetup Pictures - December 2008 on December 12th, 2008 at 2:21 am

I spoke with Elisa of Blogher, they are hiring, and based in Redwood City, but the job listed is in NY

http://www.blogher.com/jobs

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 12th, 2008 at 5:08 am

23andMe a “Personal Biotech” company in Mountain View is also hiring, they were there last night and have over 22 jobs available now.

https://www.23andme.com/about/jobs/

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 12th, 2008 at 5:09 am

Melissa

Good luck, let me know if you connect with someone.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 12th, 2008 at 5:10 am

There are over 20 jobs available from Bit Gravity in Burlingame, they were at the Tweetup last night

http://www.bitgravity.com/about/careers/

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 12th, 2008 at 6:21 am

PBwiki is hiring! We’re especially on the lookout for a superstar front-end engineer, and we’re in San Mateo:

http://pbwiki.com/content/jobs

Posted by Chris Yeh on December 12th, 2008 at 8:25 am

Thanks Chris, three more jobs to add to the list, appreciate it.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 12th, 2008 at 8:28 am

Jeremiah, I also found this one in your neighborhood that some folks might be interested in:

Director of Business Development at FanIQ to help build “the world’s greatest” sports social networking site, SF Bay Area, http://tiny.cc/amHjF

Posted by Coach Adam on December 12th, 2008 at 8:36 am

Jeremiah,
I have been following you a short time on twitter but am so attracted to your genuineness.
Stopping by to merely say Keep it UP & Thanks.

Posted by Carol Clifton on December 12th, 2008 at 8:49 am

Jeremiah,

Thanks for all your efforts to support both companies and individuals and facilitate connections during this crazy time - it makes a huge difference. I have three different opportunities available

At Gulliver (www.gullivergo.com):
1) Lead Software Engineer: http://is.gd/blGF
2) VP Marketing (this is an “under-the-radar” hire so no job req at the moment, but we’d love to hear from any of your other readers with strong backgrounds in online+offline marketing, student-targeted campaigns, and lead gen

Additionally
3) For another, stealth company, very short term contract project for a strong PHP or ruby engineer: http://is.gd/b3Em

Thanks again,
@jamesrohrbach

Posted by James Rohrbach on December 12th, 2008 at 9:20 am

Hi Jeremiah - saw this via @danielabarbosa on Twitter -

Do you take jobs from outside SV for SV-types? boards.ie (Ireland’s largest social website) has three jobs just advertised yesterday - Technical Director, Sys Admin and Online Community Manager

http://www.boards.ie/jobs/

Posted by John Breslin on December 12th, 2008 at 9:54 am

Hi Jeremiah, this is just to say congratulations on a great #svtweetup. It reminded me of positive things from the dot-com era, like First Tuesdays in LA. To that end, I would say that monthly is about the most frequent you would want these gatherings, and maybe every other month just so they don’t get stale. See you online and I’ll keep you posted as to what I’m doing next.

Posted by Woody Lewis on December 12th, 2008 at 10:59 am

23andMe is hiring in many areas, and I’m specifically looking to add strong engineers (software, UI, test, etc) to our team. Interest in personal genomics a huge plus! Details here: http://tinyurl.com/5ozxkc

Posted by Alex Khomenko on December 12th, 2008 at 11:20 am

Jeremiah the SV Tweet Up was great fun. The opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet up with new folks was a great experience. Thanks again for organizing it.

Posted by Jim Goldstein on December 12th, 2008 at 11:42 am

Hi Jeremiah,

Are there any tweetups planned for Los Angeles area? Sounds fun.

Posted by Theresa Smith on December 12th, 2008 at 11:47 am

Dow Jones offers a corp comm/pr service for companies looking for assistance with monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of their brands and reputation. We look for consultants and full time positions (possibly coming in early 2009) for PR and Corporate communications writers and experts in social media. We have experienced 500% grownth in this division over the past year so I see a trend of adding resources to assist with clients with project management and report writing.
Feel free to reach out to me and I can point you to the appropriate decision maker
Sally

Posted by Sally Hammond on December 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Hi there, I am not looking for a job but I wanted to take the time to tell you that I loved your post. I had never been tempted to go to a tweetup but now I would like to even though I am not hiring and I am not looking for a job. This is a great way to support the community and to me, it reflects on your character and values and I just wanted to acknowledge that.

In the internet world, sometimes it can feel that looking for authenticity is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Big blessings to you.

Iyabo Asani
http://www.AuthenticChangeCoach.com

Posted by Iyabo Asani on December 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

SelectMinds is Hiring a QA Manager in NYC. We are a Corporate Social Networking firm in NYC with over 8 years of experience. Hip working conditions and company in the heart of Manhattan.

http://tinyurl.com/6xsm5z

The SelectMinds Quality Assurance Manager is a hands-on role, responsible for all product development and client implementation testing programs, as well the development, coaching and mentoring of the QA team. That includes developing the long-term resource requirements and planning to ensure QA team contributes to delivering world class solutions. The QA Manager will develop metrics to perform regular assessment of QA departmental performance, as well as feedback to the product development & client implementation teams in terms of their quality performance.

Thanks for the ability to post this position!

Posted by Pauline Brannigan on December 12th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

I’m a web markeing strategist with 20 years success in the PC industry,recently downsized, looking for opportunities in Social Media Marketing, Community Management.Agency or Client side.

http://linkedin.com/kristasummitt

blog: http://downsized.wordpress.com

Posted by Kristasphere on December 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

Jeremiah, it was great to see you last night; Anyone interested in Dow Jones can either go to our website (http://solutions.dowjones.com/insight) or email me at sally.hammond@dowjones.com

Sally

Posted by Sally Hammond on December 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Came here after reading your Twitter post and think this is great. Plus thought your job listings were a great service to highlight on our new anti-recession blog, http://www.economicrefreshin.blogspot.com.

Thanks for the inspiration, as always! - Julie

Posted by Julie Wright on December 12th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Sorry to have missed a great Tweetup! Hoping for a San Francisco Tweetup soon…

I am a recruiter with a niche in User Experience but recruit for many other positions as well -

Great openings include:

VP/Director of User Experience for Market Leader Mobile/Wireless Company

Head of User Experience/User Experience Lead/Senior Interaction Designer for Social Search Start-up

Applications Design Leader at New Quantitative Ad Network

Engineering Lead, Web Developer, Systems Engineers for Social Search Start-up

and much more! :

http://www.uxstation.com/index.php/job-seekers/ (updating soon.. (-; )

Twitter: teadjirbandee

Thanks for connecting the community in these crazy times..

Posted by Theresa Djirbandee on December 12th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Thanks Jeremiah for the heads up.

I can begin immediately, relocate and travel up to 100%. I speak German, French, English and Spanish.

I am presently looking for a position where I can interact directly with customers, engage & collaborate to enhance the design of products and services while provide insights into communications & user experience.

I am a recent grad from a Master of Science in Instructional Design. I have a passion for Social Media and I bring all of it in perspective with work experience from Germany, Mexico and the USA.

My resume, portfolio, podcasts & profile are here: mediaalchemy.org

Thank you for your time.

Arturo.

Posted by Arturo Pelayo on December 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

BARRACUDA NETWORKS IS HIRING!
(Campbell, Calif)

We have about 30 job openings right now in a variety of departments - engineering, sales, product management, support.

Please visit: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/company/careers.php

Good luck!

Regards,

Kylie Heintz
PR Director
Barracuda Networks Inc.
http://www.barracudanetworks.com

Posted by Kylie Heintz on December 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Jeremiah, thanks organizing this.

We need a strong account director/client service director who can led our account team - anyone interested?

http://snipurl.com/7w0cg

Look forward to hearing from you!

No recruiter or calls please!

William

Posted by William - e-Storm on December 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Hi Jeremiah;

Thanks for sending this along. I’ve written a blog article about how you used Twitter to organize this event!

http://www.twinkieandfirefly.com/2008/12/anatomy-of-tweetup.html

Regards;

-Wayne

Posted by Wayne on December 12th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Our career board has some postings
http://www.netsuite.com/portal/jobs.shtml

I also have an under the radar one for an email marketing guru. Tweet me if you want more info @NetSuite_Mei

Posted by Mei on December 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Dow Jones is hiring, I forogt to mention yesterday that we are looking for a position based in San Francisco selling solutions to VP of Sales - send me a note and I can put you in touch with the right people at Dow Jones/BRI/San Francisco.
sally.hammond@dowjones.com

Posted by Sally Hammond on December 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am

Jennifer Leggio @mediaphyter on twitter says Fortinet is hiring

http://fortinet.com/company/searchjob.html#support

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 14th, 2008 at 4:45 am

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Posted by socialized » SocialCorp included in “Three recommended ‘must-read’ social business books” on December 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am

A few NY Jobs have been put up:

http://webstrategy.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/find-jobs?

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 17th, 2008 at 7:25 am

A few more jobs

Intuit
http://www.intuit.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.searchJobs

Communispace
http://www.communispace.com/careers/

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 19th, 2008 at 7:10 am

More jobs at Lithium (Emerville)

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on December 19th, 2008 at 7:12 am

I’m an interactive marketing strategist with 16 years of experience, looking for opportunities in Social Media Marketing, Community Management.Agency or Client side.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredroy

Posted by jared roy on December 21st, 2008 at 8:28 am

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Hi Jeremiah-

I just wanted to introduce myself and my two companies for you to know about and possibly share with all your Silicon Valley friends and contacts who may be in need of a cool green agency to help design cool green events and/or in need of cool modern green furniture for their green marketing events.

We at Green Lab: design cool green events that don’t look green in design and is high on design concepts.

This year we opened a new version of our company called Modern Green Props to provide green furniture for rent to the event industry because people kept asking us where and if they could rent our furniture. For the last couple of years we didn’t rent our furniture. We build custom events and then we would sell the furniture to our clients or through Craigslist. But then once we created Green Lab and it took off, we realized that there is no one out there who has green furniture to rent or purchase that is MODERN, cool and eco friendly. So we created our own and now make it available to everyone.

So if in the future you or any of your Silicon Valley friends has a green product to launch and want a cool, hip, modern green agency to help produce and build your events. Don’t hesitate to call on us. We are all ways looking forward to working with cool high tech companies!

Love your Blog!!