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Of course, there are income possibilities that exist outside of trying to find a job.

Since so many are talking about being more creative during this economic slump, why not think outside the box of looking to work for another in the first place? I know, I know, but stay with me for a moment.

It’s amazing that there are plenty of skill sets that are for whatever reason not “conventional” enough to be taught in schools, but the mastery of which would lead to more autonomy.

Most of us are trained to be employees- nothing wrong with that, but thinking that way can be a kind of tunnel vision that keeps many from learning skills that would allow them to carve out their own path to income and contribution.

One of them is as close as the computer in front of you. No really, for the first time in history, we are 3 feet in front of the world, yet few learn how to use it in a way to render 1) value to others and 2)income for themselves.

There ARE ways to learn this stuff, if you can avoid all the junk and find good and reputable sources.

leavethejobbehind.com

Job referrals are 225% more effective than applying to job board postings, according to a study by CareerXRoads.

We welcome you to visit our site and join in.

Gladwell talks about a study by Mark Granovetter, conducted in 1973, titled “The Strength of Weak Ties”. The link to the paper is below, but in short – he talks about how a person’s weak ties are indispensable to their opportunities and integration into their community…

So it isn’t that people need to be developing deep social ties in order to find jobs – the networking is what counts.

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people/mgranovetter/documents/granstrengthweakties.pdf

As I mentioned above, it’s based on people who are connected to my community, mostly social media users. It’s people connected to my on twitter, and on my blog (who happen to be reading this now)

It’s not a broad sample I would send to a newspaper, or be used in an employment survey –but it’s a start that can help those that are already connected.

We do have data that shows that Social Media isn’t for just the minority anymore, see this data
http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2008/10/new-2008-social.html

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Also, are you implying that the Technographics data counts people who READ a website that happens to have social features as consumers of social media? So is everyone who reads a newspaper site count in the “spectator” rung of the ladder even if they never use the social features such as commenting? That would seem to be a stretch to me.

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