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Apr 28, 2015 10:48:43 GMT -5
Post by Opti on Apr 28, 2015 10:48:43 GMT -5
You missed my point. The information you are tweeting isn't exactly earth shattering, and probably people with average computer skillz can locate it. Its not supposed to be earth shattering. It is supposed to be one of many examples. And sadly no, people of average computer skills usually won't figure out what I plan to tweet or a least part of it.
I'm using a new locked down system where I can't even look at how they've named the hospitals and the only place I find evidence of it is a report where the field is too short to hold the full name that was chosen. At a quick glance both campuses look identical in the reports. Because I noticed a space in the one report, I have a high degree of confidence that the names chosen were not Long Hospital Name City1 and Long Hospital Name City2, but Long Hospital Name and Long Hospital Name City2.
But your probably correct, that process of elimination might be on Google somewhere.
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Opti
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Apr 28, 2015 11:01:51 GMT -5
Post by Opti on Apr 28, 2015 11:01:51 GMT -5
That is all. Agreed, mainly because I can't explain why it makes sense nor do I want to. All of social media is a tool. Whether FB, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, your own blog, own website, etc. makes sense is based on a person circumstances which include time, money and perceived payoff.
I know you are all so much wiser than Dark and I about computers. But there was probably more than one reason that his FB was going to be is website page as well for his business. It may have even been the right solution given all his constraints, but the majority of PB posters were having none of it. With my constraints this is a choice I am willing to pursue.
Maybe I should lock this thread or throw in some chum elsewhere.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:07:30 GMT -5
Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 28, 2015 11:07:30 GMT -5
You're trolling aren't you? Seriously, now, you can tell me I won't tell anyone. People use Twitter to keep up with the Kardashians or stalk their favorite stars or entertain/draw attention to themselves. A few use it for more intelligent things but I can't even imagine anyone will follow you or find your rantings about your job interesting. I don't even know how I'd come across you since the only way I've found stuff is to search for it myself. Then again, I use Twitter to keep up with some favorite shows or celebrities, like MOST OF THE WORLD, so maybe I just missed a way to get random updates.
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Opti
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Apr 28, 2015 11:08:07 GMT -5
Post by Opti on Apr 28, 2015 11:08:07 GMT -5
Are any of you actual Twitter users? Do you have a significant friends/followers around 400 or so? Do you read tweets daily or even weekly? If so on the latter, how have you put yourself in the mindset to ignore the big number of tweets you must receive and just pay attention to a few and focus on tweeting relevant content?
I only follow people that have captured my attention from another media source. For example, people who post cogent, relevant papers on LinkedIn. If I like what I see I will follow their twitter account. My interest in their tweets does not originate from Twitter. I read tweets as they arrive, that is the intention of the communication methodology. I don't receive billions of tweets because I limit who I subscribe to. If you tweet many times a day, I will terminate the following because that is just annoying. That's what I will figure out. What power users do on various platforms and what one should do in their own situation is often different. I know I don't like LinkedIn contacts that give me more than one update a week. LinkedIn is becoming a professional FB so its less useful to me than it was in the past as a networking tool. Screening out third level people unless you have a paid subscription is an issue.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:14:11 GMT -5
Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 28, 2015 11:14:11 GMT -5
There seem to be a lot of young computer geeks on Reddit. (Connected computer geeks that work in silicon valley.) There also seem to be quite a few on the mrmoneymustache forum as well. Maybe you should see what people over there think about your idea? I don't have a sub-reddit in mind, as I go there rarely, but I'm sure you can find your people and they'll understand what you are trying to accomplish.
Just a thought...
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Post by TheHaitian on Apr 28, 2015 11:18:46 GMT -5
Seriously you would be better off getting a Tumblr account and start a blog there and link it to your LinkedIn account.
Really? We are not BS'ing you and your case and Dark Case are not at all the same.
I am a manager, I just turned 30, I do hiring... I am your target audience, LISTEN to me or keep complaining about not getting a full time job and ignoring the obvious signs.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:18:49 GMT -5
Post by Iggy aka IG on Apr 28, 2015 11:18:49 GMT -5
My two cents: I am finding more and more people moving away from having a website and focusing more on social media. And, around here anyway, younger folks use Instagram, and not many older folks tweet.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:32:34 GMT -5
Post by Opti on Apr 28, 2015 11:32:34 GMT -5
Seriously you would be better off getting a Tumblr account and start a blog there and link it to your LinkedIn account. Really? We are not BS'ing you and your case and Dark Case are not at all the same. I am a manager, I just turned 30, I do hiring... I am your target audience, LISTEN to me or keep complaining about not getting a full time job and ignoring the obvious signs. You are not my target audience. My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills. I plan to ignore almost all advice given here.
Dark case and mine somewhat similar. I am also constrained by hardware, time & money.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:33:12 GMT -5
Post by NancysSummerSip on Apr 28, 2015 11:33:12 GMT -5
1) Are any of you actual Twitter users?
2) Do you have a significant friends/followers around 400 or so? 3) Do you read tweets daily or even weekly?
4) If so on the latter, how have you put yourself in the mindset to ignore the big number of tweets you must receive and just pay attention to a few and focus on tweeting relevant content?
1) Yes 2) Yes 3) Yes 4) I can tell by experience the difference between sponsored content (the "spam" that gets tweeted by companies looking to sell/advertise crap) and relevant content because I follow a select number of people in my particular field of interest. I see their tweets, and I know I want to read those. I also have a good idea of who those people follow, and if I see tweets from them, I read them. Sometimes those "secondary tweets," as I call them, turn out to be worthy of a Follow. I also read tweets from publications I respect, partly because some food industry publications are either not available to the general public at all, or a subscription is very expensive. Following the tweets can often get you access to the articles. Some tweets get ignored purely on the basis of their association with something, rather than the person. For example, I don't follow the majority of celebrity/TV food people because most of them just don't interest me; they are more about the famous person than the food. I do follow a few of those I respect, because they still have integrity, knowledge and have not become complete sell-outs to the cult of cooking TV.
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Post by TheHaitian on Apr 28, 2015 11:40:57 GMT -5
Seriously you would be better off getting a Tumblr account and start a blog there and link it to your LinkedIn account. Really? We are not BS'ing you and your case and Dark Case are not at all the same. I am a manager, I just turned 30, I do hiring... I am your target audience, LISTEN to me or keep complaining about not getting a full time job and ignoring the obvious signs. You are not my target audience. My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills. I plan to ignore almost all advice given here.
Dark case and mine somewhat similar. I am also constrained by hardware, time & money.
Please ignore all advice and I am betting my next paycheck you will still be looking for a FT job this time next year. Good luck! And "My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills. " Before you target them don't you think YOU would need updated knowledge on how software and hardware really works. But hey you got all the answers yet still Manage to be unable to land a job. What does that tell you? But please continue to ignore all the Obvious signs. See you same time next year
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 28, 2015 11:42:26 GMT -5
then what was the point of starting this thread? You have been here long enough to know that YM is not the place to come if you are only looking for yes-men.
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Post by milee on Apr 28, 2015 11:42:30 GMT -5
You are not my target audience. My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills. I plan to ignore almost all advice given here.
Dark case and mine somewhat similar.
And so far, you're both having similar results when you "ignore almost all advice given here".
Granted, not all advice on the YM board is good. There are times when the entire group misses the mark on a particular subject in the short term. But overall, it's a reasonably intelligent group with varied experience that offers generally solid advice. And for posters who post repeatedly over the years, the group tends to get a pretty good read on the situation and hone in on solid issues and recommendations.
We all have things we flub. We all have times when we're onto something and others don't get it, but we know it will work out. But when it gets to the point when our entire life is going to hell and we still think everybody else is the problem, then it's time to reassess. Seriously. It's not meant to be harsh, although you tend to take anything other than total agreement as criticism.
The path you're on isn't getting you what you want. It makes sense to try to figure out why and how you can take a different path. Lots of good advice here on how to do that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 11:45:30 GMT -5
am I dumb/slow? Because I'm really not getting the point behind this... Whew! I'm glad to see that someone younger, smarter and surely more media savvy than me worte this.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 28, 2015 11:49:45 GMT -5
My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and
hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills
You do realize those people have moved way beyond Twitter by now correct? There have been many new social media outlets launched since Twitter. They are not going to be impressed that you just now discovered how to use it.
If you're really intent on this you should probably find forums/blogs that serve the people who you desire to actually talk to and see what they suggest rather than telling all of us here on YM we simply can't recognize your brilliance. If you are as brilliant as you claim those people should agree with you.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:57:27 GMT -5
Post by Opti on Apr 28, 2015 11:57:27 GMT -5
You are not my target audience. My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills. I plan to ignore almost all advice given here.
Dark case and mine somewhat similar. I am also constrained by hardware, time & money.
Please ignore all advice and I am betting my next paycheck you will still be looking for a FT job this time next year. Good luck! And "My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skills. " Before you target them don't you think YOU would need updated knowledge on how software and hardware really works. But hey you got all the answers yet still Manage to be unable to land a job. What does that tell you? But please continue to ignore all the Obvious signs. See you same time next year Back atcha. Me in any FT job versus you still living in your house and its not for sale.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 11:59:00 GMT -5
SMH because you are really missing the mark, even if you are targeting a specific software. "the few, the wise" is really an insulting statement & I wonder if you realize that? In every Operations job I have had, it has been a requirement to understand software/hardware in order to do the job. This included understanding business requirements clearly to select the right software since implementations can range anywhere from $100K to $2M. I have written user guides, configured systems, designed data sets to properly allow for reporting extracts that are meaningful and easy to use. Your dismissal of the business knowledgeable people here is really a disservice to yourself. I am sure you will lock this thread because we are disagreeing with you, and somehow you take that personally, but it doesn't help you make any meaningful progress to be that closed off. I am glad that your life seems to be going smoother. I'm just not sure how you get yourself to where you want to be when you think you know better than everyone else and can't accept logical input. I'm open to being wrong, or thinking in alternate paths (like now thinking about how millennials use social media, rather than what my generation does). I'd also care a lot about what Haitian says, because he's exactly right that he's 'the guy' that's hiring us now!
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Post by milee on Apr 28, 2015 12:03:56 GMT -5
My target audience is the few, the wise who understand how software and
hardware really works and is more focused on transferable skillsYou do realize those people have moved way beyond Twitter by now correct? There have been many new social media outlets launched since Twitter. They are not going to be impressed that you just now discovered how to use it. Nor are they going to be impressed with the content if it is similar to the examples given. I can think of a dozen reasons off the top of my head that the particular naming convention for the hospitals was used; it may be suboptimal for OP's use, but that doesn't indicate it's a mistake or that it's not the best compromise.
So the example tweets are likely to show lack of big picture thinking and also to piss off any people at those particular hospitals (or their software vendors) that might be looking to hire.
Again, Opti, it's not that people are trying to pick at you, but if you want to change things don't you want to know when you're heading down the wrong path? Nothing about this idea makes any sense and a lot of it is likely to actually have the opposite effect from what you're trying to achieve.
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Post by TheHaitian on Apr 28, 2015 12:08:16 GMT -5
OP is dismissing an important fact that Drama herself posted on the job hunt thread.
The people doing the "initial" hiring/scheduling interviews or rejecting your resume are not the "few" , the "wise" OP is trying to work for.
But hey dismiss them.... You think HR is looking at your tweets and thinking: hey I want to hire her?
HR knows nothing about my needs in a new department manager job they just posted for me unless they have been doing it long enough. But they knew the key factors I ask them to look for before sending me a resume or rejecting it: - recent experience - relevant experience - time doing the job - where and when? - past jobs - current title /position and where?
And since our jobs are offered to current. Employees first; if I don't find the people I want from that I open to the public and I have a few key things I tell her to look for...
Also they use a software (icims) that from the list of 100 questions they ask you determine how fit you are to do the job. Any score below 60 automatically disqualifies you unless you have some extremely redeeming qualities.
Before you get to the smartest and wisest you have to get through the hiring process, HR... And with your attitude I doubt you will.
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Apr 28, 2015 12:09:08 GMT -5
Post by Opti on Apr 28, 2015 12:09:08 GMT -5
I deeply apologize for mistakes in posting. I regret falling to my human weakness of posting while very sick and groggy with sleep and allergy meds.
So to protect myself from not posting or reading this thread, it will be locked by my request. While I realize this may be a deep and horrific inconvenience perhaps someone else can start a thread for posters to entertain themselves with.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Apr 28, 2015 12:12:24 GMT -5
This thread has been locked at the request of OP.
BG - Admin YM & YMOT
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