References and testimonials come in a variety of formats these days. Below I’ve laid out a few examples of some of the nice things people have had to say about me through a number of different mediums.
Video:
The following video features short plugs from Chris Brogan, which originally aired during his weekly Kitchen Table Talks show on The Pulse Network. Chris is the President of Human Business Works, co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Trust Agents and, as he demonstrates in the video, the owner of a healthy sense of humor.
(If you cannot see the video above, you can click here to watch it.)
Tweets:
I’m generally not in the practice of retweeting mentions of myself or complimentary tweets (you can read about my thoughts regarding this pet peeve in a post here). I’ve chosen instead to favorite those tweets, allowing my favorited tweets to serve as a reference page of sorts. The following is a sampling of those tweets:
https://twitter.com/#!/cc_chapman/status/170215696838574080
https://twitter.com/#!/MarketingProfs/status/157232667690147840
https://twitter.com/#!/CKsays/status/199947678816276481
https://twitter.com/#!/martysg/status/161656869591588865
https://twitter.com/#!/Pistachio/status/98081896851976192
*OneForty was subsequently bought by HubSpot and their blog was taken offline. If you’d like to read the post, you can do so here on Ragan’s PRDaily.com.
https://twitter.com/#!/markwschaefer/status/91906081021890560
https://twitter.com/#!/chrisbrogan/status/91562040593879041
Blogs:
Colleague and friend Lindsay Bell, a talented content creator whom I met through social media, wrote a blog post articulating some of the reasons why a company should consider hiring me. I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Social media marketing consultant Julia Campbell wrote an excellent post entitled How to use social media in your job search using some of efforts as examples for other job seekers.
Stefano Paganini, another social media consultant, chimed in from Italy with a post about me in follow-up to the Boston Globe piece about my use of social media on the job hunt.