Josue Sierra

Your Facebook profile may cost you a job or promotion.

In one University of Dayton survey of employers, 40 percent of respondents said they’d consider Facebook data when making hiring decisions. So while social- network lies might not immediately cost you a job, they could come back to haunt you. “We don’t know how long the information you post today will remain on the Web,” says Susan Barnes, associate director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology. “Once information is out there, it’s really difficult to erase.”

Have you audited your name on Google? Type in your full name in quotes, and see what comes up. Chances are your potential boss did the same thing. While there is no need to panic for stuff that is obviously not yours, if you did post up pictures of last New Year’s party, you might want to consider taking them down. Consider that it can take up to 3 months for a search engine or directory to update its index, so don’t leave it for last minute.

HT: Urban Onramps

Rob Neppell just launched a new company:

Kithbridge, Inc. was launched as an evolution of one of the blogosphere’s original and most successful blog-tracking sites, The Truth Laid Bear. While The Truth Laid Bear provides a portal and blog search engine for individual bloggers and blog-readers, Kithbridge provides customized technology, services, and strategies for businesses, political campaigns, nonprofits, and other organizations which seek to fully engage with the growing and dynamic world of the blogosphere and new media.

Kithbridge’s founder and president is Rob Neppell, known online by the pseudonym “N.Z. Bear”. In 2002, Rob created the first and still-definitive blog tracking system, The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, and over the past five years has earned a reputation as one of the key innovators in the new world of weblogs and citizens’ media.

If your company is wanting to make inroads in the world of new media, Rob is your man. You can read more here.

I’ll be part of a panel discussing blogs, and online writting at this year’s WJI Conference for Minority Journalists of Faith. You can see the full list of educators who will be presenting.

Professional and college journalists of faith will gather together for the annual World Journalism Institute weekend conference for minority journalists of faith. The conference will take place at The King’s College in midtown Manhattan.

This unique conference is designed to provide the Christian minority journalist with a brief introduction to the courses and networking of the World Journalism Institute.

Those who attend will be encouraged and challenged to integrate their Christian faith and journalism practice in a fashion appropriate for today’s mainstream newsrooms. The conference is an opportunity to meet other like-minded journalists from around the country to discuss issues facing the minority journalist of faith.

The conference will be composed of lectures, seminars, media tours and fellowship. The third annual Samuel R. Cornish Lecture will be given in honor of Cornish, who founded the first African-American newspaper.

ENROLLMENT CAP
Enrollment for the weekend conference is limited only by classroom size. Carpe diem!

COST
Because of generous underwriting, a registration fee of $50 is the cost. World Journalism Institute will provide meals and some classroom materials.

I’ll be heading out to Houston TX on Thursday for NSHMBA’s 18th Annual Conference and Career Expo. I’ll be saying a few words at a the Proctor & Gamble Luncheon, but otherwise its going to be just a time to meet up with our members, and do some networking. You can learn more and register by going to the NSHMBA web site.

Thousands of Hispanic MBA students and professionals will attend the conference looking for career opportunities and professional development. In addition to a very informative conference of business issues, NSHMBA organizes perhaps one of the most preeminent career expos around to provide Hispanic students an opportunity to network with the corporate recruiters.

Last year was yet another success with 6,800 of the best and the brightest Hispanic MBAs professionals and students, 237 corporations, and 74 academic institutions attending. Each year the event has grown and this year we are expecting more than 7,000 attendees.

Dates: October 4 -6, 2007

Career Expo Dates: October 5 & 6, 2007

Expected Attendance: over 7,000

Conference Location:
George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida de las Americas
Houston, TX 77010