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Remember Your Bliss

I remember the Bill Moyers PBS series “The Power of Myth” when it first aired. It had a tremendous impact on me. I became a big fan of both Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) and Bill Moyers and was spellbound by their insightful dialogue.

Joseph Campbell was a mythologist, writer and lecturer. When he spoke about “following your bliss” it resonated with me – and millions of other people. That phrase became the most memorable part of the show, as is reflected in the attached video.

MOYERS: Do you ever have this sense, when you are following your bliss, as I have at moments, of being helped by hidden hands?

CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.

(Excerpted from “The Power of Myth,” by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, p. 150).

Read more about Joseph Campbell and bliss in my next post.

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The Rest of Carlos Hernandez’s Tips on Shining Using Social Media

This is the final part of 4 posts on Carlos Hernandez’s presentation, “Let Your Brilliance Shine in Social Media.” The rest of my notes are below:

Can you be found on Google? Try searching for yourself on-line and see what comes up.

Hernandez suggested NOT using the “like” button when using Facebook. Instead, if you see an article you like, highlight that URL and copy it, then in Facebook go to the tab for “link” and paste it there, and it will be imported to your Facebook screen.

Instead of using bookmarks or a favorites list, Hernandez suggested using delicious.com to create your own library. For ease, it’s then stored in the “cloud” and not on your computer.
He uses xeesm.com to keep track of all the social networks he is on.

Without having a twitter account you can go to search.twitter.com and see jobs posted there. Search by company or topic.

If you don’t post a photo of yourself it might give beg the question, what are you hiding?

Ninety minutes had gone by quickly. Hernandez said to remember that once you make contact and communicate with someone take it off-line and meet for coffee.

To read the San Francisco Magazine article about 18 people, including Carlos Hernandez, who reinvented themselves, go to Jeff Singer’s blog. Singer was the photographer for that story.

I hope you find some tips that will help you get noticed in social media universe.

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Carlos Hernandez on Using Social Media (part 3 of 4)

Shine On
This is the third of four installments summarizing the highlights of a talk given by Carlos Hernandez titled “Let Your Brilliance Shine in Social Media.” In part 1 we covered Hernandez’s general suggestions and in part 2 we covered LinkedIn. We pick up now with:

Twitter:

1) Don’t tell your friends you are looking for a job. Instead, share your brilliance and expertise.

2) Show what you’re reading, what you’re interested in (for instance, an article from the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg or the Business Times). Tweet an article, and write something like “This article rocks!”.

3) A way of showing what you’re interested in is to tweet that you’re attending a professional workshop. And here you can also ask “who else is going?”

4) Pay attention to the New York Times Business Section, page 2. Every Sunday a different hiring manager writes about what he/she is looking. Hernandez tweeted one of the quotes of a featured hiring manager and surprisingly, that manager replied to him.

Read tomorrow’s post for the rest of what Carlos Hernandez shared about using social media.