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Boston Globe: Blogs 'essential' to a good career

Blogging is good for your career, says The Boston Globe, because a well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

Blogging gives you a way to control what employers -- who regularly Google potential hires -- see, because Google's system works in such a way that blogs that are heavily networked with others come up high in Google searches. The advantages of blogging include:

Blogging creates a network.

Maintaining an active blog helps you really get to know your topic well; great training for a job.

Blogging could be your big break.

And my favorite:

Blogging makes the world a better place.

That's because networked bloggers are adding to the information pool instead of always just taking information provided by others.

Categories: Blogging and Moblogging

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I would like to add one:

- Blogging permite that your possible recruiters know you perfectly and the possibilities of mistake in the process are less than other people without blog

Posted by: Javi Guardiola at April 18, 2006 3:25 AM

I can see a key job interview question in the future being, "What content have you produced on the Web?" Not necessarily, "What's your blog about," but more like, "What ideas have you generated and how have you spread them?" Nice post, B.L. Gives me confidence in my line of work!

Posted by: Easton Ellsworth at April 20, 2006 11:11 AM

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Blogger, social media strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and sought-after corporate speaker B.L. Ochman heads the creative team of whatsnextonline.com. She also publishes the Ethics Crisis blog for SRF Global Translations

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