Entries from November 2009 ↓

twitter on LinkedIn?

Recently, like many of you probably, I received an email from LinkedIn encouraging me to make my twitter account visible on my LinkedIn profile and also installing their Tweets app to manage my tweets within LinkedIn (I’m already using TweetDeck).  Which got me thinking:
do I want twitter on LinkedIn? why am I even considering this?
My professional persona [...]

salary surveys

As many of you are going through the recruiting process now I felt I should address one of the many questions I get:
what is the typical salary range for a given position?
Now, of course, because we are the little guy we don’t have access to current salary surveys (they cost a fortune) but we do have access to [...]

competitor site statistics?

Ever wondered what kind of website traffic your competitors are getting?  Wonder what good benchmarks are?  Want to amp up your online marketing / SEO efforts by not only analyzing your own stats but those of comparable companies? Well, recently I stumbled upon Compete.com.
Compete.com is a web analytics company with both free and paid service offerings.  However, for us [...]

google currency converter

Today one of my clients showed me the coolest thing!  OK, let me preface that: the coolest thing for finance people who need a quick currency conversion.  Go to the google search field and type:
65,000 euros in canadian dollars
What was the first response?  The actual converted amount.  Very FREAKIN’ cool!  They have a built-in currency [...]