[Web4lib] Librarian seeking a job using facebook ads

[Stewart Baker]

Pretty fascinating, although a billboard would be a lot more expensive than
facebook ads!

Here's hoping it works out equally well for the librarian in question.
(Maybe I should get my wife to try this.  Anybody need an
artist/illustrator? ;)  )

Stewart

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And there was the woman (actually there has been more than one story
> like this) who placed an ad on a billboard.
>
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> http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010109dnmetbillboardjobsearch.261a52d2.html
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> Sharon M. Foster, 99% Librarian (waiting for the official okey-dokey
> to change it to 100%)
> Speaker-to-Computers
> http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
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> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Alison Cody <alisonkc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Different industry, but it worked for this guy!
> >
> >
> http://consumerist.com/5264703/jobless-guy-buys-facebook-ads-to-land-microsoft-gig
> >
> > --
> > Alison K. Cody
> > Public Relations & Instruction Librarian
> > Loyola/Notre Dame Library
> > Baltimore, MD
> >
> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Stewart Baker <
> stewart.c.baker at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Has anybody else seen the ads on Facebook that are from a librarian
> seeking
> >> employment?
> >>
> >> I think that's a pretty interesting idea, but have to wonder if the
> guy's
> >> got any chances of getting a job from it.  I know plenty of librarians
> who
> >> do browse facebook (on those slow reference shifts, for instance) but
> I'm
> >> not sure it's the best place to advertise yourself.  I suppose it does
> get
> >> your name out there, though.
> >>
> >> Regardless, it's a welcome change from all those "Make $4,456,000,000
> >> hourly
> >> from your home!" scam ads I see.
> >>
> >> Anybody have any thoughts?
> >> --
> >> Stewart Baker
> >> Reference / Web Services Librarian
> >> CSU Dominguez Hills Library
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Stewart Baker