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The blogging 101 workshop, at Jobing.com on Monday was quite an experience. As always, I ended up having a great learning experience myself. More on that later.

The topic, Using Blogging and Social Networking to Support Your Job Search, comes with a bunch of disclaimers. At the risk of seeming repetitive, I have to say that a blog will not and should not replace a resume. It may enhance your resume, but better still it gives you a way to rethink how you work on your resume. Or your reputation out there.

A resume, after all is a way to capture your reputation system on a sheet of paper, which is an odd thing to have to do in this day and age. That sheet of paper needs to become a living document, and not something that lives in a folder.

I happen to think that a blog is easier to maintain than a resume. Certainly much easier than a web site. (A few people in the audience had personal web sites. I do, too, and it’s a royal pain to update.) Indeed, a blog requires more care and feeding at the initial stage, but once you set up some good blogging habits, use a few simple tools and tricks, it’s not a huge chore.

Once you compare how limited you are with some of the existing tactics you use to define who you are, and what your potential is, a blog becomes a no-brainer.

: Comparison between different reputation ‘tools’

Big thank you to Pat Elliott for getting me involved with the Scottsdale Job Network.

It could be filed under “sign of the times,” together with the gas theft from cars.

But this story struck me as a very brave act of job seeking. Gilbert resident Corey Gibisch, a recently laid off employee, took to the streets to get his resume out. No one should ever have to get to this point. But instead of feeling bad for him, I would applaud him for this:

He got more attention with 100 resumes than he would have at a job fair
He got into the media without pitching his story
His sign was all about the place he liked to work in, rather than about himself
He snagged thirty business cards –leads, in his case. Do the math. 120 minutes, 100 resumes, 3o leads

Whoever hires Mr. Gibisch will have a lucky find –and a very interesting answer to anyone who asks “where did you find this guy?”