Brad Schepp - How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Other Social Networks

How to FIND A JOB on LinkedIn Facebook MySpace Twitter
AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS

Brad and Debra Schepp

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To my coauthor, husband, and best friend, Brad.
Youve always been the center of my every network.
DS

To Deb, what you said. Youve always been better with words.
BS

Its always a challenge to thank every person who has helped us turn a manuscript into a book. Under any circumstance, that represents a pretty big crowd. Open that up to the 35 million people currently on LinkedIn, and Hercules would begin to get nervous. Beyond that, the entire world of social networking could conceivably deserve a nod because the number of people who were willing to connect with us and share their experiences includes folks from half a dozen other social networks in addition to LinkedIn. All we can do is our best and hope that anyone who doesnt see his or her name here will understand that at some point thankyous have to stop and the book begin. We appreciate every e-mail you sent, every question you answered, and every bit of wisdom you provided to us. So here goes; our best shot.

First of all, wed like to thank our agent, Bill Gladstone, of Waterside, Inc., for once again being a true advocate for our work. Youve never let us down, Bill, and we appreciate that. Knox Huston at McGraw-Hill has rightfully earned a place among our favored editors. Hes smart, savvy, kind, and agreeable. What else is there for writers to ask for? On the McGraw-Hill production team, wed also like to thank Daina Penikas, Jim Madru, and Penny Linskey. We hope our manuscript wasnt a headache-producer!

So many people were kind enough to respond to our requests for information about how they used social networking sites: Dwight Robinson, Patty and Doug Gale, Sharon DeLay, Kristen Kouk, David Becker, Steven Burda, Virginia Backaitis, Elizabeth Garazelli, Dave Stevens, Scott Bradley, Laurier Tiernan, Rayanne Langdon, Kama Linden, Sarah Caron, Miriam Salpeter, Tracy Gosson, Lorne Epstein, Ben Thompson, Jason Alba, Megan Owen, Ruth-Ann Cooper, Eric Kiker, Simon Stapleton, Jocelyn Wang, Tim McMahan, Tracy Bagatelle-Black, Kenny Golde, Gary Dale, Kellie Schroeder, Robb Hecht, Dr. Scott Testa, Bob Wilson, Matt Batt, Jay Zipursky, Evo Terra, Kim Woodbridge, Susan Schwartz, Marina S. Martin, Gordon Whyte, John S. Rajeski, Leslie Carothers, Josh Chernin, Jeff Ragovin, Jacqueline Wolven, Anne Pryor, Priss Benbow, Karen Jashinsky, Chuck Hester, Mike ONeil, Pinny Cohen, Todd Herschberg, Terrence Seamon, Stephen Weinstein, Gary Unger, and Ralph Lagnado.

We tapped public relations and press representatives often, and they were always responsive to our requests and supportive of our research. Thanks go out to John McCrea (Plaxo), Athena von Oech (Ning), Michael Weiss (Robert Half International), Peter Shankman (and his invaluable Help A Reporter Out Web site), Jeremy Downs (whose Peek e-mail device made life so much easier every day), Yee Wah (Xing), and Andrew Lipsman (Com-score), and a big tip of the hat goes to Krista Canfield, the public relations manager at LinkedIn. This book simply would still be in the making were it not for your competencies at your jobs.

On a smaller scale, wed like, as always, to thank our family, who listened to endless conversations about social networking. We can easily grant our kids and their significant others the discovery of this amazing phenomenon and thank them for first sharing it with us. We hope to have paid you back with a book that you can use as you launch your own careers, which are bound to dazzle us, as your achievements always have. So Ethan, Stephanie, Andrew, and Laurel, thanks for listening and sharing too! To relatives and friends far and near, were now open to accepting invitations to dinner and weekend getaways, so please invite us again.