Successful Unemployment

Dear All,

I recently gave an interview to an editor of Magazine for Professional Engineers (from NSPE), about how engineers and other technical professionals can further their careers by utilizing various social media tools. The interview was published in the May 10th, 2010 issue of the magazine.

During the interview,  I gave a number of specific examples of how Linkedin, Twitter and blogs have helped me become better-known as an expert in my field of work.

I also gave advice on how various social media outlets can help technical professionals get a new business of the ground, or simply further their professional career. Now I’d like to share these tips with you!!

Here are some excepts form the interview article:

“If you enter into social networking trying to sell [yourself] of every blog post, tweet and Facebook update..you will fail miserably..and then complain that social networking is a waste of time.”

“If you use social tools to provide relevant, interesting information to the community you serve, she says, you will increase your company’s credibility or your standing as an expert in the field.”

If you would like to read more about how to get started with social media, in order to grow as a professional scientists or engineer, the  PDF of the entire article is here:

http://mvpmodelingsolutions.com/PE_Mag_Interview.pdf

And in case you’re wondering, my company  ”dedicated to improving engineering R&D processes” is MVP Modeling Solutions (not sure why the editors decided to remove that from the article).  I also have no idea why the editor choose to use YouTube snapshot of prison inmates dancing to “Thriller”…or why they decided to plop it next to my photo.  A bit disturbing,  if you ask.  I am still thankful to have been interviewed by the magazine!

Please let me know your thoughts!

Cheers,

Masha