It's true. Every day people are thinking up more creative ways to use the social networks we already have. Some people think social networks are for the self-involved or the exhibitionist, but the longer these networks are in place, the more avenues we discover from them.
Brian McCullough, writer of the blog JobBored, writes blogposts to answer people's questions about how to find and secure a job. After answering a good deal of these questions, he realized he could use Twitter to more effectively connect people in their job searches. If he could get all of his readers to follow his twitter account, JobEachDay, that twitter account would be a community of job seekers. He could then randomly pick one user each day to tweet their question instead of submitting it just to him. Instead of receiving his answer, they could receive answers from many of the followers and anyone else listening on Twitter.
It's the old two heads are better than one.
With so many educated people on Twitter, the chances of someone reading the question of the day and being able to answer it or maybe even provide a job opportunity are very high. Plus, since everyone is different, JobEachDay will produce many solutions to each problem, so the tweeter can get a wealth of advice all at once, completely free. This may put a market of resume builders and cover letter wizards out of business.
Or, it may prove to be another kind of information hub just as wikis and info sites like ChaCha and e-How also utilized the knowledge of the crowd.
To read more about the JobEachDay experiment, click here.
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