Over at Rabbit (the day job), we’ve just switched over to Tumblr.   Rather than use Tumblr to host a scrapbook somewhere outside our main website, we’ve used it to house the site itself making us (we think) one of the first European agencies to have done so.

And so, as this site is all about stats it seems appropriate to put forward some Tumblr themed ones.

Tumblr of course isn’t new.    Time Magazine listed it as one of its top fifty websites as far back as 2007.    However, in particular over the past six months it has gained a lot of traction.

According to Comscore’s 2010 US digital year in review, Tumblr was on 6.7 million US users in December which is still small compared to Twitter (23.6 million US users), LinkedIn (30 million users) or even the shrinking MySpace (50 million users).   However that represents growth of 128%.

Looking at Alexa, Tumblr is actually ahead of MySpace, ranking no.59 in the top 500 website list, with MySpace at no.65 (via SocialMediaNz).   And Compete similarly has Tumblr up from 3.9 million unique visitors in January 2010 to 10 million by the end of the year.

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The best way to show off your resume on Facebook.

This is a guest post by Claudio Nader. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.

Want a resume that looks like this?

Why this is a great idea

Many job seekers kick off their job search with an email to everyone they know asking for leads. A common problem is that after a few weeks or months, friends and family forget that they’re still looking for a job.

Your Facebook profile resume will constantly remind every visitor about your job search without you needing to send followups. Then when a lead comes to mind, they’ll just need to click ‘Share Profile’.

Now, when sending that first job search announcement, tell people to follow your Facebook profile to see if you’re still available.

Pretty clever, right?

How it works

The new Facebook profile layout displays your last 5 tagged photos across the top, while showing your profile picture on the left.

• Use your profile picture for a headshot and a brief but hard-hitting summary of your skills & achievements
• Use the tagged photos as banners for each of your print resume’s sections
• The caption of each banner image ...

Over the past year or so I have worked with lots of people – as individuals and in groups of colleagues – helping them to understand how they might use Linkedin effectively.   The strong message from my clients was that they understood that Linkedin could be useful but they were not sure how – and were not clear about what they needed to do to make it  work for them.

At this stage I still feel a bit like a proud parent. I have watched those clients taking their first tentative steps with some moving on faster than others. Some of the activity has been obviously focused – others ‘experimental’. A few have fallen by the wayside which is to be expected as using social media tools won’t suit everyone. For those who have stuck with it I see many different – and interesting –  applications. eg a friend who is about to travel to New Zealand on a study trip used it to make contacts before she goes.

Linkedin of course offers up suggestions for people we might connect with and on an almost daily basis one of those suggestions will be someone who has no profile and 1 connection. With people like them in mind I wondered if this list of the 10 ...

Recently I presented on the topic of Social Media and Your Job Search in front of a large group of executives, many of whom were in transition.  As with any professional crowd, nearly everyone was already comfortable with LinkedIn, but less than half of the attendees had ventured out onto Twitter yet.  I sensed some confusion about Twitter, so today instead of blogging about Twitter and Personal Branding or Twitter and the Job Search, I felt it was time to write a blog post to help hand-hold those that are still confused by Twitter but really want to give it a shot without any risk.  With that in mind, this is your Twitter 101 Getting Started on Twitter Guide based on 7 tips that I hope you’ll find useful.

I am not going to go through all of the screenshots you will see when you sign up with Twitter, but I will point out 7 useful tips that I recommend you follow upon signing up to Twitter to get you started risk-free:

1) Use your personal e-mail address for your Twitter account.  Yesterday I tweeted a story about someone who lost access to their Twitter account after they left their job.  You may never be able to retrieve your password ...

Running a business online has a lot of perks, one of them being that you can often do it without a lot of pricey overhead.  However, there are still some expenses involved, so it’s nice when you come across free tools that make running your business just a little bit easier.

Here are three of my favorites, all of which I use on a regular basis and recommend you explore as well.

Audacity: I often use audio in my business, whether it be to interview others, to hold teleseminars or to upload a quick greeting to a sales page on my website.  Many times the audio I’ve recorded needs to be edited—nothing fancy, but perhaps I want to add on a quick intro or cut out some of the chit chat at the beginning of a teleclass recording.  This tool makes it so easy, and while most of the time I use it for very simple tasks, if you take time to explore it you’ll find it can do a lot of very cool things.

Evernote: Evernote works by connecting all the computers and phones you use, giving you the ability to capture something in one place and then access it from another.  I use it on my MacBook, my iPhone and my husband’s PC to store notes, to-do lists, and important links. ...