Do you go to networking events to harvest email addresses for your newsletter? You might want to re-think that strategy. Read why social media guru Chris Brogan thinks this is a poor way to market yourself.

I’ve written before about being careful about what your social media profile might say to potential employers. The City of Bozeman, Montana took its vetting process a step further by asking applicants for municipal jobs to provide all login and password information for social networking and blog sites.

Here’s an interesting article from the Harvard Business Review discussing the struggle some corporate executives face with using social media.

Have you seen the prank videos from a couple of bored Domino’s employees in Conover? Before they were removed from YouTube at the request of the employee who shot it (whether or not she was pressured to do so by corporate), they garnered a million views.

The blogosphere is abuzz this week after a column by Seth Rogan, a well-known marketing consultant, entitled “Personal Branding in the Age of Google.” Seth explored the results of Googling three housekeeper job applicants: