Oh Mondays...the day that requires a good sense of humor.

I always try to find something that will amuse me just so I can make it through the first day of the week. Could you blame me? I didn't think so.

So what has me giggling inside. You guessed it. This guy!

This is David Perez. A regular 29-year-old recruiter for Leo Burnett. Now, I know what you must be thinking. That's great Abbie but nobody cares. Well trust me, you will care.

For six days (June 21-26) this poor fella will be at the mercy of a plethora of tweeters. As a bet this man has agreed to do whatever his twitter followers tell him to do, that is everything that is legal. Call me cruel, but I find this very exciting.

Now this is of course a semi-cheap ploy for his employer to gain some heavy publicity (gotta love social media!). But I wouldn't scream employer harassment just yet, especially since David will get a pretty sweet deal out of the whole debacle if he completes the the entire six days.

If you want to learn more you can go to CNN or Mashable to get the whole scoop. Until then I call upon my followers to help me think of some things we should have David do. Any ideas?

Whahahaaaaa......

Mark your calendars...it's time to celebrate

Do you love social media? Of course you do! And that is why I hope this blog post gets you excited because the time has come for us die hards to have our day...that is our day completely devoted to social media.

Thanks to the good ole folks at Mashable they are declaring June 30 as the internationally celebrated day of SOCIAL MEDIA. All across the globe Mashable is urging everyone to attend or organize a Social Media Day meetup.

This has been a long time coming if you ask me. Social media has completely revolutionized the way we communicate with one another. Plus, almost everyone does it. To think that Facebook was originally a social networking site for college students is laughable. Now that everyone and their mama, businesses, and much more are connected in some social media aspect it only makes since to have an international day to recognize it. I can only hope that one day it will become official.

So mark your calendars everyone and lets make social media history together!

Easy & Effective Webpages

How do job applicants get noticed in today's job market?

I have found myself asking that question a lot lately. To me, it seems that one would need more than a error free resume on ultra bright white paper. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel that a single piece of paper doesn't do anyone justice, and I didn't suffer through all those years of college just to have my resume passed over. So I have decided the best thing for me to do is escape the norm and to market myself using any and all resources possible. Lo and behold, Mashable introduced a brilliant idea. Design and Build an Attractive Personal Homepage with Flavors.me.

Flavors.me is a website that allows it's users to create an original homepage for themselves while showing their uniqueness and creativity. Not only that, it provides a space for viewers to look at one's social media sites (personal or professional) all in one place. I find this pretty awesome on the social media aspect because, for professional reasons, I now have a place for my potential employer to see my portfolio using Blogger. They can also access my Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter pages. And for those of you who are connected to other social media sites, Flavors.me is connected to 20+services.

If your like me and HTML is so not your thing then Flavors.me is perfect for you. Flavors.me takes a "just-add-water" approach on designing your page. Lets hear it for super easy!

Need to know info if you want a job

Remember a time when there was no Google? I do. It was pretty awful. Lucky for me I didn't have to go without it through college. That would have been tragic. Trust me, I cannot say enough good things about Google. However, it can come to bite you in le derrière (it's French...Google it)!

Ever heard the term Google me? In times of boredom/curiosity I have done just that. Turns out I am pretty much off the radar, but that doesn't go for everyone. When I applied for my internship you better believe I Googled the lovely Mrs. Lorens. I wanted to know who I was talking to. Sure enough my search led me to Facebook which led me to her profile. And BINGO! I now had a face to a name.

But this is not a one way street. Companies are now utilizing search engines and social media sites to get the dirt need to know information about YOU! This can work for you or against you. Lets face it though most people are not so squeaky clean. "Surveys indicate that as many as half of hiring managers use search engines to screen job applicants, and 1 in 10 have rejected potential employees because of damaging information on the web", so says Mashable.So what can one do?

Well for starters avoid incriminating yourself...but if your already past the point of no return it's then time to do some house cleaning.

Mashable wrote an article on How To: Erase Your Online Past. These eight handy tips are gonna hopefully save you some agony.