Before the domains (16 of them) I had mentioned in my previous posts, I had actually registered 8 based on Careers Resources, seven of which are merely forwarded to the main .com site.
The subjects of careers, jobs and employment are currently very relevant to my life as I’ve been looking for a new job for quite some time. Needless to say, in the current economic climate, this is a very frustrating pastime. In years past, I would just go out and get the new job that I desired. Heck, for my last four positions, I wasn’t even required to fill out an application, or even submit a resume before being hired.
Anyway, I need to give a big thanks to Alex for announcing my site launch here at the Beach – not to mention all the other nice things he said! Alex was one of a small handful of Squidoo friends with whom I had shared the site with before I was ready to go public with it.
I started a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/CareersResource) and started getting some pretty good traffic, unfortunately, with so many people clicking around the site, all the cracks started to show. I haven’t had time to announce the launch here myself because I’ve spent the last two days watching the access and error logs, then trying to stomp out all those little bugs that showed up!
Launching a new site just days before a major Holiday – What was I thinking!?
Still, it’s nice to have Internet-savvy online friends to bounce ideas such as this off of before facing the brutal masses! I did make a few changes based on that feedback before posting on Twitter. I’m sure I gave a good first impression to many of my vistors, despite some of the mishaps!
What a difference from my first site launch! I had no one with experience with site-building or producing online content that I could really get an opinion from back then.
My first site is currently back in the sandbox as I figure out a way to restart it, but at least it is what originally brought me to Squidoo, an experience worth going through again! I’ve learned so much there, and connected with so many wonderful people, and this is my first attempt to take what I’ve learned and see what I can do with that knowledge outside of a prefabricated environment.
That’s not to say I’m done with Squidoo, far from it! The Squidoo community is very strong, and is, in my opinion, an excellent place to stay involved with as the digital landscape continues to change and grow.
In fact, there’s a good chance that as powerful community sites continue to dominate the cyber-world, people with an active presence on Squidoo and similar networks will be on the cusp of the next Big Thing!
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