Eating at the Media Bistro

MediaBistro.com is a great site to find a job in the media business. It also advertises However it also links to brief blog posts that share about media influences. I personally am a member of the site – looking for a job!

One of the articles on the site explains how Amanda Hesser, former food editor of New York Times Magazine used a social media site – Food52 – to create a cookbook to be released in 2011. This idea is called crowdsourcing. Her co-editor is Merrill Stubbs, a freelance writer. The duo also used social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to collect the best homemade recipes.

Another article shares how one can use the social media site LinkedIn.com to create connections and hopefully job opportunities. The article opens by asking when was the last time you updated your LinkedIn page. “Most job seekers have been told the benefits of LinkedIn. More than just Twitter on Ritalin or Facebook without Farmville, the social network is an invaluable tool for researching companies, networking, and discovering new opportunities.” It is so key to finding a job; despite that, buyer beware. One of the commenters shared examples of how he or she was scammed in the past short period of time.