{"id":480,"date":"2012-07-22T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T12:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycjones.ca\/?p=480"},"modified":"2021-07-19T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:17:50","slug":"so-much-for-the-power-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"So Much for the “Power” of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There was a job back in Kelowna with a company owned by the son of a colleague I had done business with many years ago. I thought it might be interesting and maybe help me get the job if I asked all my friends and colleagues to send a simple email to him with the subject line “Hire Gary Jones”.<\/p>\n

At the very least I thought getting maybe thirty or forty emails would help to get me noticed. Okay, so some of my 136 friends on Facebook don’t know me well enough to send what looks like a recommendation, but a lot of them do. Not only that but a lot of them are friends I have helped out when they needed it; everything from help with moving to renovating to taking them out on my boat. A simple one-line email wasn’t too much to ask, I thought.<\/p>\n

No such luck. It backfired on me big time when all he got was TWO emails. That’s right – TWO! If he read into it that I had asked all my many friends and colleagues in the Okanagan to send him a simple email, and the response was a big fat TWO, then it’s not surprising that I never heard from him again.<\/p>\n

Given my current desperation to get the hell out of London and back to my beloved Okanagan, this experience sure brought me down, which is the last thing I needed right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a job back in Kelowna with a company owned by the son of a colleague I had done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[95,114,132],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","category-rants_and_raves","tag-musings","tag-opinions","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/power-of-social-media_02.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18144,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/18144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}