Should everyone be blogging?

Scott Allen puts it this way:

"A blog may become as important, if not more important, than your resume. The resume may get you onto the long list, but the blog is definitely a tool to get onto the short list. If you're trying to position yourself as an expert, then you should be blogging about your topic and building relationships with other people in your industry who are thinking about and talking about the same topic. And when I say you want to position yourself as an expert, I'm not talking about being a professional info-guru. If your business value is centered around your expertise on a particular topic, then you should be writing about it."

More from an interview with Monster.com's Allan Hoffman here.

Looking for a job?

Why don't you create one? This goes out especially to Friendster/MySpace/Multiply junkies.

Opportunities await "net entrepreneurs" to get paid managing tech-savvy-but-busy executives' online presence, say in Second Life or LinkedIn.

Got Skype? Time to brush up on your testimonial-writing skills.

More of the soon to be "cottage industry" job here.

More on 21st century skills

The context here is Journalism education, but for learners who are expected to survive/thrive in a networked economy, the following seems apropos:

Reporting on the World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) , Guy Berger observes that:

"The main issue was how to teach in a fast and fluid media landscape, and how to prepare students for jobs -- like moderating user-generated online contributions -- that have only recently been invented, or which are even yet to emerge."

via Rebecca MacKinnon.