I first joined social media to find a job with very specific criteria in mind, and am still sticking to them. Then I discover (oh well, was distracted by 
) so many beauties of it — get to know different people, make new and good friends, dig into the information gold mine and, last but not least, learn things interest you anywhere if you can’t make it physically. Don’t get me wrong, face to face relationship is far more important than what you build online, but sometime life is too busy to fit everything and social media is here for you.
Last Thursday I attended “Social Media Starter Kit: Enterprise Edition” webinar, a chat with Amber Naslund and Mark Sylvester, hosted by introNetworks. Lots of good discussions, you can find the slides here. An interesting tweet from @haveAwonderful about company hiring social media people based on qualification and experience, my thoughts are since social media hype is relatively new, companies are still trying to figure out besides PR, Marketing and Customer Services, what other untapped talents out there can they bring in to help the business in various function hubs, and this will take a while to get into company HR and recrutires’ head before reach the peak of cycle.
I did not make it to PodCamp Toronto 2010 over the weekend but I was happy to (1) learn from the live streams and (2) not have to make the tough decisions of which session to go to as they were all excellent. The Ah-ha moment for me was “Work Life Blending”, companies have been saying work life balance for years and quite often promote what solutions they provide to the employees to pursuit this balance. 
Come to think of it, you are committed if you are passionate about what you do, then work is not work anymore; it doesn’t confine to business hours, or physical office space, or even job descriptions, because you will do everything and anything to make it work. With that, I am confident social media is a land of opportunities for Information Professional like me.
