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Elizabeth Harrin   (August 31, 2006)




Thanks to the blog phenomenon, hundreds (and soon thousands) of your peers are sharing their ups and downs in the project world. That doesn’t mean they’re all insightful or even remotely interesting, but by hacking through the blog jungle, you might find one or two gems that can help advance your career.

Want to get on? Then log on. Blogs can help improve your skills and land you a new job.
 
Personally, I’ve always found it difficult to judge if I have been successful in my Internet searches. I get what I want eventually, but life is too short to sift through the 178 million hits Google offers me when I type in “project management jobs.” So the prospect of using blogs to help my job search just filled me with a sense of foreboding information overload.
 
However, it didn’t take long to grasp that blogs are the new job-enhancing tool, whether you are looking to move on, move up or just get better at doing what you do.
 
There are blogs about every topic imaginable, so if you want to improve a particular facet of your project management, there will be a blog targeted to match.



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