What goes up must also plateau awhile?

Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/24/twitter-wordpress-blogging-vs-microblogging/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

Sensationalism and a doomsday premise always sells in a pithy headline. I'm more in sync. with this Techcrunch blogger on his sign-off words:

"So is blogging back, while microblogging is on the skids? A one-month spike in the popularity of blogs doesn’t tell you much of anything, but in any case it’s the wrong question. Blogging never really went away, and was in fact helped by Twitter, which is becoming the preferred feed reader for many people (thanks to services like Twitterfeed).

And don’t count out microblogging just yet. Twitter is finally rolling out improvements to its site such as Lists and the new Retweet button. Once geo-location features kick in, Twitter’s growth could come back with a vengeance."

2010 will be extremely interesting.

The stratospheric growth couldn't last forever

It had to happen, wild swings and reversals and an end to the stratospheric growth of the last few months.

Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up -

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007388

There's always a honeymoon phase online, MySpace and then Bebo, now Facebook and Twitter.. what is hot and what is not this month or year. Twitter is still in its infancy as both a platform and an influencer of what will follow.

Once the dust settles and the data is re-tallied from desktop apps, mobile apps and all the other stats for Twitter, we might get a realistic snapshot of how both individuals and businesses are using micro-blogging, status updates, content aggregators, lists, groups and much more besides.

None of these systems work in isolation anymore, which make both the pitfalls and the overall promise even more transparent.

Job boards and employment sites - where will you find your next job?

Which sites or online resources do you use regularly or monitor for employment opportunities – whether hiring or job-hunting? LinkedIn, Monster, Facebook, job boards, portals …others?

EMarketingsilo.com released research recently that nearly 54% of respondents stated that geographic and industry-specific job sites are most effective when job-hunting.
24% indicated they posted on 1-2 job boards and 29 posted resumes on 3-4 boards. Job-seekers are doing their homework it seems and drilling down to specifics in their searches.Out of 3,900 HR professionals and Recruiters, 84% said niche sites provide access to the best talent, while just 11% said they preferred general-purpose recruitment sites.

Sites I personally work with regularly to track what’s happening in our job markets include LinkedIn and its active media and recruitment groups, Facebook, our own mediajobs.net, mashable.com and The Ladders.

Although not of course an employment site, Twitter is a growing two-way corridor of introductions to niche professional communities and people).

Mashable.com weigh in with a great January piece too on this blog topic on these and other sites for anyone out there job-hunting in this economic climate, "7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media" - http://mashable.com/2009/01/05/job-search-secrets/ .

Either as a recruiter/employer or job seeker, what’s your anecdotal feedback on your own experience with the big sites and the niche job boards and online communities?

Where have you had hiring successes, or where did you either find your last job? Or would include in an online scan to find your next position?