Real Estate Blog - Starting your day with Alltop

Alltop is a site that collects All the Top ics from All the Top blogs* and puts them in easy categories. (now you can see where the name comes from). Haven’t heard of Alltop? Maybe you have heard of one of it’s founders, Guy Kawasaki . Find a category you like and Alltop has already gathered hundreds of the best posts from the best blogs on the web and put them on one single page for you. For each blog Alltop will deliver the most recent 5 post titles. Hover over the title and you’ll be able to read the first paragraph. A simple click on the title will deliver you to the full article.

What use is this to me?

Case in point. I’ve been looking for employment daily. I have a resume, I have a cover letter, I even have a video and a blog post. (hire Mike ). With the job market as it is, it hasn’t been easy to find a job. Looking for pointers I headed to my favorite search engine and started looking for tips. A couple hours later I walked away frustrated. I found very little. This morning had an idea. I headed over to Alltop, found the section called Careers . The page loaded almost instantly. I now was looking at 1,094 of the freshest posts from the best career blogs on the web.

I found some great gems in minutes (not hours) most all of which didn’t show up in my search engine experience.

30+ Sites to Find Work in 09
You Must Launch an Aggressive Job Search Campaign
Learn to Recognize Employment Scams (job boards are filled with them)
21 Things

Image by mike912mueller via Flickr

It’s not just posts that show up. I even found a podcast of a radio show where I downloaded the .mp3 file and can listen to it later. (Discover Great Jobs Stemming from the Economic Stimulus Package )

Working Better

I’m a big proponent of using technology to work better, faster, more efficiently. I should have know better and to just head straight to Alltop. I know Alltop isn’t going to get me a job but the information I find there might.

Bonus: If you want to assemble just the latest posts of the blogs you like you can create a custom page! As you come across new ones you can add them with a single click. You can even share your personal collection with others. Here’s mine: http://my.alltop.com/mikemueller

* Disclaimer: I am very proud for my blog to be included in Alltop. You can find it in one of the busiest sections, Social Media . (all the way at the bottom)