Comments on: Jobs in Social Media and Web 2.0 on the Rise!

By: socialmediablog

socialmediablog — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:31:49 +0000

Please see the latest Post Script from 2nd January 2007 under my December 30th Post “Jobs in Social Media and Web 2.0 on the Rise!” for information from Indeed.com's marketing manager. Thanks!

By: socialmediablog

socialmediablog — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:31:21 +0000

Thanks for your comments – excellent points! To clarify – I didn't mean to imply that the increase is reflective of a statistically significant shift or a “mandate to business”- just an interesting indicator of change (even if a small one). One additional point of clarification- the job base on used by Indeed extends beyond the 35M jobs collected in 2005 and includes jobs currently posted in 2006 (though, I'd be curious to know when jobs officially reach their “End of Life” stage on Indeed). You're right on the multiple postings front- jobs may be posted on multiple sites which could skew the data, though in my experience using the search facility, Indeed does a good job of deleting duplicate entries from search results (I'm not sure if that's just my luck or if they do, in fact, delete multiples). Please keep your comments coming!

By: Marketing Canapes

Marketing Canapes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:30:26 +0000

Nice tool, Lisa, but the tale of the graphs lies in the fact that when something is quite small and grows, it does not take much to create a dramatic increase. When you look at the percentage of figures along side the graphs, they put this into perspective and far too many people get blinded by the graph's line to see what the number actually is.

Podcasting is in terms of .002% (two thousanths of one percent) or .00002 of jobs posted and that is a small number. The blog line is on the magnitude of twenty times the podcasting numbers.

Indeed's site does not indicate how many of the jobs are duplicates of those found on multiple sites, so the 35 million figure can be legitimately questioned as well as the actual number of podcasting/blogging/social media jobs reported. There are probably far few jobs than the number given - especially for web 2.0 jobs which may be listed on multiple sites.

Another consideration is that the job base was collected in 2005 and we are at the end of the 2006 job market and that means some of the data may be getting stale.

Understand that I fully endorse social media, blogs (I do write one), etc. and I hope to see these numbers grow significantly over the next year. But, for now, I find the growth interesting, but not yet a mandate to business.

By: Glorious Light

Glorious Light — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:30:04 +0000

Interesting, especially the Podcast chart.

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:23:10 +0000

[this is good]
Wow – that's a really powerful illustration of the growth of social media.