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Not long after I started my blog in 2004, I ran across someone who was calling himself a blogomist. Until that time I was still thinking of myself as a newspaper columnist who just happened to be writing on a blog.
I decided I would be a blogomist too and put it on my business card.
As people scan my card, they usually chuckle when they come to my self-proclaimed title. When you have a blog called FunnyBusiness you want people to laugh at what you write.
When I returned from my first Blogher Conference, I wrote about this decision in Blogomist vs. Citizen Journalist.
as I was updating the card, I hesitated on what I should call myself. Am I a journalist? a columnist? a citizen journalist? Or, a Blogomist?
I chose blogomist. Not just because,as my friend John thought, I was playing off of the word bigamist --I reminded him that I chose blogomist much as a biology professional would call themselves a biologist.
The blogomist trend has not taken off. My guess is, like my friend John pointed out, it does sound an awful lot like bigamist and maybe a bit pretentious as well.
Pretentious or not, I still prefer to think of myself as a blogomist.
There is a difference between job titles that end in "er" vs. those careers that end in "ist."The ists seem to signal advanced skills.
- teacher vs. learning specialist
- freelance writer vs. copy consultant
- manager vs. evangelist
- barber vs. hair stylist
- dietician vs. nutritionist
- doctor(technically not an "er" but it sounds like one,) vs. cardiologist
By choosing the little used blogomist term, I was trying to indicate that I was not a run of the mill person using blogging technology to share my world with the world.I was/I am trying to say I am a professional.
This is how I have parsed it out: bloggers include the entire spectrum of people who use blog technology to share their thoughts and blogomists are the people who are actually getting paid to blog or are considered an expert in the field of blogging.
Why not amateur blogger vs. professional blogger? Simply preference. It kind of reminds me of professional putt-putt players. It may be professional but few people take it as a serious profession.To me, blogging is a serious profession.
In writing about the five biggest mistakes that resume writers make, Heather Eager writes:
Include a Title for the Job You Want
Use a professional title for the position that you want. An improper job title will only serve to position you at a level far below the responsibility or salary level you are seeking to achieve. Including a job title can greatly increase the number of interview calls that you get for higher positions and improve your chances of clinching a higher salary – and when you start at a higher salary, your career growth is also accelerated.
However, at e-learning and central of the tutor,Tutortan says Beware of Title Inflation
Your fancy title might not mean very much.
The phenomenon responsible, as documented by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is so-called "title inflation."
This describes the process by which a company which once had a handful of easily identifiable top jobs -- CEO, chief financial officer -- can now have a string of staff with the word 'chief' at the head of their job description.
Apart from other by now relatively well known examples such as chief technology officer, chief marketing officer and, in some places, chief diversity officer, such titles -- many pioneered in the tech industries -- can include chief talent officer, chief cultural officer, chief reputation officer and even chief geek.
This in part reflects a long-term process of corporate restructuring away from simple hierarchies, says Betsey Stevenson, professor of business and public policy at Wharton.
"People want to be distinguished in some way from everyone else, but in a flat organization there is less hierarchy and therefore less opportunity to be distinguished," she says.
This can be a problem for high flyers seeking to reach the top, for example those with MBAs.
"One good thing about hierarchy is you can climb a corporate ladder. If there is no ladder, there is nothing to climb."
Greg Scott at Jiibe has also been thinking about job titles. Some of the titles people shared:
People Development Group- replaces the HR department,Directors of First Impressions instead of receptionist, Director of Sales and Smiles and Implant Manager
The best I have seen has got to be “Implant Manager” for a
