Part 3 of Networking During a Pandemic: Reaching Out to Your Social Media Network During the Pandemic

CPL David Muir — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:33:37 -0400

Quick Review:
Please read my previous articles as a prerequisite for this article. Check them out here: Part 1: http://rly.pt/37WISFl Part 2: https://rly.pt/2QfuqCL

Effective Outreach
Your preparation and research are now going to be put into action by reaching out to people with a purpose. You will interact through social media to review and comment on people’s posts, send direct messages, join and post to groups and establish phone conversations. This is how you start building a network. The end goal is to create conversations—currency in the job search. You want to have as many of them as possible and with the right kind of people.

Social Media – Like, Comment and Share
Your research has led you to corporate pages and profiles on LinkedIn and Twitter. Follow these organizations and its connected people and their postings will show up in your daily feed. Read them, then Like, Comment and Share their content, if relevant to you. Interacting with the organization or person’s content can get you noticed and help get a conversation started.

Using Groups in LinkedIn
Participate in targeted groups you joined. Read the posts and take notice of the participants. Engage in conversation threads, if relevant to you to generate more conversations with people. These people can then become possible connections in your network.

You should also post in your groups to start a thread and ask for advice. As sample post might read:

Subject Line: Service-Disabled Veteran Seeking Help with Referrals to Support Network-Building Efforts

Body: Hello All! I am proactively seeking the next step in my career as a (INSERT JOB TITLE) and reaching out to my network. Any recommendations on a good company to research, organization to join or blogs to read? Thanks for your help!

The hope is that your group will interact with you by providing conversation points, recommendations and possibly an invite to connect you to someone in the field.

Using Direct Message in LinkedIn
A direct message to a person on LinkedIn is just that, a message directly to their LinkedIn inbox. Just like sending an email, you have a subject line and a body to write. However, keep in mind that the people you are reaching out will NOT be expecting your message, so your outreach needs to be engaging, a quick read and have a call to action to get a response.

Also, be sure to personalize the subject line to get the best chances of having your message read. Examples might be:
Karen, I’m a veteran seeking your advice on INDUSTRY NAME
Bob, I’m a veteran job seeker looking for your thoughts on COMPANY NAME

In the body, be direct about why you are contacting them and make sure to check your grammar and spelling. The message might read something like this:

Hi Michelle,

I came across your profile while researching people and opportunities in the INSERT INDUSTRY and I found your background inspiring. I’m a veteran looking for a INSERT JOB TITLE position and hope for an opportunity to connect with you about your company and the industry.

Would you mind helping me by answering a few simple questions?

Looking forward to your response.

YOUR NAME

Keep the message short. In general, people like helping others and answering a few questions is not a big ask. But keep in mind not everyone will respond. However, targeted messages do get conversations started.

In our next article, we’ll discuss using Twitter to engage others in conversation.

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Response by SFC Melvin Brandenburg made Apr 22 at 2021 2:11 PM

SFC Melvin Brandenburg — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:11:52 -0400

I have found this to work for me

Response by CW3 Dick McManus made May 5 at 2021 2:33 AM

CW3 Dick McManus — Wed, 05 May 2021 02:33:48 -0400

Resolution to prosecute Donald Trump and other public officials for being accessories to a pandemic

WHEREAS Trump was briefed at least by January 30, 2020 that Covid-19 was very contagious and deadly similar to smallpox and the plague,

WHEREAS Trump told Americans 22 times the Corona virus would go away,

WHEREAS in September 2020 Trump pressured the CDC to downplay the threat of Covid-19 and the CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield did not resign,

WHEREAS in August 2020 Trump appointed a radiologist Dr. Scott W. Atlas to serve as an advisor on the White House Covid virus Task Force instead of an infectious disease MD and Atlas spread misinformation about COVID-19, including theories that face masks and social distancing were not effective in slowing the spread of the corona virus and he recommended faster reopening of schools and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic,

Whereas Dr. Deborah Birx said she asked herself, “Is there something that I think I can do that would be helpful in responding to this pandemic, but she did not resign and she said Trump was “attentive to the scientific literature,” praising his ability to “analyze and integrate data.”

Whereas Trump put Jared Kushner, in charge of the nation’s response to the pandemic and Kushner said, “The federal government is not going to lead this response…. It’s up to the states to figure out what they want to do.”

Whereas Paul Alexander and his boss, Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at Health and Human Services, were working to change the language officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to warn of the dangers of the coronavirus,

WHEREAS Trump in February 2020 accused Democrats of “politicizing” the corona virus during a campaign rally claiming that the outbreak is “their new hoax,” accusing the press of being in “hysteria mode”, and downplaying the severity by comparing the number of fatalities during an average flu season,

WHEREAS Trump received a vaccination against Covid and he kept it a secret,

WHEREAS the former US Commander and Chief, Trump had the duty to protect US persons from all enemies (aka deadly threats), and one such enemy was Covid-19, a deadly and extremely contagious disease which even if the victim does not die, it can allegedly result at times in serious negative outcomes to a person’s long term health,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we demand Trump and other US public officials be prosecuted by the US Court of jurisdiction and/or the international Criminal Court for gross negligence and reckless disregard for human life and health due to making false and unscientific statements about Covid-19.

Lying to the public
The president’s duty to faithfully execute his office plays a critical role in the constitutional scheme. Going beyond requiring the president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” Const., Art. II, Sec. 3, Cl. 5, the Clause 8 constitutional duty to “faithfully execute” the presidential office limits the president’s discretion in how to perform his official functions.

“Faithfully” was contemporaneously defined, in part, as: “Honestly, without fraud, trick, or ambiguity.” The oath or command of faithful execution to an office holder came to convey an affirmative duty to act … honestly … in the best interest of the public.” (Emphasis added.)

Accordingly, to faithfully execute the office of the President includes a duty to act honestly. Since communicating to the public is one of the president’s official functions, the honesty duty likewise applies to virtually all such communications. Bush Jr. and Trump “repeatedly made false statements.

Trump had to have known that a pandemic would cause an economic recession or new Great Depression and therein it would reduce his odds of being reelected. He was an accessory to a pandemic (second degree murder or voluntary manslaughter). This crime was a new incident such that our law makers never thought they needed to make a law to punish people who spread unscientific lies or refuting the advice of peer reviewed medical science.

President Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq was part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.
http://www.truth-out.org/rumsfeld-era-propaganda-program-whitewashed-

Lying the US into Iraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4RZO8y-R9k&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3qwOWddjedvIKm3akPygWtF3Q4IjSf-Uy4DWjgKj5QV74yUai_3nzKUYc

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