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Each week, I hear from a lot of extremely talented, smart and qualified people who are looking for jobs. I also see tweets from great companies and agencies in DFW that are looking for talent. So, in the interest of bringing those two groups together, I give you the DFW Ad Jobs Update - Volume 1! (Yes, the name needs work - suggestions welcome!)

If you are a company or agency in DFW with job openings, please contact me and I'll include the job description in an upcoming post!

So here's my first confession: I'm a gamer girl.

We all get them on a regular basis - the poorly written, oddly vague press release. From small companies to global conglomerates, every organization has at least one press release that fits a mold. And so, I've created for your wordsmithing enjoyment - Public Relations Mad Libs!

(Can't see the image? Check out the original on Flickr!)

There's a disconcerting trend among companies now to hire a social media or community manager via a contest. People can seek nominations from friends or put their own name forward in an attempt to prove that they're the most popular choice for the position.

When reading Tony Hsieh's "Delivering Happiness," (affiliate) it's all but impossible to keep thinking the same thing over and over: "This guy is Zappos. And Zappos is awesome." End of story? Not so much.

In my 2 years on Twitter, I've found it to be an incredible networking tool, resource and place to vent. And in the past months, it's become even better - brands are proactively reaching out to answer questions I have. How? A variety of ways, but many are using a tool called Twitter Search.

I work just north of Addison Circle, and it's nice sometimes to go out and walk around and not look at a computer for a few minutes. However, I've found that Addison Circle is a complete failure of usability, especially for first time users. Here's how:

Today Twitter announced plans to roll out advertising in the form of Promoted Tweets. From Twitter's blog:

This post was supposed to be a lot of things. It was supposed to be the last post in my mobile series - how business & organizations can use geolocation apps. Then, it was supposed to be a rant about Foursquare's new GPS integration and how much I hate it.