{"id":393,"date":"2005-09-14T10:48:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:45","slug":"blogs_can_help_boost_a_career_or_sink_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/09\/14\/blogs_can_help_boost_a_career_or_sink_it\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs can help boost a career or sink it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/sv\/_www12634035;_ylt=Avqxa.UzXrkArNVM63zHgzkjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\">Yahoo! News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Terrence Ryan knew Scott McNulty in passing at the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Wharton School, where they both work.<\/p>\n<p>But it was McNulty&#8217;s blog, or Web log, that made Ryan take a harder look. It showed Ryan that McNulty, a systems administrator, really knew computers. More important, it revealed his &#8220;geeky love of technology,&#8221; a personal quality that &#8220;tends to work really well in our department,&#8221; Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the blog, Ryan offered McNulty, 28, of Philadelphia, a promotion to systems programmer on a team responsible for information-technology services. McNulty took it.<\/p>\n<p>He still writes his blog &#8212; a blend of his musings on the personal and technical at blankbaby.typepad.com &#8212; knowing that several of his co-workers and his bosses read it. &#8220;It&#8217;s had a very positive impact on my career,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo! News: Terrence Ryan knew Scott McNulty in passing at the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Wharton School, where they both work. But it was McNulty&#8217;s blog, or Web log, that made Ryan take a harder look. It showed Ryan that McNulty, a systems administrator, really knew computers. More important, it revealed his &#8220;geeky love of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}