Ami G's Blogging Secrets

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He's been blogging for exactly one year and wants everyone to know it. But to get us to pay attention he has been forced to share the fantastic secrets he's learned during his apprenticeship.

You don't want to miss this awe-inspiring interview with Mikey's Monkey winner, Amitai Givertz.

Comments

[Jason Davis]

He is definately the hardest working man in the recruiting blog business

[Amitai Givertz]

Note: The post on RecruitingBloggers.com is not accepting comments. In fact, I can't even see the post now? What's that?

I regret that if you waste the time listening to this show you'll have a long wait (49 minutes) to get anything of possible value - IMHO. If I wouldn't listen to it I can't image why you would! Whatever.

Some gentle advice to my host:

1. Belittling your guests for being long-winded says more about your inability to manage the situation that it does about controlling the show to achieve its goal to a) entertain, b) inform, c) stimulate, and d) leave one wanting more. On all four counts this episode will go down in the annals of recruiting radio as a dismal failure unless, of course, it becomes widely referenced as an example for how not to do it. For the latter I am happy to have participated.

2. Asking someone a question to constantly interrupt them is -- in polite circles -- considered quite rude. If you have something to share with the community and think that this radio show could be a platform to evangelize something that you feel passionately about, think twice before accepting an invitation to do work with Michael. Unfortunately he has not developed a level of sophistication that elevates himself above being e) rude because he thinks people like to listen to that, and f) being passionate about much more than his own reputation among [by his own estimation] an irrelevant and pathetically small circle of hangers-on as a class nincompoop. While he underestimates the size and influence of recruiting bloggers -- which he should be adding to not subtracting from -- he overstates his ability to innovate for the space or enrich his audience.

3. I don’t do scripts. I told Michael, I don’t do scripts. My thinking his “script” – actually a transcription of our conversation from last week in preparation for today – was a good idea until I realized that if someone wanted to take an hour out to listen to me I could expect my host to have the professional courtesy and expertise to guide the conversation without such aids so that a), b) c) and d) could have been achieved and e) and f) could have been avoided. I was mistaken. I should have stuck to "the script" and taken Michael seriously when he said he is nether “transparent” or “authentic.”

Michael’s suggestion that we scrub what was recorded and record it again – for posterity’s sake I imagine – is not only a crass idea but it speaks volumes to his missing the point of live podcasting and the “social” aspects of social media let alone what I am about and who I am as a blogger -- the reason he invited me as his guest in the first place and why I agreed to come on.

I can only suggest if you tuned in because you had some interest in me, my work, my aspirations, my passion, my plans and my blogging you read my posts on www.blogversity.com, www.blogversity.com/recruitomatic, www.recruitingblogs.com and on www.ourcareerplace.com.

Of course, as you now know, I tend to be “long-winded.” To my own defense, I have yet to find another of way of communicating what it is I think when what I’m thinking is being formulated as I blog. That would have been one secret I would have liked share having been given half the chance. I realize now that doesn’t make for very good radio. I’m sorry.

Alternatively, if you tuned in to listen to Michael in his customary fashion promote his own shallow agenda at the expense of his so-called friends, enjoy the show!

[Amitai Givertz]

Reading the comment above -- dashed off quickly -- it might sound a little sour. It isn't meant that way. It is simply there to set the record straight. The Animal is who is and I am who I am. In private that's why we like each other perhaps.

[Recruiting Animal]

Ami, I'm a fan of yours but I can see from what you said above that you don't get The Recruiting Animal Show. It's intended to be a fast-paced, hardball forum.

It's like a roast. People come on ready to be "animalized". And it's been obvious from the start that those who don't get with the program get run over. Not out of malice. Out of fun.

[Amitai Givertz]

I'm glad you had fun. I didn't. In the final analysis did the audience have fun? If they did and it was at my expense then I'm a good enough sport to let it be.

However, I would like to know how the logic of your argument is any different from what it took to throw Christians to the lions in Rome or tossing midgets as far as you can throw them in the camps of Atilla the Hun? Or would you consider that good sport too?

Whatever. I won't listen to it or tune in again. I don't have the time to waste.

[Recruiting Animal]

Here is the feedback I've had for the show.

1. "Your show is like watching a car crash in slow motion."

2. "Really, an awesome show today Animal."

3. "I enjoyed the show."

4. "This was the worst show you've ever had."

5. "Did you lose listeners as it went along?"

6. "Brits do not operate at the speed of North Americans. Remember you are a product of a fast food instant gratification society."

[Maureen Sharib]

Oh Ami, please, please please tune in again - I thought you were great and you are still the #1 Thought Leader in my book!

I think you're a genius at marketing.

Maureen

[Colin Kingsbury]

This has to be the first time I've heard a British person complain about a mean Canadian.