Like many of the people I’ve featured lately, Joan Ginsberg is looking for a job.  She’s awesome. She’s an attorney, an HR Pro, a Broadway musical fan, and a former cop. You should hire her. But that’s not what I want to talk about.

Joan gets the relational aspects of social media.  She is generous with her time, sincere about the new friendships she’s making online, humble, and hilarious.  Joan manages to strike the right balance between personal branding and self-promotion. She makes no secret that she’s looking for a job, but she never comes across as anything other than interested, patient, and happy to contribute to whatever you have going on. Joan understands that fun and acknowledgement of others go a long, long way in raising your community profile. For instance, Joan used her own blog to plug my Profile Project.  She didn’t  have to do that, and she could have asked to be featured here instead. But she didn’t.

I get to meet Joan in May at the HREvolution 2010 event which she is helping organize. I can’t wait to give her a big hug, though I suspect I’ll be at the end of a long line. Maybe we’ll all break into a Broadway song for her.