A Light At The End of The Social Media Tunnel
For the last few years I’ve constantly been stressed out about how many different Social Media conduits and tools had been popping up. There is the obvious benefit that comes with having a cool new tool, but for someone from a hiring team or a job seeker this is like throwing gas on fire. Just [...]
Is News Corp The Anti-Social Media Company?
Check out this story from BBC:
‘Murdoch may block Google searches‘
“Mr Murdoch’s News Corp had previously said it would start charging online customers across all its websites.
He believes that search engines cannot legally use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results.”
This sounds remniscint to when Craigslist went out of their way to stop job [...]
Experimenting With Crowd Sourcing
Crowd sourcing has been a hot subject for a while now. While we have followed it for a long time we have never fully figured out how to integrate it into what we do. This isn’t for lack of a desire. We’re starting to think about creative ways to leverage crowd sourcing for different purposes [...]
Social Media IQ Quiz
There is no shortage of buzz about “Social Media” today. Virtually every media outlet, business and person in our communities has buzzed about Twitter, Facebook or some other hot new social media tool. People who are still grasping for what social media is all about are inserting .0’s in places that make the initiated social [...]
‘Trouble With Twitters’
For all of you Twittaholics out there, this is for you.
Professional Ratings, Is YOURS next?
In today’s Washington Post, Kim Hart writes about flack that a Seattle, Washington based web publisher is getting for providing a user friendly attorney directory. I suspect that the flack is due largely in part to the professional ratings that come with the system. While I don’t like the idea of a ratings system for [...]
Social Media Job Networking
Jobmatchbox is teaming up with the DC Social Media Club on March 18th to host “Spring Social” at Science Club, a social media job networking event. If you work in social media circles or would like to meet someone who does because you need their help as a consultant or full time then you may want [...]
A Sign of Social Media’s Entry Into The Mainstream?
While we all still do quite a bit of business over email and fax, this is the first that I’ve heard of legal notice being served via a social network. Apparently, an Australian court allows legal notices to be served via email, text messages and even social network messaging systems now. If you have been [...]
Personal Brand vs. Social Media Brand
I’ve been writing a lot about the difference between personal friendships and profile friendships lately. At the same time, much of what I have been writing has had to do with social media tools and how we wield them for communicating with others. I would like to go off in a different direction and talk [...]
The Next Wave of Social Networking Is On Its Way
Social networking websites have been a part of our lives in one way or another for long time. They have been places to meet new people and to deepen connections with people who we know. Providers of email, instant messaging and just about everything else have worked hard to mash their services up with the [...]
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