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Jason Alba, author of I'm on LinkedIn, Now What??? and I'm on Facebook, Now What???

Job Search Boot Camp welcomes Jason Alba, author of I'm on LinkedIn, Now What??? and I'm on Facebook, Now What???, to discuss how to take the next step in your career search. http://budurl.com/alba1107 Continue

Added by Amy Domestico on November 7, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

Is ROI Input, Process Or Output?

It seems that online and off line conversations are consumed with measuring the ROI from social media. Much of the dialog is a waste of time and focused o… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on November 5, 2009 at 6:24am — No Comments

Best practices tip: post high value messages to build your brand

Beyond email - message overload Messages come to us in many more ways now. Traditionally, people have used email for years to communicate, and share information. Chat rooms have been around for a number of years. Instant messaging came around and a few years ago and quickly gained in popularity wi… Continue

Added by Daulton West, Jr. on October 13, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Nonprofits embracing social media for fundraising

Nonprofits understand the importance of building quality, lasting relationships for maintaining a base of supporters to embrace their many causes and fundraising campaigns. Recent articles suggest that nonprofits have been quick to realize the upside potential for social media sites that can strengthen the connection with existing supporters and also attract new followers. By utilizing social media to promote brand awareness, nonprofits are able to build quality relationships by keeping follower… Continue

Added by Daulton West, Jr. on October 8, 2009 at 10:48pm — No Comments

Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Mahalo

Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Mahalo, and founder of Weblogs Inc., which he sold to AOL in 2005 for $25 million, discusses the need for human-powered search in a Google-dominated world, as well as why he might turn his back on Apple products. http://budurl.com/internetevolution09 Continue

Added by Amy Domestico on October 8, 2009 at 11:15am — No Comments

My Dream Social Media Job

Last week Jim encouraged me to post my dream social media job. Here it is: Responsibilities: - Strategic planning, with senior management involved, of marketing & social media plan. This includes external communities, the company blog, and/or a company sponsored community site where customers can gather to converse. This also includes internal community that facilitates better usage of employee resources, corporate knowledge, and collaboration. - Broadcast media & advertising should d… Continue

Added by chuff80 on September 23, 2009 at 4:47pm — No Comments

Will Tweet for Work

How far will people go to find a job in this economy? According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, people have resorted to using social networking tools to find work. This isn't so new to some because LinkedIn has long been a professional site that attracted hundreds of executive recruiters looking for viable candidates. As a result, lot of people on LinkedIn updated their p… Continue

Added by Cathy Y. Taylor on September 14, 2009 at 11:17pm — No Comments

A Social Media Card?

Social media has pulled advertisers and marketers into the eco-system of conversations. However, the audience has rejected their presence.… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on September 8, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

HR Guide to Using Yammer to Stay in Touch with Employees and Colleagues

One challenge I face in my job as a regional HR director supporting multiple offices/regions is staying “in touch” with what employees are working on. Recently, I signed up for Yammer and I am already finding it beneficial in keeping me connected. What is Yammer? Yammer is a free social networking service based on employees' answers to the question: "What are you working on?" It is similar to Twitter in that you can @ message specific followers, and you can use hashtags. It differs from Twitter… Continue

Added by Trish on September 7, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

More Banned Members and Spammers

I should probably be more upfront about this on the sidebar, but if you're posting links to drugs, or sex, or making money through google I'm just deleting and banning you without a second thought. Let me know if someone is doing this in their profile - this is for real people, not the scum of the internet. And yes, if that's you, you're the scum of the internet. I do sometimes make mistakes, or run into someone who writes me, and I reinstate them, but I just don't have time to chase them down.… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on September 6, 2009 at 7:02pm — No Comments

Again, What Is Social Media?

It seems that everyone is trying to define social media and how to measure it's ROI. I get asked "what is social media?" from every client I engage w… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on September 4, 2009 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Enhance the Online Experience Offline and Measure the Results

I read an article in the Washington Post recently that made me think about something a colleague said several years ago. We were discussing the marketing strategy for an association of sales professionals and how best to use email as a way to communicate with the membership. After a few minutes of discussion, my colleague offered his opinion on e-marketing and reminded us that we st… Continue

Added by Cathy Y. Taylor on September 3, 2009 at 10:12pm — 1 Comment

Professional networking with Facebook

Have you seen the difference in the new way Facebook is being used for professional networking lately? For many users that formally only used LinkedIn or Twitter, and rarely used Facebook, these same users are now sending out more requests to “connect” with their LinkedIn / Twi… Continue

Added by Daulton West, Jr. on August 29, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Webinar "How 2 Twitter 4 Business Development" tomorrow and Fri at 10 am, check it out

Brain Gain Recruiting is repeating two webinars on "How 2 Twitter 4 Business Development": How 2 Twitter 4 Business Development (Beginner Level) Wed 26 Aug at 10 am PDT How 2 Twitter 4 Business Development (Intermediate Level) Fri 28 Aug 10 am PDT The content is different; take one or both. Feedback: "This was a terrific and informative W… Continue

Added by Irina Shamaeva on August 25, 2009 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Use of Social Media Requires Common Sense

There have been more than enough stories reported in the media of late involving people making careless mistakes on social networking sites that result in job loss, a missed opportunity or lost business. Examples: the Ketchum PR exec who tweeted how much he hated Memphis, TN during a visit to Federal Express HQ's. Fed Ex found out about it and fired the agency. Or how about the opportunity that slipped through the hands of a potential job candidate when he tweeted about taking a boring job at Ci… Continue

Added by Cathy Y. Taylor on August 24, 2009 at 11:15pm — 2 Comments

How Facebook Changes Will Alter Recruiting Strategies

I had the distinct pleasure of joining Michael Kelemen on the Recruiting Animal Show yesterday to talk about Facebook. If you've never listened to the show, prepare yourself. It's a call-in show of rowdy miscreants and the occasional unsuspecting guest, all run by the Recruiting Animal himself. Yesterday's show had some technical difficulties, but the callers jumped in and grilled me, argued with me, and asked a lot of great questions. There's a segment of the online recruiting world that just… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on August 20, 2009 at 5:10pm — 2 Comments

LinkedIn groups – are you building relationships for job networking?

Please view my article recently posted on the Examiner.com - LinkedIn groups – are you building relat… Continue

Added by Daulton West, Jr. on August 12, 2009 at 7:47pm — 2 Comments

Social Media Maximizes Traditional Marketing

There appear to be some die-hard traditionalists who do not believe social media has a place in marketing products and services. That was the finding from a recent survey conducted by Emailvision, a global email marketing service, which surveyed over 100 companies at a recent Online Marketing Show. The majority of companies said they prefer SEO and email as the leading tools to reach their target audience. The same companies cited little u… Continue

Added by Cathy Y. Taylor on August 10, 2009 at 11:29pm — 2 Comments

Looking for good community leaders

We are looking for people who would make good community leaders for our new social network, sidetick.com. We are trying to grow the overall community and would love to speak with people who can build and maintain niche communities within sidetick. If you have any ideas that you could share with me or are interested in helping us grow, please let me know. Jeff Goldstein sidetick.com Continue

Added by Jeff Goldstein on August 9, 2009 at 2:40pm — 3 Comments

Don't Believe the Hype -- Social Networking Has Value

Brightkite, a mobile social networking service and GfK Technology, a market research company, recently teamed up to conduct a survey on what people think about social networking. 87% of the 1000 people questioned say they prefer to deal with people face-to-face rather than through technology or smartphones. The results were reported in USA Today (Many adults say they're not sold on social networks). How the questions for this survey were structured dictates how the responses are being articulat… Continue

Added by Cathy Y. Taylor on August 3, 2009 at 11:00pm — 4 Comments