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August 2009 Blog Posts (8)

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 / Twitter / new friends on Facebook.

It seems that Facebook is trying to re-invent itself and provide more professional, business tools for those in career… 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… 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… 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… 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 relationships for job networking?

Most users of LinkedIn are aware of the capability to connect with others to build a network, but perhaps not as many use a very… 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… 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

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… Continue

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