Job hunting and social media

So 89%of companies will be using social media as a part of their recruitment processes by the end of this year... Did you know that? No, me neither. But it's all here in a great article and info graphic I came across this morning. Have a look for yourself. - Posted using BlogPress from my i...

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Quality not Quantity-How to grow your Twitter following

In business, Twitter is pretty ubiquitous nowadays. There aren't many new start-ups who don’t use social media to spread the word, and existing businesses and organisations are starting to cotton on to the power of the social web. And it is just that – power. The power to get your message out to a wide audience very quickly in a way in which traditional forms of media just can’t match. Twitter is...

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It's a scoop

With content curation being high on the social media agenda at the moment, a new platform for helping with this task has just been introduced. It's called Scoop.It and is a great big advance on other social bookmarking sites such as Delicious or Digg in my opinion, as it presents the saved or curated content as a picture/feature window rather than as a set of URL's. There is a tagging facility to...

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It was Facebook wot done it, m'lud...

This morning's trawl of the social media web came up with this Interesting article on the increasing use of social media sites as evidence in courts. Despite many folk protesting that the scribblings of members us private and therefore protected, increasingly such objections are being overruled by judges. I guess that the moral of this story is be very careful what you post. Google+ appears...

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This is essential for your business

I came across a great infographic on the TechCrunch blog recently. It came with an article detailing why business leaders feel social media is now an essential part of their business strategy. The blog post is here but I've produced the infographic below.....

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If you don't "get" Twitter

Read on. Or, rather, have a read of This blog post from Steve Wheeler. The rest of the blog is great too, with some great tips and discussion on social media and networking. And if you still don't 'get' Twitter after reading Steve's post, why not just take a deep breath and jump in. I promise you that it will all come together very quickly...

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