Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences
7th November 2009, 03:29 pm
By:Charlie Osmond @cosmond
http://blog.freshnetworks.com/2009/11/google-wave-vs-twitter-at-conferences/
Too many images to scrape here but go to the url - what a powerful way to attend a conference and then share with the team back home! - Dorothy
Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Rea…
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Social Media: What's Next?
By Adam Ostrow
Adam Ostrow is a new-media entrepreneur, consultant and commentator. As editor-in-chief at Mashable, Adam is responsible for the editorial management and direction of one of the most widely read blogs in the world, covering the latest technologies, trends and individuals that are driving the current evolution of the Web. Adam has been frequently quoted by mainstream media, including mentions in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, F…
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Added by Dorothy Beach on November 6, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Recruiters and Sourcers - you can now source and follow "Groups" on Twitter!
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 10:54 AM PST
By: Shally Steckerl - from his newsletter posted through arbita.net
By now you may already know that Twitter released its "lists" feature from beta and into their main site. This is a solution to the problem created when you follow lots of people on Twitter and your Twitter home page becomes flooded with irellevant tweets.
But what does this specifically meant to you as a sourcer…
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As Facebook Ages, Gen Y Turns to Twitter
Written by Sarah Perez / November 5, 2009 7:18 AM
Source:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/as_facebook_ages_gen_y_turns_to_twitter.php
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Facebook is getting old. No, people aren't getting tired of it, it's actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook was 26. Today, it's 33, a good seven year…
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Organization Structure Intelligence Using The Official Board
Published by Ian Smithon November 2, 2009in Competitive & Internet Intelligence
Source:
http://intelegia.com/mediacenter/tools_for_thought/2009/11/02/organization-structure-intelligence-using-the-official-board/
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The Official Board is an online source that provides information o…
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Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education Vol 56 No.11, Nov 6 2009
College Recruiters: What they are reading on campus
Since this could be a point of conversation when you engage with students and recent grads, I added this reading list by rank:
1.) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2.) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3.) Pride & Predjudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
4.) Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
5.) True Compass: A Memoir by…
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What is all this “Un” stuff?
October 25, 2009 · 4 Comments
The Unblog – Norton Folgate
Source:
http://recruitingunblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/what-is-all-this-un-stuff/
By Bill Boorman, UK
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Un unconference is an unconventional event that has built momentum from the technology sector in the states. From barcamps to gatherings in parks, the unconference is seen as the best way to share and…
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Twitter Lists - now rolled out
By: Nick Kallen
Source:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/29/twitter-starts-rolling-out-lists-to-everybody-have-you-gotten-yours/
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As of yesterday, Twitter employee Nik Kallen reported that “25% of all users have Lists.” And then he Tweeted: “We’re releasing lists to even more people. Don’t get your panties in a bunch, Twitter.”…
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Your Company May Own Your Tweets, Pokes, and YouTube Videos
Categories: Legal, Social Media
Posted on October 28th, 2009
Source:
http://ow.ly/xGzA
By: Jeremiah Owyang
Partner, Customer Strategy
Altimeter Group
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(Commentary is especially interesting - much of the law will change I think - Dorothy)
Your Boss May Own Your Facebook Wall Posts
Employees sign employment contracts that may indicate that all intellectual property created during em…
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TARGET-SEARCH PEOPLE PROFILES USING TWEEPZin Tip of the Day
By: Glen Gutmacher from arbita.net
Source:
http://aces.arbita.net/node/1068
When it comes to finding relevant talent on Twitter, a great new no-cost profile search tool has emerged from
Exalead, one of our favorite advanced search engines: Tweepz.com just searches the biographical data on over 8 million profiles. You can do keyword stemming (e.g., analy* finds analyze, analysi…
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Social Search from Google and Bing: My 8 Big Concerns
BY: Jared Newman
Oct 22, 2009 9:53 am
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/174138/social_search_from_google_and_bing_my_8_big_concerns.html
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How will all this stuff work?
You can try the beta of Bing's Twitter search now. It's similar to searching on Twitter itself, but you can see the top links being shared, which is u…
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Track Keywords & Brand Names in Comments: BackType Alerts
Source:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/backtype-alerts/14183/
By: Ann Smarty 10/26/09
Ecxcerpted:
Backtype, the web comment tracking service (where you’d better register to claim your comments and report fake comments) has a really nice feature that allows to monitor any keyword in a comment: Comment Alerts.
Basically, it sends you an email alert li…
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Added by Dorothy Beach on October 26, 2009 at 8:51pm —
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Real-time Search is Just a Foundation - There Will Be Something Bigger
Published in October 25th, 2009 Posted by Rob Diana in Internet
Source:
http://regulargeek.com/2009/10/25/real-time-search-is-just-a-foundation-there-will-be-something-bigger/
In my morning reading, I found an article at the NY Times that got me thinking, How High Will Real Time Search Fly? It is an interest…
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A Success Story - Using Social Media to Recruit. And There Are More....
Editor's Note- Jessica Lee is a Senior Employment Manager for APCO Worldwide, a global PR firm based in D.C. Like most upscale HR pros, she spends half of her time on recruiting, the other half on ER, Training and OD. When she's not hammering a candidate to determine Motivational Fit, she's thinking about the future of HR, wondering how she can avoid using the job boards (but of course not rely on just social media) t…
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Added by Dorothy Beach on October 26, 2009 at 8:42pm —
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Google Social Search Goes Live
October 26th, 2009 | by Ben Parr
Source:
http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/social-search-launch/
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Social search, demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit by Google’s VP of Search Marissa Mayer, combines results from your friend’s blogs, Flickr(), Twitter(), FriendFeed(), and a wide variety of other social media sites (so long as your friends have connected their social accounts to their Google()…
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Tweepi – Twitter Follow Management With Stats
by Guest Poster on October 27, 2009
Welcome to TwiTip
TwiTip is edited by Darren Rowse (@ProBlogger) from ProBlogger Blog Tips and is all about Twitter.
Source:
http://www.twitip.com/tweepi-twitter-follow-management-with-stats/
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Tweepi presents a geekier, faster way to manage your Twitter experience. It currently has four tools and hopefully we will mo…
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I read in the Wall Street Journal today about how companies can use time to their competitive advantage. That is, if you have a product or service that saves time on low valued tasks or allows for better enjoyment during a performance of a mundane task, then it can be an advantage over those products or services that do not. It got me thinking about what we do for our candidates who hate the application process and clients or hiring managers who hate trying to figure our your short slate of cand…
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Added by Dorothy Beach on October 26, 2009 at 8:45am —
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Day 3: The How Of Blogging: SOTB 2009
Source:
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-3-the-how-of-blogging1/
Author: sussman / Published: October 21, 2009 at 6:01 am
Go to the url for lots of great charts and compare yourself to the others - Dorothy
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Levels of active bloggers remain similar to 2008. As with most mediums, the level of commitment varies widely.
15% of bloggers spend 10 or m…
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Added by Dorothy Beach on October 24, 2009 at 5:24pm —
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What Do Researchers Do – Part IV
October 23, 2009, 7:00 am
By: Amy Beth Hale
Source:
http://researchgoddess.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/what-do-researchers-do-part-iv/
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Myth #1: “The researcher will find you candidates.”
You may think, ‘How is this incorrect? That’s what researchers do isn’t it? Source candidates?’ Not exactly….as I’ve mentioned in prior postings, a researcher’s d…
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Added by Dorothy Beach on October 23, 2009 at 4:04pm —
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Alternatives to Google Wave
Oct 21Written by:Robert Bravery
Source:
http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/Blog/EntryId/422/Alternatives-to-Google-Wave.aspx
Pointed out to me through Jeremy Roberts on a chat today -Dorothy
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But there are alternatives to Google Wave. Some are commercial and have been used for a while, while others are free. Some require some form of client softw…
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