I have had the opportunity recently to speak with several groups, and introduce them to Social Media, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing. Specifically around the idea of leveraging these resources to aid in employment search. These groups are either, unemployed, underemployed, or see the bright eye in the sky and want to know what it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday night, I presented a LinkedIn workshop to a group of adults who fell into 1 of 3 categories. Those categorizes were unemployed, under employed, or those who were looking to further leverage their personal branding networks using LinkedIn. Below is the PowerPoint presentation that I used. I removed some of the slides to protect [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 16, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I’m all for sharing and promoting great content online. I’m also in favor of creating transparency, and allowing communities to help shape our customer service. If all businesses did was stand behind a flashy website, and didn’t address real issues, our experience would always be a gamble. Our relationships are built through the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
An interesting new study shows that social media still can’t get no respect in the workplace. According to a study by Robert Half Technologies, 54 percent of CIOs prohibit any social media use in the office. That’s a serious number. Robert Half Technology, a leading provider of information technology (IT) professionals on a project [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
“It’s not rocket surgery.” That malapropism became a bit of a mantra at last week’s Inbound Marketing Summit. Social media isn’t complicated. When you boil it down it’s about listening to your customers, being helpful by offering your knowledge and giving them interesting content to share and thereby advocate for you. The IMS speakers shared several case [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It seems [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
4 Must-Use Productivity Tools for Social Media by Christine Gallagher It’s a given–we all want to do more in less time with social media. The good news is that there are lots of tools to help automate your social networking [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 4, 2009
C.G Lynch interviewed me about some Twitter tips for job seekers. You can see how I use Twitter in action, by following me @philreCareered. I’ve highlighted my comments in bold: Though LinkedIn tops the list of professionally-oriented social networks for job seeking, you can also use Twitter to get the word out about your skills [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
Image via Wikipedia How to Survive a Social Media Guru Explosion Everybody seems to be a “social media guru” these days. Like a real world sausage-fest, the “guru-fest” on Twitter and Facebook where four out of every five members claim to be some sort of ninja, jedi, maven, strategist or expert [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 7, 2009
Image via CrunchBase I’ve been on a bit of a LinkedIn kick as of late. I have been lucky enough to help some good friends in their job search, by leveraging social media and networks; specifically linkedIn. I came across an interesting whitepaper titled Six Tips for Using LinkedIn and Other Social Networks for Recruitment Success. [...]
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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