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Celebrity profiles on LinkedIn: You never know who you might find

April 1, 2011

Major Talent Finds Now Available Some of the talent available on LinkedIn is truly amazing. For example, if you need a Detective in London, you might like this chap working at 21B Baker Street in the Security and Investigations industry.  January 1900 – January 1917 (17 years 1 month) * Assisted Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, the Grand [...]

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Mastering social search and monitoring for your brand

March 30, 2011

Resources for Social Search Social search has been on my mind lately.   I am asked frequently about the best sites for social search – whether for pre-employment background checks, or for talent identification, for any of the multitude of other reasons that people have for looking up information about other people on the web.   Here is how [...]

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Get your social media credit score online!

March 26, 2011

MyWebCareer: your social media “Credit Score” MyWebCareer is an intriguing site that I ran across recently.  Currently in open beta, the site purports to show a sort of credit score for your on-line profile.  It is sort of like Klout, but offers a dashboard with a “credit score” for your on-line life.   They also offer [...]

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The new LinkedIn Fail Whale

February 20, 2011

Sorry, that is too many connections….. The message from Mountain Lakes, Wow, that is one large network, dude! I tried to use the rather cool new LinkedIn Network visualization tool and this is what it looked like.  You kind of have to wonder why they can’t handle bigger networks? From Drop Box Bummer!

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Are you going to quit your job in 2011?

January 27, 2011

Poll  – quitting your job? Take our poll and become an instant statistic!  Will you be quitting your job in 2011? From Drop Box

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A Social media primer for SHRM Chapter Leaders

January 17, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Using social media to push your brand I recently spoke at the HR Florida State Leadership Conference.   My presentation topic was Using social media to push your brand. People who came to the session may have hoped to hear me offer a blueprint for chapters to set up a social media program, [...]

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QR-codes are so 1990′s, and just right for HR!

January 16, 2011

Image via Wikipedia QR Codes – barcodes for the Web This code was originally made by the Japanese company Denso in 1994 for the use in the car industries. By now the QR-Code has advanced to the Asian standard code for mobile tagging. In Japan it is tagged 50 million times daily. — Mobile Tagging [...]

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LinkedIn beta test makes LI Groups visible, searchable, shareable

December 9, 2010

Image via CrunchBase I got the following message in my LinkedIn mailbox the other day:  I am pleased to announce that LinkedIn has selected Social Media Marketing as a beta group for open discussion, a new feature. This means that all future discussions will be fully visible, searchable, and shareable on the Web. Since we [...]

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The five “R’s” of job search

October 9, 2010

In a presentation I made last week at ConvergeSouth, I discussed the five “R’s” of social job search. While my list may not be the traditional list of “R’s” – reading, writing, and arithmetic – they are relevant to any  job search.  Here is a quick summary of the thoughts I shared Region Where you [...]

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ConvergeSouth is almost here!

September 24, 2010

Presenting at ConvergeSouth 2010 I am going to be doing a presentation on job search and social media next week at ConvergeSouth 2010.  I will be sharing information and thoughts on how to approach a job search using social media from a number of different perspectives.    I will also get to attend a bunch of [...]

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