Twitter is 4 today
A few months back on the 19th of November 2009 NESTA, as part of their Silicon Valley comes to the UK sequence of events, televised a discussion called “Social Media: A Force for Good?“. The panel was our very own national treasure, actor, QI master and twitterphile Stephen Fry, Biz Stone the Founder and Chief [...]
The Google Buzz Guide for the Enterprise (with Buzz Matrix)
There’s been a lot of noise over Google Buzz this past week. I haven’t seen an article about Buzz’s impact on the Enterprise so allow me to chime in. First, the impact of Buzz has been tremendous. Compare Google Wave search results with that of Buzz: Buzz (B) and Wave (A) As you can see [...]
Social Media as Storytelling
The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better [...]
Should you deactivate your Facebook Account when looking for a job?
Many people spend a lot of time on Facebook, and in many ways, spending time on Facebook is a great social interchange between friends, family, and people you know. What is well known is that employers, potential or actual also troll your Facebook account. This morning there was a message on Facebook that made me [...]
Use Social Networking to find your next job and love it
“Your job security no longer lies in having a job; it lies in knowing how to work the job market”. – @susanireland The attached file is Using social networking to find your next job and love it is meant to help people find their next job. This PDF is all about using Linkedin and other [...]
How to Connect on Social Networks
I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning. But then people’s actions tell me otherwise. I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on [...]
Crowd Source Your Next Job – Looking for Your Stories
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Looking for input from readers on how they conduct a job search using social media tools. While I have road tested just about every job tool out there from Monster in 1999 through Dice, Career Builder, Linkedin and other job sourcing tools – the bottom line is that all [...]
So, You Want to be a Platform?
Everyone wants to be a platform these days. And they are popping up faster than I can keep track of them. Facebook became a platform, enabling application developers to develop on top of Facebook. Next came the iPhone. Salesforce.com offered Force.com as a platform. Twitter became a platform. A few weeks back PayPal became a platform. AmEx bought [...]
What is going on with LinkedIn?
Some co-workers and I were studying the Alexa and Compete scores of popular social networking sites yesterday and I was shocked to see LinkedIn traffic dwarfed by Facebook, Google and MySpace. I include Google, because according to Jeremiah Owyang (and I agree), Google is building a stealth social network by linking all of it’s web [...]
Why you Need a Public and a Private Profile in Social Networking
Social networking when taken from the viewpoint of connecting people works; it is a brilliant way of getting people together across various age and demographic groups. The side effect of all this is that as we become more highly connected to each other we do tend to end up living in a fish bowl, everyone [...]
Social Media Oops Means We Get a Deep View at Microsoft
Reports are all over the internet that an employee at Microsoft has discussed the future of Windows, and what might be in line for the entire company. While the original blurb has been pulled down, this is not the first time that a social networking oops has fundamentally altered the career trajectory of an employee. [...]
LinkedIn’s Revenge: TechCrunch Down
If you blog, or have any sort of web presence, your visitor log is an amazing source of information, you just have to know how to use it. Sometimes I discover news based on the keyword searches that lead to my blog. This morning I knew LinkedIn was in trouble when I saw significant traffic [...]
SugarCRM Gets Cloud Connectivity
SugarCRM, leading open source CRM provider, today announced the availability of Cloud Connectors. These connectors can be used to tap into third party web services and provide relevant information inside the CRM. For example, they could tap into LinkedIn and offer contextual information about a client. This is a smart strategy on the part of [...]
