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Using Social Media As A Recruitment Tool

Using Social Media As A Recruitment Tool

April 28, 2010 10 Comments

There are lots of industries that social media is helping to change and one of those that are starting to see some of their budgets slip away is recruitment. For years recruitment has been owned by expensive recruitment agencies and consultants who have large databases of candidates that they match up directly but once again social media is starting to become effective at cutting out the middle man and connecting potential employees with employers directly.

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Facebook in action : a democratic web

Facebook in action : a democratic web

Facebook April 27, 2010 Leave a Comment

Discussion around how Facebook is fostering a semantic web has been discussed following the f8 conference last week, but what about a democratic web?

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We’re hiring!

We’re hiring!

April 26, 2010 3 Comments

We’ve got 2 job roles going at Simply Zesty – for an Account Executive and Client Manager. Are you one of them?

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How To Make Your About Us Page Stand Out

How To Make Your About Us Page Stand Out

April 20, 2010 5 Comments

We like to do things a little differently here and we like the site to have as much personality as possible. We do it through our writing and the pictures and videos that we share both here and on Facebook but one area that we wanted to look at was the about us page. We [...]

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HUGE : New Facebook “Like” Button Goes Live And Replaces “Fans”

HUGE : New Facebook “Like” Button Goes Live And Replaces “Fans”

Facebook April 19, 2010 5 Comments

We knew this was going to be a big week for Facebook with lots of changes being rolled out they have started with the new “Like” button that we wrote about last week. The move by Facebook takes away the pressure of becoming a fan and makes it easier to have lighter engagements with brands [...]

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10 Top iPhone Tips & Tricks That You Might Not Know

10 Top iPhone Tips & Tricks That You Might Not Know

Technology 34 Comments

With more and more people around the world embracing the iPhone we asked @niallfagan to find 10 tips and tricks for the iPhone that might not be known to the average users but that could drastically improve your experience on the device. Niall shares his best iPhone tricks including how to send multiple photos via email and the very useful ways in which you can preserve battery life…

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Could Facebook Be About To Enter And Win The Location Battle?

Could Facebook Be About To Enter And Win The Location Battle?

Facebook April 18, 2010 1 Comment

The battle to win the location game is hotting up with start ups like Gowalla and Foursquare setting their sights on the title but there is one huge player that has yet to enter the market and when Facebook do they could make big waves. It looks like Facebook could use this week’s f8 conference to let the world know abou their location offering and with over 400 million users and 100 million of those already using Facebook on their mobiles the location based game could be about to change significantly…

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How Twitter Is Coming Of Age

How Twitter Is Coming Of Age

April 16, 2010 Leave a Comment

The last year has seen massive growth for Twitter but it is only in the last couple of months that they seem to have actually grown up as a business and really made some big strong decisions and added key features that will see them become a major player long in to the future. I wanted to look at some of those key features and see just how Twitter is starting to evolve…

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Amnesty International’s user generated lobbying

Amnesty International’s user generated lobbying

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For anyone that’s looking for inspiration, this is a great example of an Irish organisation using social media to affect their traditional lobbying process, with a real goal at the end. It’s a brilliant campaign and the end results will certainly be inspiring..

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How To Integrate Twitter Feature @Anywhere In To Your Blog Or Website

How To Integrate Twitter Feature @Anywhere In To Your Blog Or Website

April 15, 2010 3 Comments

Adding the @anywhere twitter fucntion to your site could not be easier and we wanted to see just how easy it was to have hover over boxes on your site and we were actually able to integrate it in less than a couple of minutes. It is a great way of adding context to your articles and letting people decide if they want to follow the selected Twitter user or not. There will be a lot fancier integrations than this one but this is one of the first steps of Twitter becoming a fabric of the web…

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Some Very Useful Facebook Tips and Tricks

Some Very Useful Facebook Tips and Tricks

Facebook April 14, 2010 Comments Off

Facebook can be a little tricky at the best of times and there are often things that you think would be easy but really aren’t! I’ve put together some of my favourite tips and tricks for using Facebook, whether for business use (pages) or personal use (profiles) Suggesting a page to all your friends You [...]

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The iPad Video Review

The iPad Video Review

Technology April 13, 2010 10 Comments

When I heard about the iPad I knew that we needed one here at Simply Zesty as soon as we could get our hands on one and luckily a couple of days ago we got ours delivered. I wanted to play with it for a couple of days before reviewing it properly and I have [...]

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