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.
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 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 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 [...]
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…
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…
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…
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..
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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