Tag: Twitter

  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Tim­mer­man Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Recruiters who know social media are in demand

    Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a… http://flpbd.it/WuLdr Related articles Using Twitter As A Social Recruiting Tool (windmillnetworking.com) LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…

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  • Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

    Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing: This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe’s…

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  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

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  • Measuring debate performance on Twitter

    Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com Related articles Things Get Rough on Twitter Over Gun Debate (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com) Shocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate (businessinsider.com) Infographic: 2012 Service Desk Industry Round-Up (sunrisesoftware.co.uk) oLyfe Reveals Social Media Sentiment around…

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  • Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

    Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online Related articles Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com) Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com) Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com) Facebook deleting…

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  • Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

    Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…

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  • #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

      By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media:…

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  • How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

      How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media     Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com   Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…   http://flpbd.it/x1nqQ…

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