by Brad Friedman | Social Media
Are you looking for your first job, changing careers, or do you just want to set yourself up to succeed in the future? Social media websites have become important venues for building that all-important network of connections, show the world who you are and what you’re passionate about, and, quite possibly, enabling you to get the job you’ve always wanted. There are many examples of people obtaining various types of work through social networks. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
A couple days ago, our friends at LinkedIn launched “Follow Company” to make it easy for you to follow companies you are interested in. After following a company, you will get notifications like Facebook “status updates” when the company you are following posts something. This feature appears to be in line with what used to be called the Facebook “Fan” page (Now I suppose it is the Facebook “Like Page”) and Twitter, that enables you to follow people and companies you are interested in. Now, the companies you follow will be able to let you know about the people they hire, the people they promote, new job opportunities, and press release type information. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
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Is this what it's come down to. Our life is shared with others in 140 character increments. Is this the end of communication as we know it? Will our children ever learn how to read and write. Will novels still be written? Probably, but time will tell.
by Brad Friedman | Social Media |
LinkedIn just released some pretty exciting changes to its link-sharing capabilities. LinkedIn members may now share image and article excerpts, they may re-share links, and use LinkedIn's new shortened URL. If you already use Facebook, the eight new features introduced today will be familiar to you. I think the most interesting changes are those which enhance a member's status updates. As of today, if you paste a link into your status update, just like in Facebook, when you click on “attach a link” LinkedIn will automatically pull and post an image along with an excerpt from the article you are linking to. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
From the movie “Field of Dreams”
This Guest Post is written by Lauren Friedman, Community Genius, at Context Optional in San Francisco. Like the title infers, Lauren is a genius at social media marketing and Facebook in particular. We're very proud to publish a post of hers. If you are interested in publishing a Guest Post, please read the Guidelines on the homepage and get in touch with me. Oh, I almost forgot, Lauren also happens to be my daughter! We hope she'll write for us again in the future. So, you've decided to join the rest of the world on the quest to market via social networks. Congratulations! But you can't completely remove yourself from under a rock quite yet. (more…)
Are you looking for your first job, changing careers, or do you just want to set yourself up to succeed in the future? Social media websites have become important venues for building that all-important network of connections, show the world who you are and what you’re passionate about, and, quite possibly, enabling you to get the job you’ve always wanted. There are many examples of people obtaining various types of work through social networks. (more…)
