Social Media Marketing

Omniture: Industry Insights » Blog Archive » Social Media in 30 Seconds
Omniture posted a nice slide with a breakdown of the domains of social media.
If social media confuses you, this does a great job of clarifying what each realm represents.

How Hashtags are Remaking Conversations on Twitter – NYTimes.com
The always enjoyable Virginia Heffernan wrote a column this week on how hashtags are changing the conversations on Twitter.
Hashtags are those little keywords prepended with a pound sign – like in this blog post’s title.
They are the subjective, descriptive little tags added by the tweeter as a [...]

Common Craft’s cute video that explains how social media is like everyone making and promoting their own brand of ice cream

Try out Twitter Job Search to find listings in your area. I am finding that there are jobs posted on Twitter that never make it to job boards of any kind.
Why?

Twitter has a smaller audience than job boards
Twitter is usually a more technically sophisticated group
Twitter is social media
Twitter’s free

TwitterJobSearch.com – Twitter Job Search [...]

Good at social media but not ‘experts’ | Juice Digital.
The term “expert” is overused and one that begs challenge by its users, aside from a precious few. With the outbound marketing techniques rapidly falling away, many marketers are scrambling to redefine and reposition themselves with new monikers that keep their resumes marketable. The risk, however, [...]

Seattle Job Social continues to be the best networking event in Seattle for professionals. I am grateful, too, that I get to be a part of it. By working on promotions and public relations, I speak directly with recruiters around Seattle and for enrollment and sponsorship. This also gives me great insight into what they [...]

LinkedIn: LinkedIn Tools: JobsInsider
This is the best tool I have found lately for uncovering job leads – and finding out who knows who.
With the LinkedIn JobsInsider toolbar installed to your browser (Internet Explorer for Windows; Firefox for Windows or Mac), when you visit a job board site a side panel opens. From there, JobsInsider scans [...]

Jobfeedr.com IT & Media Jobs delivered to you by Twitter & RSS!
I have attended an average 2 networking events a week in January, met many great people, and each time I chat about social media. People keep commenting:
“What IS Twitter?”
“I’m on LinkedIn but I don’t really use it.”
“My son/daughter is on Facebook.” (Implied: “But I’m [...]

Read the blog entry as well as watching the video
Looking for a job? Use Twitter | Jeff McCord’s Blog.

How Social Media Can Land You A Job!

Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation & the Web » Blog Archive » Expand Your Brand & Career: Open a Twitter Account. Right Now.
A great primer on the how-to, the why and the return on incorporating social media tools like Twitter into your life. Build your personal brand, expand your company’s brand, have discussions. Follow great contributors [...]