Social Media Marketing

Looking for women in technology to follow on Twitter? Nice list of recommendations here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/who-should-i-follow-on-twitter-women-in-tech/

Adopt social media into your everyday life and do it smartly and effectively. Social media will help you find what you need and want with minimal effort.

Why social media matters for the job seeker or those who think it is a passing fad. Why you should adopt social media tactics and tools into your job search and daily life.

By becoming more comfortable with networking, I learned a lot about myself. More importantly, I learned that many other people had a lot to learn as well. To boost my job search, I taught myself how to use social media in a smart way. Then I saw how many people were not using it at all. That was how the idea was born for my book.

Courtesy of the New York Times for the social media newbie in your life http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Tomorrow I begin reading an innovative hybrid of ebook and iPhone app. It’s “140 Characters” – a sort of how-to I am using as resource material for writing and research on a personal project that launches in early ’10. I’m looking forward to what seems like a regularly updated feed paired up with static content [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]