A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for a restaurant that would be a good local place for a longish meet-and-greet meeting*, and I reached out to my social circles on Facebook and Twitter.
* In the end, we ended up at Paul Martin’s American Bistro in El Segundo. It was a suggestion from my [...]
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Social Media
Asking Questions on Facebook vs Twitter
December 4, 2009 · Comments
in Food, Los Angeles, Social Media
So this is what happened today: idle blog reading, leads to following link in the comments, leads to finding material written 4 years ago, leads to learning lots of new stuff.
I’m finding that this happens more often these days. Gotta love the blogosphere!
I’ve learned more from idle blog reading in the years after college as [...]
45% of employers check social networking sites before hiring (NYT)
I’m surprised the number isn’t higher. An employer is doing themselves a disservice by not checking online for mentions of a potential hire before offering them a job.
The survey mentions social networking sites, but doesn’t say what percentage of hiring manager just do a simple google [...]
Compete’s July newsletter highlighted the explosive growth of TweetMeme in the last 3 months.
Aggregator site Tweetmeme crushed it in July, ramping traffic by 85% month over month to 11.8MM UVs, suggesting that there is some real value in combing through the noise and offering consumable information.
I’ve been hearing for over a year now that Twitter [...]
I just watched this quick 20 minute video of Clay Shirky from TED. It’s a talk he gave titled “How social media can make history“. Or how it already has made history.
TED is doing an awesome job with their video presentation (in a technical sense). I love that there’s a transcript to the video on [...]
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