Bacon, Pork and Swine (Puerco??)
Swine flu is only the latest attempt to besmirch the reputation of America's favorite white meat (after chicken of course). Even the President is getting into the game of Online Reputation Management.
read moreAshton Kutcher hits 1,000,000 followers on Twitter
I have to eat some crow this evening. (morning) It is 2:22AM EST and Ashton Kutcher hit 1.000,000 Twitter followers before CNN. This competition was tracked live and Twitter even helped by blocking any attempts to “unfollow” either Ashton or CNN as the race to one million got closer. Seriously though, beyond the sort of moronic competition, Ashton actually carried himself well as he described social media networks and the fact that individuals matter now more than ever in this social media context. CNN and Ted Turner with all of their money, resources and power could not beat a single man...
read moreRecruiting Talent through Twitter
Hey guys, I just got off the phone with Larry Signorile from Johnson Resource Group. He had asked about how employment and recruiting firms could benefit from the use of Social Media. While the job market may be at its lowest in 25 years, there is still difficulty for recruiters to place the right candidate with the available position. Larry’s firm has a whole list of opportunities awaiting the right candidate to respond. How can Larry meet his business objective (recruiting talent) through the use of Social Media? First off, I promised to elaborate on how to use Twitter to post jobs...
read moreAdded BashFoo.org feeds to LinkedIn
The newest technology innovations today all call for loosely coupled integration points. For lay folks, loosely coupled technologies refer to an approach to designing interfaces across modules to reduce the interdependencies across these modules or components. This essentially ensures that changes made to one system do not cause fault within another. Social media and Social networking services all have embraced in some way this system of loose coupling of services. Either by API call, the rendering of a messaging service (such as XMPP) or even the use of asynchronous email these service...
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