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Looking for a job? Check out these 4 steps to getting a #job via #Twitter
Tips to help you use Twitter to find a job. Have you used Twitter during your job search? Please share your experience.
Use Twitter to Get a Job: 4 Steps
When it comes to social networks and job-hunting, Twitter trumps Facebook, according to Dan Schawbel, author of Me 2.0, Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success. “Twitter is the best place because it’s public networking,” says Schawbel. Facebook, meanwhile, is just too personal a space to approach someone you don’t know and with whom you share no friends. “I’d never say to send resumes to hiring managers on Facebook…It’s like infringing on people,” he says.
The second edition of Schawbel’s book comes out in October. It has an extra 60 pages, including a chapter on how to use social networks to land a job. After another round of disappointing unemployment data Friday morning, I decided to pick his brain for more advice on Twitter to boost your chances of landing a job. Here are four steps.
1. Craft a Specific Network
Make a list of the top three to five companies in specific locations where you’d love to work, says Schawbel. Then head to Twellow.com, a sort of Twitter Yellow Pages that helps you find people based on keywords in their bios. For example, type in “Accounting California” or “Microsoft PR” and Twellow gives you a list of Twitter users who have those keywords in their bios. From there you can narrow down the most appropriate people to follow.
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Check out the invisible “Like” button that Google has created.
I guess Google released the “Like” button and we didn’t know it. Kind of sneaky. 
Check out this article.
Another day and I read another post on how Facebook’s Like button is slowly obliterating Google’s Link as the next currency of the web. The pondered question in this case is what is going to be Google’s counter-offensive against the Like.
The assumption is that Google as a search engine has worked on the principle of ranking web pages according to the number of other pages linking to it. Well, here’s the deal: when a person likes something on the web, in most cases, a link is created. Google can see this Link, and hence can understand and incorporate the Like, in its scheme of things.
This mechanism has already been publicized by Google, but I’m surprised how many folks still keep discovering it as if it were something new. For example, see this from yesterday.
Facebook is releasing their Questions section in phases
Have you ever wanted to ask a question on Facebook to get help from others? Then you will have the option to do just that soon as Facebook rolls out their Questions section in phases to its users.
Millions of people ask their friends questions on Facebook every day. What new music should I listen to? Where’s the best sushi place in town? How do I learn to play the piano? Today we’re introducing Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets you pose questions like these to the Facebook community. With this new application, you can get a broader set of answers and learn valuable information from people knowledgeable on a range of topics.
Since we like to develop products carefully over time with your help, Facebook Questions is available to a limited number of people right now, and we’ll be developing it rapidly based on their feedback. We’re aiming to bring this product to all of you as quickly as we can.
Ask Anything, Get Quality Answers
Facebook Questions helps you tap into the collective knowledge of the more than 500 million people on Facebook. For example, if you’re vacationing in Costa Rica and want to know the best places to surf, you can use Facebook Questions to get answers from nearby surfing enthusiasts. Because questions will also appear to your friends and their friends, you’ll receive answers that are more personalized to you. To ask a question to the community, just click the “Ask Question” button at the top of the homepage. You can also ask questions about your friends from their profiles, similarly to how you would post on their Walls.
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What does Salesforce.com & Facebook have in common? Read on to find out.
Interesting connection is made between Salesforce.com and Facebook.
Salesforce.com lands Facebook as a customer
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff talked so much about the Facebook imperative that he landed the social networking giant as a customer.
Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it has landed Facebook as a CRM customer for its sales operation. Under the deal, Facebook will use Salesforce.com’s Sales Cloud 2. The system is deployed.
With the move Facebook gets access to Salesforce.com’s Chatter, which is designed to be the Facebook of the enterprise.
In fact, Facebook and Chatter already look like they were separated at birth.
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How Much Is Too Much Sharing On Social Media?
Just as so many people around the world do, I enjoy connecting with others via social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Sharing about my latest projects or great news that’s happening in my life are a couple of the things that I have in common with many other social media users. One great question I have is, “How much is too much sharing on social media?”
SPOILER ALERT: A lot of information is shared about a recent “Criminal Minds” episode entitled “It’s Out There”.
Recently, I watched a TV show called “Criminal Minds” and it had an episode about a stalker/killer who was stalking women who shared many personal details about their lives online using various social media websites. He would initially offer to install high-speed Internet access and at the same time he would install a single small camera that would allow him to monitor their activities. Then he would take his time getting to know them and breaking into their homes when they weren’t there to install more small cameras. He would also follow them online to see what they were sharing about their lives and he eventually started following them around until he entered their homes one final time and killed them.
I know this is a TV show and that this is somewhat extreme, but I view it as a very cautionary tale for “how much is too much sharing on social media”? I’m not trying to scare anyone about sharing information on social media websites, I just want to inform you about the dangers of sharing too much information. The video below is about 5 minutes from the episode that is very detailed and should only be watched by adults due to the nature of the video. I am so adamant about informing others about this issue that I felt it necessary to share this video. Please feel free to share your own views by leaving a comment below.
SPOILER ALERT: this shares about 5 minutes from the “Criminal Minds” show and is very detailed. Only suitable for adult audiences.
