Top Ten Things Job Hunters Should Do on Social Media I just spent the last two weekends teaching Social Media for Job Hunters at Bellevue College. It is always a great learning experience for me, and I hope, a valuable experience for the students as well. Here are some of the major takeaways. Please feel free to add your thoughts or argue with mine in the comments … [Read more...] about The Tens: Top Ten Things Job Hunters Should Do on Social Media
How Twitter Could have Planned for Success
Twitter's Biz Stone bemoans the company's lack of foresight during a Tavis Smiley interview today (Twitter Co-founder: "I wish we could have predicted it.") In anticipation of this topic, I wrote: Why Start-Ups Need More Strategic Planning, and Why Investors Should Help Provide It back in December, and I think is worth a re-read today. Briefly, entrepreneurs need … [Read more...] about How Twitter Could have Planned for Success
Early Results of #highered Survey on Social Media #edu #smcedu
Hear is an early result from my social media in higher education survey. It shows that face-2-face meeting continue as the preferred way to interact with instructors, followed by e-mail, then Facebook. If you haven't taken they survey yet, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/higheredsocialmedia or http://tinyurl.com/45p44mo Please tell your friends, your … [Read more...] about Early Results of #highered Survey on Social Media #edu #smcedu
Twitter, Egypt and Strategy
Some people have an issue figuring out Twitter's strategy. Perhaps today's events in Egypt have helped them define that strategy: Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. In the context of this week's events, this "goal" makes a lot of sense. If gives Twitter a meaningful purpose (at the same level as Google's mission to … [Read more...] about Twitter, Egypt and Strategy