7 Cool Resumes We Found On Pinterest Twitter Approaching 500 Million Users Twitter’s tipping point into the spectrum of social media consciousness was in 2007, when it started generating significant attention at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. Since then the 140 character micro blogging platform has continued to attract both users and investors. In the 5 years since launching it has attracted significant investment funds with an estimated total capital raising of over $1.3 billion. The 2 most significant investments have been: Digital Sky Technology in August, 2010, which at over $800 million was reported to be the most significant venture round in historySaudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal on December 2011, invested $300 million This at the time valued Twitter at $8.4 billion. Twitter does not provide details on its users number very often, but in February 2011, Twitter announced it had 200 million registered accounts tweeting 155 million tweets a day. Twitter’s Second Tipping Point Twitter Sign Ups Over One Million a Day More reading Image by Irish Typepad
Presentation Design Techniques from the Masters by @slidecomet 5 Steps to Connecting with the Movers and Shakers on LinkedIn Finding, Connecting and Building Win-Win Relationships Networking is the cultivating of positive, give-take relationships between two or more people that are beneficial to one another. In the past you had to set aside specific time with which you could network with a group of people, think Chamber of Commerce mixers, industry get-togethers, and conferences. With the onset of web 2.0, a plethora of social networks and the desire to become more connected, networking can now be an everyday occurrence. Having said that, it's not too difficult to stand out from the crowd if you follow my suggestions in this post. Step 1: Finding The Right People To Connect With While what I'll be covering in this post can be used on other social networks, with slight modification of course, I will be talking in terms of LinkedIn. First, make sure that your profile is completely filled out, with no typos or grammatical errors. Complimentary Businesses Other Services Step 2: Connecting With the Right People - David
3 Things to Know About Your New Pinterest Profile Pinterest began rolling out new profile pages today (March 16) that put more emphasis on the people behind the photos. If that makes you feel a bit self-conscious about your "pinning" expertise, we've got some tips on how to get your new profile in shape for pinner scrutiny. Who are you? The new profile page moves your name and description up to the top where it's far more visible than the old version. Tweak your boards The order of your boards — collections of photos with common themes — has become more important, but it's easy to rearrange them. Unfortunately, you cannot rearrange the photos themselves. Follow more pinners Pinterest said in its blog post that even seasoned pinners had trouble finding out who follows them and who they’re following. Pinterest says that when you’re browsing profiles, you can see all the things pinners have been doing on the network.
I didn’t hire you for a reason If only bosses could talk! We’d be able to find out why it was that we didn’t get the call back, didn’t get the interview, didn’t get that sweet job we thought we were just perfect for. There must be a reason, right? One of the biggest frustrations of the modern job hunt is “the black hole” — that super-gravitational mass that sucks in resumes and applications and emits no feedback, no light, no rhyme or reason. So this week and next week, I’m going to let the boss “talk.” This week we’ll focus our “interview” on those things you can control: your resume, your interview, and your application. So taking those things you can control as to why that boss didn’t hire you, let’s get started with our interview with a hypothetical hiring manager — we’ll call her Betty Boss … Me: Betty, thanks for taking the time to talk with us. Betty Boss: You’re quite welcome. Me: OK, Betty, you say you didn’t hire this candidate “for a reason.” Betty: Well, the most important thing is, I never saw your resume.
How to Make Your Tweets More Trustworthy [STUDY] Ever feel like you tweet something important, but no one believes you? A recent study shows you how to boost the credibility of your tweets, making people take them more seriously. And it's not just marketing fluff; the study was conducted by researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University. Among the lessons for how to get trustworthy tweets: Gain followers and retweets, include URLs in your posts, have a profile picture, and fill out your bio with information related to topics you tweet about. The researchers surveyed more than 250 Twitter users to determine what factors do and don't lend tweets credibility. Then they scored that group of factors on a scale of one to five, five being the highest. Here are the top 10 things that make tweets more trustworthy, along with their respective scores: And here are the five least gravitas-lending factors for tweets:
Big Marketers on Campus The Twitter Impact of SXSW There were 224 Tweets about South by Southwest on the first day of the interactive conference back in 2006. That was the year the then fledgling microblogging platform became legitimate, largely because the SXSW crowd took to it so well. Quick and easy communication while you’re lost in a sea of people trying to find your friends was the premise that allowed Twitter to become uber useful, uber fast. On the first day of this year’s SXSW conference, there were 224,302 Tweets about it. My friends at Spredfast (client) put together a neat little infographic on the impact a relatively small group of people (100,000 users on Twitter were Tweeting about SXSW in the first 48 hours of the conference) could have while riding a theme (or meme) on Twitter. No, this isn’t to infer that you should do away with advertising and just find 100,000 people to Tweet about you.
Advertisers Keep It Real With 'Marie Claire' Flip through the advertisements in any fashion magazine, and it won’t take long to notice a defining feature among the women shilling for lipsticks or shoes: They’re all stunningly beautiful, very famous, or both. But so-called “real women” have been slowly entering the territory of the professionally glamorous as brands attempt to relate to the woman who is more concerned with balancing her checkbook than maintaining a size zero. Hearst Magazines’ Marie Claire is jumping on this trend with the May issue of Marie Claire@Work, its new, thrice-yearly supplement for working women that’s sent to subscribers in the top 10 markets. In addition, 100,000 newsstand copies are distributed. The May supplement will include ad campaigns from Buick, White House Black Market and Mustela featuring women from the Marie Claire Career Network on LinkedIn. When the network launched last fall, the magazine saw it as a way to connect with women across industries. Zeiss sees the trend continuing.
KONY 2012: Is the Viral Campaign a Scam? KONY 2012, a documentary produced by non-profit Invisible Children, has gone viral in the past couple days, receiving millions of views on YouTube and Vimeo. The video has also, however, begun to receive significant backlash from organizations and publications questioning the authenticity of Invisible Children. Many of the negative critiques have been targeted at Invisible Children’s practices as an organization, not whether Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is a war criminal. Visible Children, a Tumblr dedicated to evaluating the legitimacy of the KONY 2012 campaign, raised some points Wednesday morning which have resurfaced in numerous publications. “Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again. You can evaluate Invisible Children’s 2011 budget, which is public online, for yourself: $1,074,273 was allocated to travel and $1,724,993 was allocated to staff compensation. — Metro Morning (@metromorning) March 7, 2012
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