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Employers & Your Online Reputation

February 1, 2010

Our study found 70% of surveyed HR professionals in U.S. (41% in the UK) have rejected a candidate based on online reputation information. Reputation can also have a positive effect as in the United States, 86% of HR professionals (and at least two thirds of those in the U.K. and Germany) stated that a [...]

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Status Updates – The Ties that Bind

January 7, 2010

We live in an amazing time. That sounds trite but it’s true nonetheless. Reconnecting with friends in person over the recent Christmas-New Year holiday reinforced how easy it is to keep in touch with those live hundreds or thousands of miles away. Between Facebook and Twitter, we are able to maintain and renew ties with [...]

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Social Media? Why? How? When?

February 12, 2009

This began as a comment on Scott Hepburn’s post Social Media Graduates to the “How?”, but given how quickly my comment was growing, the fact that I was shifting the topic a bit and my inconsistent posting, I decided to flesh out my thoughts in a post of my own.
So here we go.
One key [...]

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Twitter’s Hidden Benefit

January 6, 2009

Twitter makes it easy for me to keep up with my dear friends here in town and those flung about the globe. I can stay on top of ever-moving trends, learning about them in minutes if not seconds. Twitter connects me when I’m ready to be connected and allows me to reach out when I [...]

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SXSW Accelerator

December 31, 2008

The folks at SXSW are starting a new program this year dubbed Accelerator. It’s aimed at up and coming, under-the-radar companies, allowing them “to present their latest products and services to industry experts, early-adopters, bloggers, mainstream media reporters, and leaders of the venture capital community.”
If you recall how Twitter catapulted onto the scene a [...]

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