I’ve been doing some work for a recruitment consultancy recently so I’ve started following a few recruitment industry accounts on Twitter. To find them I simply searched Twitter for accounts to do with ‘recruitment’ and ‘human resources’ and followed a few that looked interesting. A lot of them turned out to be job boards which… [Read more…]
December 21, 2010
Or: why we need both ‘to tweet’ and ‘to twitter’ There’s been some discussion among grammar/web geeks about correct terminology around social media platform of the hour Twitter. Here’s my weigh-in/explanation for anyone who cares. When you’re tweeting, you’re posting a tweet via a Twitter account. When you’re twittering, you could be doing anything at all… [Read more…]
November 5, 2010
Here’s some of what I found interesting this week. Click, comment, argue. You know I love it. Facebook created a chart showing when most relationship break ups happen. Call-girl/writer talks about the evolution of the politics of female pubic hair. A friend of mine who recently released a family memoir gave a speech on the notion… [Read more…]
October 12, 2010
In mid-November, I’ll be doing another event blogging project, this time for Tipping Point in Brisbane. It’s a two-day, invitation-only forum for artists, scientists and thinkers to explore ways to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, and it’s being hosted by my old workplace, The Edge. This event blogging is pretty interesting. While I… [Read more…]
September 17, 2010
So says a Twitter exec. And, he’s right. It’s a social media tool that existing social networks use to communicate and grow and that people use to form new social networks. Duh. Quick vocab lesson Social network = a network of people who interact with each other, often around a particular activity eg a book… [Read more…]
September 6, 2010
An article on econsultancy.com posits that There’s no such thing as “cruise control” with social media. Unnecessary quotation marks aside, I agree with the headline’s statement. It uses Britney Spears’s Facebook fan page as a case study. Apparently its Photos from Others section is full of images advertising hardcore porn. The article says that her people should… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
Some articles popped up today all about non-Gen-Y social media users. Over 45s have been Facebook’s fastest growing demographic for a while now, so it’s not new news, but it’s still interesting*. An American survey reports that ‘Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42%… [Read more…]
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