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Blog: Alternion. Social feed and email aggregation, search and engagement
Been a fan of CoTweet as a Twitter client for some time, but with it’s recent demise, I’ve been looking around. If I’m going to change though, I want a significant step forward…. found it! Alternion...
View ArticleBlog: Twitter’s recruitment video: #win or #fail …
You may have seen the recent recruitment video released by Twitter (embedded below for you). Half a million people have now, and it’s had serious coverage not only on recruitment industry blogs, but...
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Blog: What am I logged into?
I often remain logged into sites even after I move away from the tab to do something else. I’m lazy when it comes to logging off from anything other than a banking site. Probably not wise, but...
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Blog: Twitter vs Foursquare – just a local micro-trend?
I wrote recently about visualising FourSquare check-ins after I watched adoption of the platform skyrocket during SXSW. When I wrote that, I wanted to follow up with some micro-level observations on...
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Blog: If Twitter can’t do Mobile, what chance do YOU have?
Having started with social, many leading edge recruiters are turning their attention to mobile now. What tech exists, should we build apps, what constitutes a good mSite, do the traffic figures really...
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Cartoon: Someone is wrong on the Internet …
Loads to write about, so little time. Prompted by a friend over in Facebook to go find this and share it though. Enjoy- normal blogging will resume shortly I hope! The post Cartoon: Someone is wrong on...
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Twitter, customer service and employee trust – @SouthernRailUK
So on route to #trulondon this morning, my train was running both late and over-crowded. My ticket was valid, but not for first class. The entire train was packed, standing room too, except first...
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Blog: Where’s the Quiet Man?
The level of posts being pushed out by some companies on social platforms seems to be ever increasing, to the point of deafening. I’ve seem numerous complaints about this over the past few weeks, on...
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Twitter’s own profile recommendations
I’ve written before on how I use Twitter, and included there some thoughts on what I like to see on a profile to catch my interest. Thing is though, that’s only my opinion. Is one opinion worth more...
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Social media image size cheat sheet
Something that’s been a pain to me in the past, and no doubt a constant pain to everyone else who’s ever tried to carefully prepare a social media page…. what size should the image be? Luckily, problem...
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Identifying Fake Twitter Followers
As announced recently, TwitCleaner has now closed down. I’ve been a big fan of this site and blogged a review some years back. I found it invaluable for undertaking quick, occasional maintenance on my...
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What was your first tweet?
Twitter search has always been an interesting beast, with only limited history available. Now, you can at least obtain your own history, right back to your first tweet. In a few short steps, you can...
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Which Twitter Clients are being used most?
There are regularly articles on new Twitter clients, new features and usage stats – but the landscape moves so fast, they’re out of date in a month or two. I’ve just found a little page which monitors...
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What does your social footprint look like?
I recently noticed Max Heywood running a little side project under the tag #socialfootprint (with both Facebook and Twitter streams!). Many I know take stock of their differing social presences from...
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Updating your Twitter Widget
Twitter’s API went through a major update this month. As a result, many of the blogs I read have seen their Twitter widget cease working. For the truly technical, Twitter’s write-up on the API changes...
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Two step verification – worth it?
Seeing more sites using two step verification recently, the latest being Twitter. I can understand why, with several high profile account hacks hitting the news and a long wait to get account thefts...
View Article100 most social HR experts on Twitter
So a list of “the 100 most social HR experts on Twitter” this list has been doing the rounds today, courtesy of this Huffington Post article. I call BS. First up though, I want to be clear – I know...
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Want the news links from Twitter, but don’t have the time?
Been a while since I posted anything here – was prompted to do so by the beta launch of Twurly, built by Darren Greaves. I’ve a deep-seated love of those tools which do something simple, elegant and...
View ArticleReplacing your career site with LinkedIn or Facebook? Think again.
Time for a weekend rant – gotta get this one off my chest! I’ve heard a bunch of people previously discuss whether it’s still worth building your own website, or whether Facebook can actually replace...
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