Monthly Archives: July 2009

Work or Play?

Posted on July 29, 2009 by emily

My recent blog ‘Finding the Dream Job with Social Media’ got me thinking more about business networking and its place within the broad sphere of social media. Is business networking different to social networking? Should we keep the two separate? Are business networks a credible tool for employers and prospective employees alike? In an article from SEOmoz a selection of social and business networking sites are described with regard to their use as marketing tools. I will continue with Linkedin as an example; SEOmoz explain that this site is beneficial for gaining brand exposure for your business as it receives … Continue »

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Skype Me

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Claire

I was never a Skype user. I didn’t have a computer with a camera so it was really just too hard. I could’ve just plugged a camera into my computer (can you do that?) but anyway that would have been far too much of an effort just to call someone, which I can already very easily do by picking up my mobile (or if I’m short on money, picking up my home phone). So when I got my new Apple Mac, with its handy little built in camera, I was told by my friends I had to install Skype. I … Continue »

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B2Cloud Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Josh Guest

Huitter – controlling followers on Twitter – http://bit.ly/MGu8M # @Optus please post your thoughts on tethering on this blog http://tinyurl.com/me3zlb – would like to know more # TwitCam: Live video streams for Twitter – http://twitcam.com/ # Email is old fashioned, it all about the Google Wave – http://wave.google.com/ # @rexster Great topic! Any material you suggest to read? – Josh in reply to rexster # Google wave is on its way. Time to get excited. http://bit.ly/aBGPt # The integraiton of social media through video and neat desktop app – http://www.seesmic.com # New 'how-to' guide from Twitter for businesses: Twitter 101 … Continue »

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Twitter and Education

Posted on July 23, 2009 by simon

Twitter and Education As we here at b2cloud see it, social media is here to stay, and as with any up and coming technology, often it is the young who take to it quickly, this raises the question for all the school-aged web 2.0ers – while there’s no doubt that it can be fun, even informative, can it be educational? This article in USA News focuses on the educational potential of web 2.0 applications – and uses the current media darling twitter as an example. The idea of an online collaborative tool is not revolutionary, indeed, perhaps attempting to use … Continue »

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B2Cloud Twitter Updates for 2009-07-22

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Josh Guest

TwitCam: Live video streams for Twitter – http://twitcam.com/ # Email is old fashioned, it all about the Google Wave – http://wave.google.com/ # @rexster Great topic! Any material you suggest to read? – Josh in reply to rexster # Google wave is on its way. Time to get excited. http://bit.ly/aBGPt #

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What is: the cloud

Posted on July 22, 2009 by simon

In the early days of photography the great Alfred Stieglitz was accused of always being in the right place at the right time. His photographs were great not because of his talent and eye for detail, but for where he was. In protest, Stieglitz then proceeded to take photos of clouds for the rest of his career – because they were the same to everyone. His photos remained breathtakingly beautiful. Today the cloud is simultaneously about both of these things – being in the right place, and being accessible. The Cloud is the name for a network of applications available … Continue »

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B2Cloud Twitter Updates for 2009-07-21

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Josh Guest

@Optus please post your thoughts on tethering on this blog http://tinyurl.com/me3zlb – would like to know more #

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Finding the Dream Job using Social Media

Posted on July 20, 2009 by emily

Unemployed? Perhaps spending your jobless days on the net and more specifically social media sites is not such a bad habit to get into after all. Typing ‘job search’ into Twitter’s search engine shows how effective social media can be in assisting in the quest for employment. Whether all results from this Twitter search are credible is another story. It is important to be selective and critical. Twitter has a number of applications dedicated to finding jobs, including ‘Twitter Job Search’ and ‘Twellow’ (Twitter’s version of the Yellow Pages). Linkedin is another social networking site that can be of help … Continue »

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B2Cloud Twitter Updates for 2009-07-20

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Josh Guest

Huitter – controlling followers on Twitter – http://bit.ly/MGu8M #

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My Social Media Path

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Claire

As I see it this is the path for me so far….. 2001 – Year Seven When I was in my early years of high school, chat rooms were the go, you would go online, chat with complete strangers with bizarre names from all over the world, until your parents would walk in, decide that what you were doing was dangerous and ban you from the computer. 2003 – Year Nine Then within a few years it was made possible for me to search for my friends online using MSN, you’d type in their email address and instead of spending … Continue »

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