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This week the following articles were keeping us here at B2Cloud up until the wee hours of the morning: How Twitter and Crowdsourcing Are Reshaping Recruiting An article which highlights the impact social media, in particular Twitter, is having on the recruitment process. When part of a job’s requirements is having 250+ followers on Twitter, you know this is a real issue. And at the other end of the spectrum: Survey: Over half of U.S. workplaces block social networks FBI warns of growing attacks using Facebook F-acebookers B-ehaving I-nappropriately Would You Pay $25 For Facebook Do you think if we … Continue
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The Ladies are Loving Social Media
It is a well-known and generally accepted fact that women speak more than men. I know most of the conversations I have with my boyfriend involve me doing the majority of the talking, while he is left to interject with quiet noises of assent and the occasional short sentence. It is as if we women are programmed to be social. We love to converse, to express how we feel, to hear how our friends and family are, what they are planning to wear to the Melbourne Cup, what they had for dinner last night and will be having for lunch … Continue
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If you can't beat them, Join them: A newspaper embracing digital media.
e-books are bigger and more popular than I previously thought. ‘For every 100 ink-and-paper books Amazon sells, 48 digital editions are bought for reading on Kindles.’ (The Age) And now Amazon has created a version of Kindle that can be used internationally. “Australia, here we come,” thinks Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as he gushes about how much positive feedback he has been getting from newly converted Kindle users. So the Age have pricked up their ears and in a spirit of forward thinking and moving with the times have offered its readers an m-book. Written by Marieke Hardy, a Triple-J … Continue
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Augemented Wikipedia Reality Has Arrived on the iPhone Apple’s new augmented reality application for the iPhone. A topic we have discussed in Josh’s post Augmented Reality. Facebook Movie to Start Filming Next Month That’s right…this is not a joke. In The World of Social Media, Women Rule This article provides readers with some interesting statistics regarding the differing levels of social media usage by men and women. Sandberg: Facebook can build your business, and now we can prove it Facebook gets serious about advertising. This might be a good thing for businesses but how will it affect us mere users? … Continue
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The Evolution of the e-book
I am a follower of a number of Australian independent publishing companies on Twitter. I have noticed lately a new trend amongst their tweets and postings involving e-books. This is a hot Web 2.0 topic in the publishing world, and for good reason. With the development of e-books, traditional books and all publishers come under threat. Whether this threat is justified or not is something I am interested in exploring. The main players in the plot of the e-book are Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. While the Reader has been around since September 2006 and Kindle since November 2007 … Continue
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Tagged Amazon, e-book, e-reader, Kindle, publishing industry, Sony Reader, twitter, Web 2.0
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10 People You Won’t See On Twitter Anymore Twitter toughens up and sets some serious rules in a bid to clean up spam, false accounts and general abuse. Mashable kindly explains these new rules before the games begin Checkmate, Twitter: Facebook ‘status tagging’ live Not to be outdone, Facebook introduces a new tool that allows users to tag friends and groups in status updates, using the symbol @. Sound familiar? The Disadvantage of Twitter and Facebook A thought provoking blog post which highlights the personal touch which forwarding emails provides and that Twitter and Facebook lack. Confirmed: Twitter is Saving … Continue
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No matter how good the book, a set text is never easy to read, remember Year 11 English? So we are not going to tell you what to read… merely make some suggestions. Every week we will post this blog, the B2Cloud-Storm, detailing what articles regarding social media we as bloggers have been reading. New facebook lawsuit: This time, over online privacy laws This article discusses one of the increasing numbers of lawsuits that are being filed against the heavy weights of social media. For a similar article, click here. Five challenges Social Media Will Bring To Business As the … Continue
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It doesn't have to be Christmas for you to get excited about Giftware
For those of you who don’t know (as I didn’t before I picked it up), Giftrap is the official magazine of gift and homeware Australia. Ok, I’m sure you are thinking: “Giftware…she is really clutching at straws for blog ideas” However, the front cover of the July/August edition of Giftrap is a telling trend of the latest direction all business is pointed. Wedged between two little blue birds on the front cover we see the headline: ‘Social Media Special: Twitter and Blog’s made easy’ Within its pages can be found three articles of a very introductory nature detailing how social … Continue
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Work or Play?
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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Tagged business networking, linkedin, marketing, Mashable, SEOmoz, social media, social networking, Web 2.0
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Finding the Dream Job using Social Media
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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Tagged business networking, job search, linkedin, social media, social networking, twitter, Web 2.0
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