Digital Recruiting

Facebook App Overload

Following on from Alex's post, just to see if the blog can take even more streaming media this week! Tim this one is for you!

Is there such a thing as too much streamed video?

You Tube would tend to indicate probably not - but if there is a saturation point for blog posted videos then I reckon we'll be reaching it pretty soon ;-)

Anyway - saw this from e3unlimited (they're presenting at an event I'm also speaking at at the end of the month - Exploding current myths in Graduate Recruitment) - and whilst it's largely taken inspiration and some content from the "shift happens" video (which it credits), it's still a nice execution of mind blowing stats.

enjoy...

Guess this is as good a place as any...

...to announce officially that I'm branching out and going solo. Well more duo actually - but you know what I mean.

After 6 happy and exciting years at ThirtyThree the time has come to go see just how big and bad the world of self employment really is. It'll be a gentle start as the guys at ThirtyThree have asked us to hang around for a month or two longer on a part time basis to ensure the transition for clients is seamless, but as of May 23rd (drum roll please) 3D MarComms goes from dream to reality.

Anyway - busy ole time at the mo, but if you want to find out more then leave your details at our holding page (www.3DMarComms.com) and when we get a chance to do our own stuff we'll make a site (that's kinda quite a big part of what we'll do) and we'll let you know, because we're nice like that. Anything more pressing then you can of course email me directly.

OK - big breath - here goes everything!

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Twitter. What is it? Do you need to care?

Not sure how many of you have caught the Twitter bug, but it really is strangely addictive. When pushed to describe it to people, it's difficult to know where to begin. Telling people  "its micro blogging - instant and mobile" and that "you follow and are followed by people, with whom you're able to share ideas and links" just doesn't do it justice. The cutest way I've heard it described is by Wired who described it as "almost like ESP...a Social Sixth Sense".

There has been some dissenting voices in our space, but - like most things in life - there really is no substitute for giving it a try. Once you've found people you want to follow (the best way to do that is by checking out the followers of people - check out me /Carve on Twitter , Matt Alder and Peter Gold for example. If you follow people (and you've got something interesting to say) people will then follow you.  And that's it. It's only when you're involved in these micro-dialogues that you realise how powerful it can be.  For example, what about an airline providing its followers with real time flight offers, or delays? (one US airline is doing this) Or for a recruiter to send latest contracts via The Guardian recently wrote a great piece on How to get the best out of Twitter For those of you who can't be bothered to link, here's some cool twitter tools you might want to check out:

Finding people

www.Whoshouldifollow.com
www.Twitdir.com - directory
www.Twitterholic.com - the top users and accounts

Searching and organising

www.Summize.com - search for a word or phrase across the entire Twitter feed. www.Quotably.com creates threads of discussions between people.
www.Terraminds.com -  search engine, for users or phrases.
www.Tweetscan.com - search by user and time.
www.Twitterlocal.net finds twitterers near you.

Sharing

www.Twitthis.com,-  lets people looking at your site or blog share the URL via Twitter. www.Twitturly.com - what's being most linked-to and talked about?
www.Tweetmeme.com -  what sort of topics are being discussed?

Visualise

www.Twittervision.com -  Google Maps mashup showing where tweets are being posted.
www.Twitterverse - tag clouds
www.Twittearth.com - visualisation of tweets, put onto a spiralling globe. www.Tweetwheel.com - which of your friends are already following each other?

And..

http://pipes.yahoo.com/ouseful/tweetspeech -  Yahoo Pipes converts (incoming) tweets to speech
www.Twittersnooze.com - hit the "snooze button", briefly, on verbose friends ( if you're a follow of Alder or Scobble you need this ;-p
http://www.wp.korelab.com/yet-another-twitter-badge-twitter-balloon - your tweets superimposed on an image of your choosing.
www.twerpscan.com, avoid followers who befriend everyone: may be spammers.

After the Digital Recruiting blog beers last night, I am also pleased to report that Twittering is good of hangovers. See you on Twitter! Follow us: www.twitter.com/carveconsulting

I can't be bothered to think of an interesting title for this.

As someone has commented on YouTube, (adopt west coast drawl) awesome. However I was enthusing about it to a client, but that same 'ol glazed over look appeared. Ho hum

No Sex in the office then!

Careerbuilder have chickened out and pulled their video so the link in the previous post doesn't now work. Don't worry though the ERE site has a copy and the full story here

Call me cynical but this whole pulling the video thing smells like a wider publicity stunt, either that or their agency / marketing deparment is having a very bad day today!

Sex in the work place?

Well that got your attention!

Latest viral from Careerbuilder.com as tracked down by Cheezhead

LinkedIn - Follow up post 2

Interesting article here as posted by Peter Gold earlier.  Yes of course you would expect this to happen for a social media marketing manager role  (now there's a job that didn't exist 18 months ago!) but I still maintain it's the beginning of a major trend. My original thoughts are here and the first follow up post is here.

How many UK publishers are living on borrowed time?

Interesting article here from The New York Times. Gives an example of yet another US newspaper closing it's print edition and then goes on to profile how publisher IDG has transformed it's revenue base to become a majority digital business.

How many UK publishers can say they have done the same and how many have proper plans in place to do so? There is much hype around but personally I've seen only a tiny handful that truly get it, know where they need to be and most importantly know how to get there

Still the combination of falling readership, falling ad revenues, growing digital literacy, growing digital ad revenues and an economic slowdown will no doubt expedite the process. So cast your votes; which UK titles are going digital only first and which ones are just going

Matt

FR2.0

As we seem to be having Social Media week here on Digital Recruiting I thought I point out, to those who hadn't noticed, that Friends Reunited has had a web 2.0 face lift. Too little too later or perfectly poised to capitalise on having an alleged older demographic than Facebook? Who knows these days but I suspect the former. Despite the new platform (which does have some nice features) I couldn't see any clever job content integration, just a co-branded feed for Jobsite. So is it one last roll of the dice for ITV or just some tweaking to help them offload it?