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is twitter a waste of time?

By Bryan Starbuck -Twitter was the hot topic at the Florida ERE 2008 conference. The key note was almost entirely about using Twitter in the recruiting process. However, as people walked out of the key note, their chatter mainly fell into these categories: Category #1: What is Twitter? None of this makes sense. Category #2: How do I get started using Twitter? Category #3: Isn’t Twitter a big waste of time?

twitting on the toilet

By Vanessa Dennis - At the recent ERE Expo, a term that I heard industry experts toss around quite a bit was "tools." How do recruiters choose which new Web 2.0 (or 3.0) tool to add to their arsenal, and how are these tools changing how we recruit? On a panel that was moderated by Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads, Cheezhead blogger and SEO expert Joel Cheesman, Yahoo's Senior Talent Acquisition Manager Carmen Hudson, and JobMachine's Shally Steckerl each described which tools are most important to them and how pervasive these recruiting weapons have become. Steckerl put it best when he said, "You cannot stop it. It's everywhere. People are even twitting from the bathroom stalls."

a heaven for business cards

By Vanessa Dennis - CloudContacts is a new service that digitizes and manages contacts by placing business cards in a cloud and allowing users to access them anywhere on a web interface.

twittertise - tracking click-thrus on twitter

twitorg, twitplan, twitterlicious - and now twithire

By Vanessa Dennis - A new application for Twitter is now available for job seekers. TwitHire lets companies condense their job postings into 140 characters or less. So how much is this going to cost?

twitter overtakes msn as driver of traffic to cheezhead

I’m officially a Twitter believer. In checking traffic from last month, the microblogging platform overtook MSN search as the No. 6 driver of traffic to Cheezhead. What’s more, Twitter-generated traffic looked at almost twice as many pages, stuck around about 4 minutes longer and bounced 12 percent less than visitors from the nation’s third largest search [...]

recruiting in a social world

We are in the midst of a significant communication transformation. The momentum being generated through the fingertips of individuals seems to have taken off exponentially in the past few months. February metrics from Compete offer an exciting view into growth across several networks. Accounting for the high levels of growth already experienced last year when Facebook [...]