Michael Specht

At the upcoming ATC Social Media conference (early bird prices until 30 September) I will be talking briefly about mobile recruiting. A topic I know is a little strange to some people, but I think effective use of mobile technology is going to become a critical part of a recruiters toolkit. Let’s face it mobile [...]

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Last week I did a short podcast with Nick McCormick, author of Lead Well and Prosper, looking at tips for managing social media in the workplace.
We spoke about implementing guidelines/policies within the workplace along with some of the potential issues and how to manage them.  However given the short format of the podcast, it is only 8 [...]

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Well do they?
(You do know what Dunbar’s number is right?)
This question was posed by Manu Prasad over in India, thanks to Gautam Gosh for pointing it out.
Manu ponders that:
if there was a Dunbar number for brands, dictated by the number of people the brand can connect with- internally as well as externally? There are [...]

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Earlier this week Twitter and LinkedIn announced a partnership whereby you can now share updates between both services. Given that according to Pew Internet & American Life Project a total of 19% of American online adults have posted a status update this change is significant.
Firstly it will give all those professionals on LinkedIn who feel [...]

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For the last couple of months Twitter has been testing out a new feature, Lists, and as of yesterday Lists were available to all users. So what is a list?
Anyone can curate and publish lists, so if you have an idea for one, just click “New list” in the sidebar of your Twitter account and [...]

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