On Thursday and Friday last week I attended Web Directions South 2008, my first web only conference in a while. Overall it was a good event, but like most conferences there were some up & downs. Probably the biggest two downs were the opening Key Note and the lack of coffee on arrival on FridayContinue reading “Thoughts from Web Directions 2008”
Category Archives: Social Networks
Quoted in the AFR
A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Beverley Head a freelance journalist about recruitment and web 2.0. Today the Australian Financial Review launched their IT Innovations special report with Beverley’s article quoting me. While the article is primarily about KPMG’s virtual career fair that kicks off later this month, I do end up withContinue reading “Quoted in the AFR”
2Vouch for your friends and get paid
Launching their public beta today, September 1, is Australia’s newest social recruiting service called 2Vouch. (Disclosure: I have done some work for 2Vouch.) Having been in private alpha testing over the last month or so the Melbourne based company is for the first time allowing the public access to their service. The best way toContinue reading “2Vouch for your friends and get paid”
Basic community manager role
The role below floated across my desk on Friday, specifically targeted at students as it was advertised on the Swinburne University employment site for students. A few interesting points. Firstly there are more and more of these roles requesting skills within social media, and secondly they are targeted to university students. I suspect employers haveContinue reading “Basic community manager role”
10 tips to build your network
It seems today you cannot go anywhere without hearing about social networks and their value to business. This is all very good but what happens if you don’t have a large professional network? Below are 10 easy to implement tips on how to build up your professional network. Join the social networks online The firstContinue reading “10 tips to build your network”
Need to learn about web 2.0, come to university
If you are in Australia, and interested in learning about Web 2.0 then you should get yourself to Sydney on September 23 and attend the Web 2.0 University being run as a extra session at Web Direction South. The Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp session is being co-hosted by Jeff Kelly & Stephen Collins and isContinue reading “Need to learn about web 2.0, come to university”
Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?
About 2 hours ago Twitter announced they were stopping their SMS notification service outside of the US, Canada, UK and India as it was costing them too much money. Now I completely understand a business needs to make money and the a free service cannot last forever but the way this change has been implementedContinue reading “Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?”
Recruiting or Branding failure?
I read a article (thanks Plugger) about how the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment need to recruit over 500 firefighters for the coming season. So I clicked on the link to read to full story and read a good story about their recruiting needs. Mr Rash said the love of the bush and theContinue reading “Recruiting or Branding failure?”
Job referral survey
At the beginning of last month I ran a short survey to find out how job referrals where being used within Australia. The results are now available for download. So what did the survey say? Well in summary it confirmed several facts. First, referrals are big business with 87% of respondents being referred a jobContinue reading “Job referral survey”
Generation V podcast
Yesterday while I was in the middle of my PRINCE2 course I ducked outside (literally outside in the freezing Melbourne wind) for 30 minutes to participate in The Scoop podcast for MIS Australia hosted by Mark Jones. The topic Generation V, or generation virtual. I was a little uncertain what to expect as the fellowContinue reading “Generation V podcast”
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