What a difference a few years can make in the demographics of Twitter use. While researching my Using Twitter for career networking article in June of 2009, I came across many misconceptions being tossed around about Twitter. As reported on the nightly news, and various media outlet articles, Twitter was the favorite of the younger set, and used mainly to tweet [...]
Shortly after I began using Twitter, I became aware of many of the Twitter tools available -Twhirl, TweetDeck, and HootSuite. I used all of these on occasion, but eventually settled on HootSuite as my social media dashboard of choice. The ‘Send Later’ option was always a plus and made it very easy to schedule tweets [...]
Do you leverage social media for brand building and to get the word out to help with your job search? After completing the previous article in January, 8 tips for creating a social networking plan for your job search, I gave this a little more thought and researched the three sites that I dubbed the [...]
Here are some highlights from my latest Examiner article, 8 tips for creating a social networking plan for your job search Please feel free to read the article, or share with your friends, and as always, your comments are welcome. I recently gathered my thoughts around the best way to use social networking in a [...]
If you have been using Twitter for a while, you have surely seen many tweets posted every Friday by thousands of Twitter users, prefixed with #Followfriday, #followfriday, or #FF. What is #Followfriday? #Followfriday is quite simply, a way to recommend to all your followers, the people you follow whom you feel share valuable content, e.g., [...]
