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4 days ago |
LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Recruiting
LinkedIn endorsements have been around a while now. The little box asking whether someone has certain skills has become familiar and there’s been much debate about whether...
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29 days ago |
Facebook, Facebook tips, Humour
You may have noticed the little smiley icons popping up on Facebook recently (Facebook emoticons)…. Well there’s more of them than I thought! Stumbled across a...
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1 day ago |
Human Resources,%20Mobile,%20Recruitment,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting,%20Video
Earlier today I was participating in and live tweeting from the Reconverse discussion on Recruitment Technology. A full write-up will appear on the Reconverse site soon, but I wanted to delve deeper into one particular aspect – that of the video interview. There have been a number of tools coming to market over the last ...
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4 days ago |
LinkedIn,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting
LinkedIn endorsements have been around a while now. The little box asking whether someone has certain skills has become familiar and there’s been much debate about whether they add value. There are also aspects of interpretation which need to be considered. First up though, my thoughts having seen them settle in a little: I think ...
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5 days ago |
Conference,%20Human Resources,%20Recruitment,%20Software Development,%20Video
I was lucky enough to attend the Chinwag Psych event last week – a new event bringing together psychology, neuroscience, web usability, big data and much else besides. I can’t recommend it highly enough and I’ll no doubt be writing up more of my thoughts in the near future. For now though, I wanted to share ...
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11 days ago |
Blogging,%20Community,%20Recruitment,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting
I’ve argued for a long time that unique content is highly valuable. It’s why many companies now run blogs. I’ve also argued on many occasions that the context in which that information is delivered is just as important, if not more so. I believe both of these things have huge value in the digitally connected world ...
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29 days ago |
Facebook,%20Facebook tips,%20Humour
You may have noticed the little smiley icons popping up on Facebook recently (Facebook emoticons)…. Well there’s more of them than I thought! Stumbled across a decent guide and figured it’d be the perfect Friday share! Enjoy!...
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31 days ago |
Blogging,%20Mobile,%20Social Media,%20Software Development
I wrote previously about my move to a self-hosted blog – which means I’ve been tinkering much more with the guts of WordPress, the theme, the plug-ins etc. While solving a few issues, I’ve needed to find out which browser I’m using, which version, whether JavaScript is running, etc. If you run a self-host blog, ...
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32 days ago |
Facebook tips,%20LinkedIn,%20Social Media,%20Start-ups,%20Twitter Tips,%20Uncategorized
Things change in the social world. Connections can be broken, photos deleted, tweets taken down and so on. I blogged recently about Twitter’s new service allowing you to download your entire archive – but it pulls tweets only, and there’s more to your activity than that. I wondered if there was a better way of ...
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33 days ago |
Human Resources,%20Personal Development,%20Recruitment,%20Social Recruiting,%20Start-ups,%20Video
I wrote a post over the weekend looking at the difference between share options in the UK and the US. Judging by the comments, I wasn’t too far off the mark. One comment also included a video link sharing research done in the US and India as to what motivates – and how financial incentives ...
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35 days ago |
Human Resources,%20Investment,%20Recruitment,%20Start-ups
Something I heard last week has really stuck with me. It concerns the motivation and rewarding of staff via share options. The stated view was that this mechanism was far more effective for Talent Acquisition in the US than in the UK – the view coming from the Founder and CEO of a very successful ...
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36 days ago |
Twitter,%20Twitter Tips
Twitter search has always been an interesting beast, with only limited history available. Now, you can at least obtain your own history, right back to your first tweet. In a few short steps, you can request it from Twitter’s site and have a download link emailed to you. Save that ZIP file, you have an HTML ...
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39 days ago |
Recruitment,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting
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40 days ago |
Human Resources,%20Recruitment,%20Social Recruiting
Google Autocomplete has been with us for some time now – (beta launch 2004, full release 2008) so we’re all pretty familiar with the way it works. Recently, someone was fooling around with national stereotypes on there, and it gave me an idea – let’s ask Google about recruiters. I’ve checked the source of the ...
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41 days ago |
Social Recruiting,%20Twitter,%20Twitter Tips
As announced recently, TwitCleaner has now closed down. I’ve been a big fan of this site and blogged a review some years back. I found it invaluable for undertaking quick, occasional maintenance on my Twitterstream from time to time, clearing out the dead wood. Since it’s been offline, I’ve been taking a look for alternatives. ...
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46 days ago |
Blogging,%20Facebook,%20Foursquare,%20Humour,%20Infographic,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting,%20Start-ups
Spotted this cartoon today – essentially social media in historical context. Needs no explanation, just love it! Credit to John Atkinson of Wrong Hands - original post over here!...
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49 days ago |
Mobile,%20Personal,%20Social Media
Been exploring more Android photo apps recently – FWIW, these are my winners so far: Pano (£1.87) – a gorgeous app, very simple to use, perfect for wide-screen panoramic shots. As you work steadily from left to right across your view, each captured frame provides guidance to line the next one up. At the end, a ...
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49 days ago |
Blogging,%20Social Media,%20Start-ups
The more I work with new products and remote teams, the more I’ve needed to share screenshots. I also do screengrabs regularly for blog posts. I started using a new tool last week and it’s so beautifully simple and effective it seems rude not to share! Droplr is a cloud-based service. It installs a small ...
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50 days ago |
Facebook,%20Facebook tips,%20Recruitment,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting
While we might not like to admit it, most of us have a little narcissism in there somewhere – we check out our new followers on Twitter, we install the dodgy apps that promise to show us who checked us out on Facebook, and so on. Those Facebook apps rarely actually work and usually just ...
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51 days ago |
Recruitment,%20Social Recruiting,%20Start-ups
Been keeping an eye on Wolfram Alpha since it first launched a few years back as it promised a different twist on the usual web search tools. It’s billed as a computational knowledge engine, rather than a search engine, and in many ways you can see easily how it delivers on that. For example, you ...
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53 days ago |
Blogging,%20Personal Development,%20Social Media,%20Software Development
So about 4 months ago I asked whether I should go self-hosted on the blog. I listened to a number of respondents, had a number of conversations over beer and generally delayed for a good long time. Well, now it’s done. I’m not going to go through step by step how I made the move ...
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54 days ago |
Conference,%20Personal Development,%20Recruitment,%20Social Media,%20Social Recruiting
Listening to Jason Averbook at HRTechEurope’s event in London last week, I was intrigued some of the themes he pulled out. Whilst I’m conscious of the idea of the digital native, for example, I’d never considered the contrasting position of the digital migrant. I’d always considered myself to be a digital native, but now...
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