Talk about worlds colliding! Twitter and LinkedIn will be integrated. Basically, you can share all or selective tweets or status updates between the two social networks. The two companies are referring to the technology merge like “peanut butter and chocolate”. This new feature is set to come out November 10, 2009. The LinkedIn blog has [...]

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Are you on a bunch of social networking sites? If you are, then odds are you are getting bombarded with information. Eventually it all just becomes noise. How useless is that? I’ve gotten tips from people and have come across tactics that work. It’s simple and easy to implement! Keep a look out for tips [...]

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Are you on a bunch of social networking sites? If you are, then odds are you are getting bombarded with information. Eventually it all just becomes noise. How useless is that? I’ve gotten tips from people and have come across tactics that work. It’s simple and easy to implement! Keep a look out for tips [...]

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Recently, I have encountered a slew of people following me on Twitter who are either not real people or some affiliate marketing automated service. It’s either “look at my pics or videos” or “make money and gain a billion followers”. Don’t fall for either of these tricks! 
So how do you know if your new Twitter [...]

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Over the past few months, I’ve had many requests to teach people how to use social networking sites, Twitter being one of them. Armed with the new label “Twitter Tutor”, I have coached some folks on what Twitter is, why it’s so important. Now more than ever, my training sessions are being geared towards the job [...]

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Job Angels to the Rescue!
Job seekers! Help is on the way!
Job seekers, meet JobAngels.
JobAngels is a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to help the job seeker find his/her next opportunity. All of JobAngels’ services are provided by volunteers, so there is no cost to the job seeker. The main goal is for each member [...]

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Thanks to Twitter, I have the wonderful opportunity to interact every day with one of the most progressive CEOs I have ever met, Tony Hsieh of Zappos. Tony (I think if I called him Mr. Hsieh, he would tell me that’s his father!) kindly agreed to let me interview him on the importance of social [...]

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Have you ever met someone and could not believe this person was actually interacting with you? I experienced that very recently. I had the pleasure of meeting Veronica De La Cruz, anchor for CNN. Talk about a rock star!
Veronica De La Cruz, CNN anchor
How did I meet this amazing person, you ask? Twitter! I was [...]

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Twitter as a training tool? Many learning professionals out there are scratching their heads with one of two questions:

What is Twitter?
How do I use Twitter for training?

Well, let’s start with the first question. Twitter is a social networking platform used to build and keep in contact with your network in real-time. Basically, think [...]

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LinkedIn has recently added some new features to its platform. After some messing around with the functionality, I’ve come across some pretty cool things you can do with your profile. What I like the most is the new Company Buzz provided by Twitter.
So for all you Twitter people out there, you can get your tweets [...]

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