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Search, integration, real time engagement & collaboration, viral marketing, location based services – Google Buzz is a serious tool when it comes to the recruitment marketing & sourcing mix…

“Cloud computing” is a term which is being used more and more as it has become more of a reality in our every day lives. This is a term which we use a lot on this site, and we decided to dedicate a post to help all understand its meaning and importance with regards to the evolution of the web.

Post 2: Slide & video content from The Social Recruiting Panel with Kelly Dingee, Ben Gotkin from RSM McGladrey, Kerry Noone from Sodexo & Heather Tinguely from Microsoft.

Great podcast from legaltalknetwork with co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell who look at this important new phenomenon and suggest practical ways that you can find and manage your online reputation, while avoiding the most common pitfalls.

We thought it was a good time to cover the ever important topic of “Online reputation management” for the next few posts. Linking this back to your employer brand is an important factor to bear in mind.

The traditional job board business model is outdated, making it unable to compete with the innovation and cost savings of search engines and social media. Employers that are exclusively focusing on job boards for recruitment will come up short in the war for talent as generalised job boards are losing their effectiveness.

We recently had the privilege of attending the Net Prophet inaugural conference held at the Old Mutual Business School in Pinelands, Cape Town.

“The conference, turned out to be a resounding success with over 400 delegates in attendance. The day proved to be a profound knowledge-sharing experience with industry experts, the Net Prophets, imparting their experience, insights and web wisdom to a riveted audience of business and internet technology stakeholders from a variety of spheres. Cape Town has been touted as Africa’s Silicon Valley and this was proved by the enormous stir of support for the conference by the city’s web community.

Facebook’s targeted advert functionality provide a means of displaying specific adverts to highly targeted segments of the social network.
Your ads will then display on the pages of members who meet your targeting criteria, and if clicked will then incur you a cost which you have set when you setup the advert.

Key benefits
- Reach over 175,000,000 [...]

Great article from Ayelet Noff on recruitingblogs.com
“Barack Obama used social media to get himself into the White House and thousands of companies are using social media to create brand awareness and an online buzz. However, social media can also be used for many other purposes as well. If you work in Human Resources, you may [...]

So you should now understand what web 2.0 means, and how the web has evolved to where it is today…internet professionals are now referring to web 3.0, but that’s for another day, we wont confuse you at this time
With the advent of web 2.0, recruiting professionals started talking more and more about [...]