December 2011

It’s Called Social Media For A Reason

by TheSourceress on 30/12/2011

One of the things people ask me about most is the fine line between personal and professional on Social Media. It’s usually recruiters, that I meet in a professional setting, who are most concerned about how much to give away on social sites like Twitter. I tell them not to worry, as long as they [...]

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A Star Trek Tour Of Planet Earth!

by TheSourceress on 28/12/2011

Inspired by other people’s creative use of Foursquare, my compulsion to create lists and a passionate love of all things Star Trek, I decided to put together a special foursquare list over the Christmas break. Well, so far I’ve found more than 20 real places here on Planet Earth that might be of interest to Star Trek [...]

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I was inspired to write this post after presenting on “Twitter & Recruiting” at The FIRM’s Social Media event yesterday. We all know that referencing someone’s twitter username with an @ symbol infront creates a link to their profile in your tweet. Did you realise that where you place that @username can have a big [...]

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The Slow Burn of Social Media Success

by TheSourceress on 08/12/2011

The Social Media eureka moment for me came about six months after signing up for Twitter. I had been using Facebook for a couple of years and had tried blogging too. I was fascinated by this new social frontier, though it had not really proved itself valuable to me as a professional yet. Then, a [...]

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Foursquare And The Courage To Explore

by TheSourceress on 06/12/2011

If you follow me on Social Media, then you probably realised that I took an 11 day trip to the USA in October with a friend. I’m not very good at Holidays, I don’t look forward to them and my planning skills are rubbish – so when I get there, I don’t know what I [...]

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