Contact & Connect
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If you’d rather stalk me for a while first then you may or may not find this interesting…
Social Networking Policy:
Below I set out how I use networking websites so that no-one is offended if I don’t friend, connect to or follow them.
Twitter:
I regard Twitter as a communication free for all. I can listen to whoever I like, talk to whoever I like and broadcast to anyone that will listen. Feel free to follow me and I will follow back if I find you interesting.
Defining interesting:
- You live locally to me i.e. you live along the general M4 corridor area of the UK
- You are a recruiter or internet researcher
- You work in Social Media or are passionate about it
- You share one of my passions, like cheese eating, knitting, Star Trek watching or tea drinking
- You are funny or otherwise interesting
You may find that I still don’t follow you back. If I look at your profile and you are simply broadcasting your thoughts or blog posts without engaging in conversation, I am unlikely to follow you. If you feel I have missed you (I’m only human after all) feel free to send me a @reply and I’ll follow you.
Follow: @TheSourceress
LinkedIn:
Stop by LinkedIn to find out more about me.
But…
Generally, I don’t like to connect to people that I haven’t met in person or at least had conversations with over the ‘phone, IM or Twitter. So if you are sending me an invite, make sure you send me a message telling me why you want to connect. This message needs to better than “We are both members of ‘insert group name here’.”
I also have profiles on Xing and Naymz, where the same rules apply as for LinkedIn
Facebook:
I generally like to have laid eyes on people that I ‘friend’ on Facebook and be invested in my relationship with that person. If we haven’t met in person I am unlikely to accept you as a friend on Facebook.
I usually conduct a little thought experiment – Would I hug this person if I saw them in the street? If the answer is yes, you’ll probably get friended.
Foursquare:
I have decided to add this location based service to my policy as I am using it more and more. I also get lots of friend requests from people that I have never met or interacted with before.
My general rule of thumb is that if I’ve met you more than once before and would like to meet up for a coffee if we were in the same neighbourhood, I’ll accept your foursquare friend request. There are one or two people that I would really like to meet, but haven’t yet, that I have accepted, but they are a rarity.
Email:
If you have any questions about what I do, feel free to get in touch by email (form at the top of this page) and start a conversation.
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This is such a good idea! Very useful to have a written statement that you can refer people to or that they can review for themselves before connecting with you via any particular network.
Great Blog!
I feel guilty – mine is woefully neglected. I get inspiration from my weekly vegetable box delivery. I can write about recipes for hours…sometimes I even make them! My blog/art gallery all the rest will continue to be sadly abandoned until my Year 3 workload eases up a bit. Trouble is…some of the work is really interesting so maybe I should blog about that! I’m really bad at timetabling my inspiration…I tend to just go with the flow.
Hi Katharine,
Just a wee note to say how enthused I was after yesterday’s sourceology track with yourself and Geoff. I thought I was a good web-stalker, but you guys make me look mere mortal. My mind is literally whirling!
Instead of trying to regurgitate X-Ray’s, Peel-back’s and the dark arts of Boolean to the girls and boys I work with, I’m trying to persuade my company to part with some cash and hire you for a seminar (if you’re keen that is). Watch this space (?)
Living not too far away from Reading, I’m pretty keen to get involved in the ‘geek-sheik’ scene a little more, so feel free to spam (hee hee) me with upcoming event’s
Thanks,
Dougie
I was passed your name by a colleague who says you help with lead generation.
Is that correct?
Alan
Alan,
Thanks for your comment. I’ve sent you an email.
Katharine
I’d like to see more people reveal how they use the various social media channels. I remain hard to convince that the likes of facebook and twitter are good for recruitment when compared to the job boards or good old fashioned press, but I often get shouted down for having that belief. Yet, a straw poll of friends and business associates suggests that their views are very similar to the ones above and mine, which are – Twitter for business generation/networking and people generally of interest, Linkedin; an online CV which never results in anything more than a connect with someone I used to work with way back when or currently deal with and Facebook, which I struggle to give the time of day to as I find it by and large tediously inane. I am connected to people I know in real life on there but hardly use it. If I want to know how they are/what they doing I’d rather pick up the phone.
So there you have it. As I say, would be good to get some kind of survey done for people’s motivation/raison d’etre for all these social channels. I think the results might surprise even the most ardent advocate of social recruiting.
Nice work. I think that many people are still starting out with social media tools and as such don’t have a handle on general etiquette – it’s like when people forwarded on jokes and virus hoaxes and replied to all in shouty capitals when they first used email. It’s great to have a guide for those people. For me, it’s a handy remover of guilt. Should I feel bad about not adding you to LinkedIn? (checks personal statement) (feels justified and a little smug and clicks ‘ignore’).
Like.
HI Katharine, I’m Phoebe from China. As researcher in recruitment company, I found this social media can be a new way of recruitment in China as well. But we don’t have powerful enough channels or just simply know nothing about using for me.
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