Katharine Robinson is TheSourceress
When I got my first job with a recruitment company I remember it being pointed out that our business was a lot harder than many others because we were selling a product that had emotions, a mind of its own and could get up and walk away at the drop of a hat. Just like [...]
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UK4Business were brought to my attention by my Dad. He had received an email offering ‘LinkedIn for Business’ training to his company and had decided to consider the idea for his sales people. Knowing that I use LinkedIn as part of my job and regularly train recruiters to use it, he wanted to ask me [...]
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As if an auto DM when you follow someone on Twitter was not irritating enough, some people use TrueTwit Validation. This isn’t a new phenomenon – the service has been irritating me and other Twitter users for some time. What really annoys me is that TrueTwit is a robot for checking whether or not I’m a [...]
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You cannot know me and not be aware that I love Percy Pig sweets from Marks and Spencer. I tweet about them. I eat them in bed, on the bus and at the office. I have Percy on my key-ring and in my Christmas stocking. I know that a lot of people feel the same [...]
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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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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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