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Sheen-watch demonstrates the power of social media

March 11, 2011 by Ian Hawkings

I’ve been monitoring the ‘progress’ of Charlie Sheen, Hollywood hell-raiser du jour, with growing interest for the last couple of months. It was increasingly clear to me that he was losing his marbles and that surely his lifestyle would catch up with him and everything would end in tears. So far, so Hollywood – seen it a million times.

Of course, in recent weeks, the media attention surrounding his private life has ramped up significantly with tales of his firing from [...]

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MOD civil servants – are they losing out?

January 14, 2011 by blueskypr

I worked for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for three years. It was a real shock to the system when I made the move from the private sector. Not only was it the change in pace, culture and processes that I had to get my head round; it was also the archaic computer systems. It was like going back in time!

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Social media – who and how to get involved?

December 21, 2010 by Steph King

I recently spent a day at one of our clients discussing their use of social media and how to get the whole team involved. And a great day it turned out to be, with an enthusiastic team all positive about the social media being utilised and with some great ideas going forward.

But what happens if your team don’t get involved, don’t see the point or there is conflict over who should be involved? A recent survey featured in PR [...]

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Social media – how do recruiters compare?

June 25, 2010 by blueskypr

Anyone reading this blog is likely to have found it through social media, so I don’t need to explain how much of a buzz there is around social media in recruitment at the moment. However as a PR company I like to think we have a slightly different take on it – although we know how to how to use these tools in the recruitment process, our focus is more on using social media to promote the recruiter’s brand and [...]

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Social media in recruitment workshop

June 1, 2010 by Steph King

I attended the Social Media in Recruitment Workshop last week hosted by Peter Gold and what a day it was. I had agreed to help Peter on the day and turned up at the British Library early to help set up; after the initial problem of not being able to get into the British Library (the gates were all locked up at 8:30) I was responsible for registering the delegates along with Lisa Scales and Claire Dalton and by 9:30 [...]

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social media gurus – tru or false!

February 26, 2010 by Tracey Dunn

I was motivated to write this by reading some tweets from @mattalder – always an insightful tweeter and blogger, a true social media expert and occasionally grumpy old man ( no offence matt – you are probably younger than me!) He has been commenting recently on the amount of ‘social media experts’ there seem to be out there these days – but as he quite rightly says – to quote him word for word : “It’s doing my head in, [...]

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Social media – the darker side?

February 9, 2010 by Tracey Dunn

 

 

I had an e-mail shot the other day from a supplier to the recruitment industry.  They wanted to test the power of viral marketing and were offering an incentive.  All good stuff you might say – great marketing ploy – but then when I read on it actually left quite a nasty taste in my mouth. All you had to do was to mention the supplier on various social networks and you stood a chance of winning a [...]

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Keep an eye on your own PR

January 18, 2010 by blueskypr

I came across a newly launched website today, which I had been following on Twitter. Judgethejob.com allows you to submit anonymous reviews about what it’s like to work at a particular company. Eek scary huh? Well, if you’ve got a lot of disgruntled ex-employees, yes. But let’s be honest, it’s not like they don’t have any avenues to vent their frustrations already is it?

With the rapid expansion of social media and other internet offerings, organisations now have more tools than [...]

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The power of the tweet

December 10, 2009 by blueskypr

Twitter – it’s like Marmite. It seems that you either love it or you hate it; or maybe more accurately you either use and benefit from it or you’re confused / uninterested / sceptical (perhaps all three.) I have certainly come across people from both camps, however the majority of recruitment professionals that I meet and talk to about Twitter give me that ‘look’ as if to say “I’m not convinced by your ‘Gen Y’ ways”. They just [...]

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Twitter – why bother?

November 9, 2009 by blueskypr

A new week, a new rant. (Except it’s my turn this time!) Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera has written another piece which will undoubtedly attract the attention of many businesses and tweeters. It was only a few weeks ago that the HR community was up in arms over his article entitled “Human resources departments – what’s the point?” and I expect that he’ll create controversy once again with a piece that (in a nutshell) says that Twitter is a waste of [...]

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