Social Media and Social Good

TrickedIn: Campaign to Raise Public Awareness of Sex Trafficking LinkedIn is a great platform to provide updates about one’s career and to connect with other professionals. Interns Alex Dickinson, Vera Chung, Holly Attrill and Andries Vaisman at BBH prove that it can be a great platform to use for advocacy too. Through a campaign called TrickedIn and based on a series of interviews with several illegal sex workers, the team created a composite…

Recently, Linkedin stopped allowing users to link their Twitter feed to appear on their profile page. While there hasn’t seemed to be too much of a backlash yet, there are also important lessons that can be taken from the split. Social media has become a big integration into our lives, but often the line is blurred between what’s professional, what’s strictly private, and if the two can co-exist. The truth…

LinkedIn Still Ranks as the Top Social Networking Site for Recruiting In a recent annual Jobvite 2012 Social Recruiting Survey, it indicates that the social recruiting trend is on the rise as recruiters continue to retain higher quality candidates through social networks. 92% use or plan to use social recruiting 43% of recruiters who use social recruiting saw an increase in candidate quality 73% have successfully hired a candidate through social…

How to Find Social Media Jobs in Less Than 5 Minutes Social networking sites do not only help people to keep in touch but also help job hunting much easier. If you have the right skills and know how to network with the right people, you will be able to land your dream job in 5 minutes, or less. Okay, maybe not entirely land a job right away but be…

LinkedIn Updates: Targeted Status Updates and Follower Insights Guess LinkedIn isn’t all too lame, after all. eConsultancy reported that: LinkedIn announced two new additions to its offering this morning: LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates product and a new follower insight page to help track not only who is following you but who and how your company messages are being shared.   The new Targeted Status Updates feature allows you to have more…