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Social networks in the quest for jobs
News Although job seekers now using social networks to look for work, they would do better through traditional means, according to a recruiter.
Tags: Networking, Web services, Business development/management, IT Professional, Survey, Singapore, social networking, Facebook, Human Resources, job
Use social networks right for job hunts
News Human resource practitioners offer tips for jobseekers to better their chances when using social networking sites to secure employment.
Tags: Recruiting, Executive recruiting, Web 2.0, Twitter, Asia, Jobseeker, Social Media, social networking, Facebook, job
Why your business should use Twitter
Insight perspective Twitter's not just about what you ate for breakfast. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary explains how businesses can take advantage of it and other social networks.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Twitter, British Telecommunications, social networking, Facebook, network, LinkedIn, advisory board
LinkedIn's platform loosens up
News Professional networking site now lets developers access its application programming interface to import LinkedIn features into external sites.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Software engineering/development, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter Inc., network, Web sites, Web 2.0, API
Extending the job hunt to Web world
Blogs Over the past month, I've been scouring resumes of job applicants and have yet to come across one that points me to a so...
Salesforce to offer social networking for companies
News Cloud computing specialist announces Salesforce Chatter service to build social networking services into customers' business operations starting in 2010.
Tags: Web 2.0, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, Internet, Facebook, Social Networking, Marc Benioff, Salesforce Chatter, CEO, network
LinkedIn traffic grows
News With the economy in a tailspin, the business-networking site has seen a sharp jump in traffic in recent months, TechCrunch reports.
Tags: Layoffs, Forecasting, market research company, layoff, ComScore Networks Inc., TechCrunch, job, LinkedIn, Layoffs, Forecasting
UK SMBs come over all a-Twitter
News Small and midsize businesses send around 3 million posts or "tweets" daily, and some 700,000 firms now use the service, new research shows.
Tags: Web sites, Internet advertising, Internet, O2 Plc., Twitter, Supplier, Small And Medium Business, Small Business, social networking, Facebook
Short stay for 3D Networks CEO Avakian
News 3D Networks has lost its chief executive Nick Avakian less than a year after he came on board.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Mobile platforms/communications, Hitachi Ltd., Nortel Networks Corp., EMC Corp., 3D, CEO, LinkedIn, communications company
Mozilla's crowdsourcing mystique
News For-profit companies such as Google and LinkedIn, strain to copy the Firefox Web browser maker's model of relying on volunteer developers.
Tags: Linux, Directory services, Web browsers, Employee communications, Asset/resource/knowledge management, Web services, Analyst reports, Outsourcing, Google Inc., Web Browser
Of Facebookers and the Facebook-nots
Blogs Strange things tend to happen during a recession. A recent report by Economist Intelligence Unit (Global Economic Outloo...
LinkedIn cuts 10 percent of its workforce
News Business-focused social-networking site cuts 36 jobs to focus on revenue-producing areas a month after raising US$22 million in additional funding.
Tags: Web 2.0, Layoffs, Workforce, layoff, Facebook, File-sharing, job, Goldman Sachs & Co., LinkedIn, McGraw-Hill Companies
LinkedIn looking for a suitor, maybe
News There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn.
Tags: Networking, Acquisitions, Plaxo Inc., Digg, social networking, Newsday, co-founder, board meeting, network, LinkedIn
Senior execs turn to social networks for job hunting
News Professional social-networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo are rivaling executive online job boards as a tool for senior executives wanting to progress their careers and find out about new jobs
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Executive recruiting, Plaxo Inc., job board, social networking, Silicon.com, Facebook, career, job
Xobni raises cash from Cisco
News Funds to be used for product improvements, delivery of paid enterprise app.
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Antivirus software, E-mail clients, Cisco Systems Inc., Plug-in, Spokesperson, Company Blog, e-mail, News.com, LinkedIn
