Just when you thought it was safe to have a separate work/life existence, they find yet another way to keep you connected to the world!!! But don’t worry, at least this one is fun! What am I talking about? I’m talking about micro-blogging!
Micro-blogging can give your personal network constant updates regarding your status. These can be sent from anywhere in the world. The great thing about micro-blogging is that you probably use one of these tools already. Whether it’s Twitter, FriendFeed, your Facebook status, your cell phone’s SMS texts, or your Gtalk status. These are just a few examples, but the more important thing to think about is how you can connect these.
Some of these sites like Twitter, can receive text message updates from your phone. Are you running late and need to update your status message for your network to see? Send a text message from your phone to Twitter and it will automatically update it.
Other sites like FriendFeed allow you to share videos, photos, links, bookmarks, blogs, books, news, and status between your network. The major benefit to sites like these is the fact that you can set them up to share information, and then you only have worry about updating one website status! To illustrate this concept, I have enlisted the help from a friend of mine named Plugged-in Pete.
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Now how can this be used in the world of recruiting? First of all, you can search status messages within a network or with some sites you can go beyond your network. This is still a relatively new medium, so there aren’t a lot of hard-lined rules yet. I also have another article that details how to search with Twitter.
Now, since some of these sites tie into SMS text applications, they must follow the 155 character limit for SMS text. Now how can you send super-long URL’s if you only get 155 characters for your message? The answer is with tinyurl’s. These 2 sites: tinyurl.com and snipurl.com allow you to take a long URL and save it as a very short URL. Now you can post that super-important YouTube Video or news article and not have to worry about space.
Stay tuned for future episodes of Plugged-in Pete and Recruiting Today.
- Mark
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Aug 05
by: Mark Tortorici
2 Responses to “What’s so BIG about micro-blogging?”
Love the article and like how you have explained how Twitter works. I’m still questioning how it can be used in the world of recruiting. What value would a recruiter gain from posting a status message to a site like twitter? Also, you mentioned there are not “hard-lined” rules but is it OK for recruiters to ask their candidates if they can follow them?
Adam wrote on August 17th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Nice, I’m looking forward to next week so I can learn a little more from Plugged-in Pete…
Ismael wrote on August 21st, 2008 at 10:07 am