Highlight Updates, BillPin, Social Media Showdown, & Emily Giffin: the Social 6 for 2/21/13
I don't know how I was able to share all of yesterday's links given my running around for Social Media Week, but you all sure delivered on the clicking & sharing front, so I'm glad I was able to help. You all were particularly interested in Business Insider's look at the skills that are most lucrative to possess in today's job market, but we had other gems as well: Highlight's upgrades, my recap of Wednesday's Social Media Showdown event, and author Emily Giffin's Pay it Forward program. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Amid Online Furor, Sheriff Responds to Death of Man With Down Syndrome New York Times (blog)
#5: Highlight unveils location-focused photo sharing tool and event feature with an eye for spontaneity (The Next Web)
#4: Social Media for Social Good: Emily Giffin's Pay It Forward Program (Huffington Post)
#3: BillPin app can help friends split bills with ease (The Next Web)
#2 :Recap: Econsultancy's Social Media Showdown (Going Social)
#1: 30 Top Tech Skills That Will Net You $100K+ (Business Insider)
Fox News Gaffes, Basecamp, Rental Boyfriends, & Racial Bias in Google Ads? The Social 6, Weekend Recap
Hope you all enjoyed this past weekend! If you were off gallivanting, you may have missed some of the top stories I shared and subsequently, were re-shared/clicked on by my social audience. This weekend we had great news & views including Basecamp's official iOS debut after years and years, some troubling data about Google ads, Twitter's effectiveness as a job search guide, and more. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Upcoming tech & media events you should attend [Discounts] (The Next Web)
#5: Single This Valentine's Day? Get a Rental Boyfriend (Jezebel)
#4: Basecamp Finally Launches An “Official” iOS App (TechCrunch)
#3: Fox News Accidentally Uses Photo of Gay Couple To Illustrate Traditional Gender Roles (Jezebel)
#2: How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource (Mashable)
#1: Racial Bias in Google Ads? (Ecommerce Times)
Gamification, Jobhunting, iPad Mini, and. . . Cats? The Social 6 News Roundup for 10/11/12
I hope you guys were doing your jobs yesterday, as opposed to scouring Twitter, Google+, and the like for social media-news. Not to fret if you missed anything, since I have the 6 links that were most shared, liked, and clicked on within my social circles yesterday. Never saw a social media list featuring forum statistics, tablet news, gamification, and...cats? Well, now you have. Here's today's Social 6 news roundup:
These 10 Cats Hate Toasters, Popcorn and Treadmills (Mashable)
Why Tracking Social Media Sales is so Difficult! (Business 2 Community)
Forums Outperform Blogs In Social Media Use (Social Media Explorer)
Job Seekers Choose Facebook Over LinkedIn, Twitter [STUDY] (Mashable)
Talk of the Day -- iPad mini to debut next week? (Focus Taiwan)
The 'Gamification' of CRM Finally Comes to Salesforce--But is it Enough? (Midsize Insider)
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- Contacting the featured events, companies, people, etc. featured in our blog articles for link backs
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- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word
- Excellent writing/verbal communications skills
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