More and more it has become hard for people to differentiate themselves when applying for a job, school, or any other position. Sometimes the smallest details can make a big difference. I have had some conversations recently with people who have had to go through job applicants to a online job posting and the first [...]
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Domain Discrimination
Posted by Eric Friedman on October 26, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/10/26/domain-discrimination/
Business Networking 101 (why to have your own website)
Image via Wikipedia You hear the term “network” a lot and I thought it would be a good idea to share a recent post I found specifically on this topic: Business Networking 101 I think one of the strongest ideas in the post is to go out and create your social identity and your blog. [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on October 2, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/10/02/business-networking-101-why-to-have-your-own-website/
Interview: Erik Qualman – SES 2008 San Jose Q&A
EriK Qualman is a Search Engine Watch Expert and the Global VP of Online Marketing for EF Education. He will be speaking on the upcoming panel at Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose on the Social Media Track Social Media Marketing: What is it and What is it Good For? More information about this session [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on July 25, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/07/25/interview-erik-qualman/
Web 2.0 World Map
The folks over at AppAppeal.com have put together a very cool web 2.0 world map showing off the logos of web companies to make a world mosaic. AppAppeal looks at and reviews web apps and does comparisons between them. For a quick example see the Bookmarking section. They spell out the details with short and [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on June 24, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/06/24/web-20-world-map/
Thoughts on Plurk
I can now be found on another micro blogging platform called Plurkhere is my Plurk page. I found out about Plurk this morning via Inquisitr and it has an interesting format. I spent some time reading reactions to the Plurk service and feel basically the same way – except I am looking for a centralized [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on June 2, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/06/02/thoughts-on-plurk/
Watch the widget trends
Posted in Marketing.fm, Social Media
In my recent article about being bullish on widgets I was asked a lot about supporting data. The article was primarily my own thoughts, but nonetheless people always want more stats. Read Write Web has a great article about watching widget stats for US politics. They do caution that this is no indication of an [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on June 2, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/06/02/watch-the-widget-trends/
Comcast to Acquire Plaxo
It was announced today that Plaxo will be acquired by Comcast – or at least they have entered into an agreement for this to happen. An important piece of the announcement that grabbed my attention: Plaxo and Comcast have been working together for the past year on a number of initiatives. Plaxo is providing the [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on May 20, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/05/20/comcast-to-acquire-plaxo/
Spring Social Media Spring Cleaning
Posted in Marketing.fm, Social Media
Tagged Social Media, Social Media Marketing
Its time to clean out your social media profiles. A lot of people have been buzzing about what they are doing with their profiles such as Hugh MacLeod deleting his twitter account, and Andrew Baron putting his Twitter account up for sale (as written about by Chris Brogan). Which you can see the ebay auction [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on April 14, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/04/14/spring-social-media-spring-cleaning/
LinkedIn Now with Linked Companies
Posted in Social Networking, Technology
LinkedIn is now making a new move to allow companies to have their own LinkedIn Company pages. LinkedIn uses this knowledge to display recent hires, related companies, recent promotions, top locations for employees, and so-called “headliners” (people who get lots of profile views and mentions in the press). The data has also been used for [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 21, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/03/21/linkedin-now-with-linked-companies/
Twitter functions we wish existed
Posted in Marketing.fm, Social Networking
I was recently browsing Twitter and began thinking about the instant nature of everyone posting. As I have said before there are many conversations happening live on Twitter that may never get blogged. This got me started on this blog post about features that I wish existed. It is a culmination of my colleagues requests, [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 17, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/03/17/twitter-functions-we-wish-existed/
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