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Daily Wrap: Facebook Profile Suggests Future Job Performance and more
Feb 21st
A new study finds it’s possible to judge your potential job performance using your Facebook profile. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap.
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What Facebook Says About Your Potential Job Performance
How you appear on Facebook matters more and more each day. A new study suggests it may be possible to gauge a potential hire’s potential performance by checking out their Facebook page.
From the comments:
Helder José – “users who socialized were more likely to be extroverted and friendly.”
Well, I guess that bias rules out as prospective employees people such as Larry Page and many of today’s business leaders who happen to be introverts and prefer to work in solitude and spend time maturing their ideas instead of drinking and socializing. Steve Jobs was not that friendly either, I guess I can also safely rule out anyone whose personality resembles that of Steve Jobs.
I guess Facebook is not as useful as you suggest. It might be useful to find the most profitable rat racers but for outstanding top people: not so much. I can hardly imagine top people investing much time on Facebook.
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A Year Later, the BlackBerry PlayBook is Finally Fully Baked
Better late than never, right? Research In Motion has released the next iteration of its BlackBerry PlayBook OS that (finally) brings some core functions to the tablet that were missing when the slate was released in April 2010. That includes a dedicated email client with a unified inbox, calendar and contact apps, improved document editing and an updated BlackBerry Bridge. It will also run select Android apps. (more)
What People Hate About Their iPads and Kindle Fires
People love their tablets. The devices have only been a hot consumer gadget for about three years, but already they’ve changed so much about how people read, browse the Web, watch video and get work done. Apple still leads the pack, having sold more than 15 million iPads in the last quarter alone, but Android-based tablets like Amazon’s Kindle Fire are selling like crazy as well. (more)
Bottlenose 2.0 Is a 6th Sense for the Social Web
I just received surprise news that Bottlenose hit version 2.0. It’s an intelligent social dashboard, but don’t think “another social dashboard.” Here’s the breakdown: If you think in customers, use Nimble. If you think in interpersonal connections, use Engag.io. But if you want a social dashboard for ideas, that’s what Bottlenose is for. (more)
The App Store Is A Republic
It comes down to this fundamental question: How much responsibility do you want for the workings of your device? The religious divide between iOS and Android hinges on this point. There are nerds – and I always use the term affectionately – whose nerdliness depends upon that responsibility. Without it, they feel no control over their computer. There is no doubt that Android places more of that responsibility on the user than iOS does. (more)
Apache 2.4 Sets Sights on Cloud
Apache 2.4 is going to take a lot of pain out of managing Web servers, says Jim Jagielski, president of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The 2.4 release, which has been about six years in the making, brings a host of performance improvements, reduced memory usage, and a number of features that make the Apache HTTP Server more suited for cloud environments. (more)
Storify, Loving You Isn’t Easy: Here’s Why
Storify has been teasing an update, seemingly associated with advanced search features, and like most Storify users, I can not wait to see it. While the bulk of the product is fabulous, there are a few constant issues with the service that drive me to distraction. (more)
Options Evolving for Mobile HTML5 Developers to Get Paid
The groundwork for a robust mobile Web app ecosystem was laid in 2011. The HTML5 spec evolved and major players began taking note that, hey, there might be some potential with the mobile Web … if only it could be monetized. Mobile developers are certainly testing out HTML5 apps and where the developers go, the tools providers will follow. (more)
Google Flight Search Goes Mobile
Last year, Google added a new category of in-house search results for flights to Google.com on the desktop. They’re now available on mobile as well. It will take you all the way to checkout, but you can’t buy tickets directly through Google. Yet. (more)
China Can Try, But It Can’t Censor Its Social Web
What do Eric Schmidt, Mark Zukerberg and the Chinese government have in common? They’ve all made failed attempts to remove anonymity from the social web. For different reasons. (more)
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How To Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile
Feb 2nd
I like using Twitter. I tolerate Facebook because I have to. And I’m on Google+ because everyone says I should be.
So that has left little time to give love to my profile on LinkedIn, which is, depending on how you look at it, either the biggest niche social network or the smallest of the big, all-encompassing social networks. Some people will tell you that sooner or later, all of our networking, social and professional, will be centrally located on Facebook. Others will insist that you need a LinkedIn profile, if only to protect the eyes of potential employers from falling on photos of you wearing an ugly shirt and a stupid grin at last year’s company cookout.
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I decided to err on the side of LinkedIn being here for the long run, and I decided it was time to give my LinkedIn profile a makeover.
I know the basics we’ve all heard – have a photo, make sure its a professional photo, make sure your profile is 100% complete and don’t link Twitter or Facebook to automatically update your LinkedIn status. But I still wasn’t seeing the results that had other people swearing by LinkedIn. I reached out to the career coaches, social media experts and hiring managers for the best strategies for making LinkedIn work.
Avoid Back-Scratch Recommendations
One of the LinkedIn features that wouldn’t work on Facebook is the Recommendation, where clients, past bosses, and former and current co-workers can give you a mini-reference letter. With a few keystrokes they can give you a recommendation that is often more effective than the old photo-copied reference letters we used to keep in file drawers.
But here’s the catch: potential employers can not only see who has written references for you, but can see who you have written references for. It doesn’t look good to hiring managers when the only references you have are from people you have written references for. In small industries, where people may know one another, that problem can be compounded when you write a recommendation saying someone is great, when everyone in the industry knows that person is anything but.
“You want to limit how many recommendations you write,” said Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs and a professor at Columbia University’s Journalism School and organizer of last week’s Social Media Weekend in New York. “You probably don’t want to write too many more than 10, depending on what industry you’re in.”
Connect
LinkedIn makes you go through a series of extra steps when you try to connect with someone. You have to demonstrate how you’re connected, which helps cut down on potential spammers. Some career experts say this is a good thing, as, unlike Twitter, where you try to collect as many followers as possible, you should limit your connections to people you have worked with.
Sreenivasan thinks differently and said once people get through those verification hoops, he accepts their requests.
“If anyone in this room asks to connect on LinkedIn, I’ll accept,” he said to a lecture hall full of several hundred people at Social Media Weekend on Sunday. “Of course I would! You’re all here, so it’s like you’re customers.”
Use Keywords
LinkedIn has a feature still in beta that lets you search job-specific keywords (for example, writing, reporting, editing in my case). It will also show you if those keywords are being searched more or less on LinkedIn, and offer some suggestions for additional keywords to consider adding to your profile based on your search.
“Search engine marketing is very passive, but proactive participation on LinkedIn can be very helpful in this type of situation, where targeting is very important, and where displaying your expertise can be more productive in gaining qualified leads than blatant advertising,” said Philippa Gamse, author of 42 Rules for a Web Presence That Wins. “Yes, it takes some focused time, but can really pay off.”
On Wednesday, while killing time waiting for Facebook to announce its IPO, I added some keywords to my LinkedIn profile. Within 24 hours of adding the keywords “public speaking” to my profile, someone had emailed asking me to speak at a conference about using social media in college classrooms.
LinkedIn Is Not Your Resume
One of the biggest mistakes people make is simply cutting-and-pasting their resume into LinkedIn profile fields, according to Kristina Jaramillo, who runs the Website Get Linked In Help. It’s a common mistake, which means people who do that are stuck in the crowd.
“The majority of profiles that read like resumes are not engaging and are not prospect or customer focused. Most business professionals’ headlines just state their position,” Jaramillo said. “Their summaries are written in third person and they do not explain how they can help and the results they achieve for clients.”
Explore Apps
Kelly A Lux, a social media strategist at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, said LinkedIn’s iPhone app “is one of the best mobile social app user-experiences you will find.”
Lux also likes the Cardmunch app for scanning business cards and automatically connecting with people you meet in real-life networking on LinkedIn, as well as the Job Change Notifier, which will shoot you an email everytime someone you’re connected to lands a new position.
But that’s just the start. Lux advises people to add custom Web site apps to their LinkedIn profile, like the Amazon’s Reading List app to show what they’re reading and TripIt, which shows where you are traveling.
TripIt is “great if you want to meet up with connections in cities you’re visiting,” she said.
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Why You Should Smile in Your Facebook Profile Photo
Jan 27th
If you’re not smiling in your Facebook photo, your life is probably going to suck in four years time.
Reseachers J. Patrick Seder and Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville discovered that smile intensity from a single Facebook profile photo in the first semester of college predicted self-reported life satisfaction three and a half years later, at the time of college graduation.
This type of study isn’t actually unique to Facebook, however. A 2011 study by Harker and Keltner showed that female students smiling in their college graduation yearbook photos from 1958 and 1960 were reportedly happier 30 years later. A similar study by Abel and Kruger (2010) found that professional baseball players who smiled more intensely in archival photos lived seven years longer than those who didn’t smile much.
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Why does intensity of smiling in a photo predict well-being later in life? Smile intensity is associated with life satisfaction. But what about extroversion? This is another, third variable that the researchers considered.
The researchers also considered that people who smile more in their public Facebook photos tend to have better social relationships. Past research shows that people who smile in photos are usually warm and friendly, and they tend to have an easier time in social relationships. As such, smiling intensity in photos correlates with a higher life satisfaction through positive social relationships.
Does extroversion play into the longitudinal association between smile intensity and life satisfaction? Smile intensity did not significantly correlate with self-reported extroversion. The researchers did not find evidence for extroversion-as-third-variable account of life satisfaction. They did find that first-semester social relationships satisfaction was an important link between smile intensity and future self-reported life satisfaction.
Interestingly, they did not find evidence that extroversion was responsible for association between smile intensity in photos and future life satisfaction. So just because someone is extroverted on Facebook or in life doesn’t mean they’re satisfied – it just means that they’re extroverted.
One caveat to the study: Researchers worked with students who were college freshmen in the fall 2005, and used Facebook when it became available to most colleges. In September 2006, Facebook became available outside of the academy. The first study worked with 92 participants (35 male), which is a rather small sample size. All Study 1 participants were early adopters of Facebook.
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Twitter Enhanced Profile Pages: Brands Share Wins & Tips
Jan 17th
Companies may have just once chance to convert a Twitter brand page visitor to a follower and need to make best use of the new page features, according to a recently released eye tracking study. Brand page features include a large header banner an…
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Profile: Seo Jung-jin has sights on ‘biosimilar’ market – Financial Times
Dec 18th
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Profile: Seo Jung-jin has sights on 'biosimilar' market
Financial Times By Song Jung-a Seo Jung-jin, the chief executive of Celltrion, South Korea's leading biopharmaceutical company, has made a strong career comeback. He lost his job in 1999 as a high-flying executive at the now-defunct Daewoo Motor when the Asian … |
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How to Find Out Who Looks at Your Facebook Profile
Oct 25th
If you’re a human being (read: not spambot) and you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably wondered who looks at your profile. Facebook’s voyeur-identifying techniques are stealth, allowing you to be a voyeur without really feeling like a stalker. Here are some of the ways you can bypass Facebook’s secret algorithmic ways and find out who’s looking at you – and who you’re looking at.
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The most obvious yet oft-overlooked is the friends list on the left-rail of your Facebook profile page. According to the Facebook Help Center, this section “might include friends who you interact with the most in Wall posts, comments and mutually attended events. However, Facebook does not select friends to show based on whose profiles you choose to view or who you interact with over messages and chat.”
Science20.com has a different hypothesis, suggesting that the people who show up on the left-rail are the ones who look at you the most over a period of time. Go to your profile and refresh it multiple times, and see for yourself. Another technique suggested by the article for discovering who views you the most is this: Go to the search bar at the top of Facebook.
Type in the first letter of each character in the alphabet. The first name that pops up is either the last person you looked at, or the last person who looked at you.
Facebook also gives you friend suggestions; those are people who may have been looking at your profile.
Friendster Failed Because It Turned Online Gazing Into Stalking
On Facebook, the term “stalker” is harder to peg. On Friendster, it was easy thanks to the “Who’s Viewed You” feature, jokingly referred to as “Who’s Watching Me.” The feature launched out of nowhere on September 30, 2005, and showed people who had been viewing them – and how many times their profile had been viewed since the beginning of that month.
In 2009, Friendster tried to relaunch. It didn’t work out too well.
Users of Facebook, on the other hand, have accepted frictionless sharing, the varied browsing tools and a news feed that keeps delivering fresh content it thinks you want to see.
If these workarounds aren’t doing it for you, and you’re really serious about finding out who looks at your profile, check out this bookmarklet and the WhoIsLive add-on.
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Magazine Discovery App Zite Releases Multiple Profile Option for Sharing iPads
Oct 21st
Personalized iPad magazine discovery app Zite introduced a new update, humorously named Sybil, which allows users to switch between multiple profiles (or personalities, if you’d prefer). Aside from satisfying your alter-ego, it’s now easier to share an iPad with other people, since they’ll be able to create their very own profiles. This update arrived after Zite surveyed 335 iPad users, discovering that 30% shared their device with one or more people.
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To use the new Sybil feature, go to the first page of Top Stories, and jump over to the Profile bar in the upper-left hand corner called “Temporary.”
Our writer Dan Rowinski was curious about how Zite instituted the new feature without submitting an update through the Apple Store. Normally, most updates need to go through Apple as developers resubmit an apps binary for approval. Zite’s CTO Mike Klaas responded:
“A portion of our UI is dynamically-generated on our servers (like the article/magazine content), so that gives us a certain amount of flexibility in deploying features. For big updates, we still rely on the app store submission.”
Despite being acquired by major media company CNN this past August, Zite is continuing to innovate and maintain their own brand. With the new Sybil update, Zite will be able to do what it does best through multiple profiles.
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Website InternetMarketingCompany.biz Launches its Facebook Profile – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Sep 8th
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Website InternetMarketingCompany.biz Launches its Facebook Profile
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) InternetMarketingCompany.biz is an experienced leader in search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing, and internet marketing services. "We are excited to see InternetMarketingCompany.biz on Facebook," said Jason Schwartz, … |
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