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Forget hard-copy resumes and cover letters. Forget job search sites. Check out how a guy named Hal Thomas landed a sweet new marketing job via Twitter. Just one more reason – if you needed one — to get on the social media bandwagon.

Twitter has apparently been down since about 04:53:18 US Eastern Time, and it’s amazing how riled people can get about a FREE service being down. Check out the how frantic some of these guys are getting: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/is_twitter_down-mf59. Some people are calling their service providers to make sure that Twitter hasn’t been inadvertently blocked! Hey, I [...]

As I was writing my last blog about Twitter etiquette, a question came up: What is the etiquette on following people? Should you follow everyone who follows you, or not? I went on a quest to find out what the best practice regarding Followers vs. Following on Twitter. The answers, it seems, are largely unclear, [...]

If you read my previous post, you know what’s in store for you now. As promised, I’ve put together a general list of guidelines for Twittering. These dos and don’ts are by no means comprehensive and, depending on who you talk to, all of these rules were made to be broken by braver Twitterers. Photo [...]

So, we all know that social media is here to stay. Chances are, your company has a blog, a LinkedIn profile, and at least one employee whose day-to-day responsibilities include tweeting. It wasn’t long ago that companies that leveraged Twitter and the like were viewed as cutting-edge. But today, social media marketing is a given. [...]