TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based job search engine, has teamed up with TweetDeck to offer a desktop client dubbed JobDeck, as reported by Clickz earlier this morning. The application indexes tweets related to recruitment from across the Twittersphere, in real-time, based on TwitJobSearch's algorithm.
With unemployment at 10 percent nationwide, getting a new job is difficult. It often comes down to who you know. That's where social networking sites like Twitter come in.
Charles Martin says it takes him only eight seconds to apply for a job after learning about it on TweetMyJobs.com, one of his favorite job search engines, including Gettele Communications Jobs, Its My Job, and Tech Jobs.
The basic premise as far as this website is concerned is turning Twitter into a sort of enormous classifieds board where people can let others know about things that they are buying, selling and even giving away.
A project that's been available to the public for just two months, TweetMart allows users to see items for sale and jobs in a Twitter-friendly format. Its co-founders "felt there needed to be a drop dead simple way to integrate a classifieds site with Twitter," according to the site.
Oodle continues to chip away at Craigslist’s domination of the online classifieds market by partnering with much larger sites like AOL and powering their listings—but with a new Twitter integration, the startup is making the battle about more than just scale—it’s trying to “make classifieds more social,” according to CEO Craig Donato. The company plans to start feeding a stream of listings to its Twitter account, complete with searchable keywords and hashtags; Donato said he expects the stream to average at least 10,000 tweets per day—which the company cleared with Twitter in advance.
Most of the activity in the non-profit media space recently has been on the news-gathering side. Now comes something on the business side. The MinnPost, the non-profit news site focused on the Twin Cities, has launched a new ad format that combines aspects of print classifieds with Twitter, Joel Kramer, the digital pub’s editor and CEO, tells NiemanLab. Called Real-Time Ads, the format is a kind of advertising-as-content concept, Kramer explains further on MinnPost.
Craigslist has become the standard for community classifieds; it’s more efficient reaching a local audience than any other local advertising media, and it’s free.
PRLog (Press Release) – Social media networking is proving real successful in bringing together on basis of interest groups and activities. This can prove helpful in so many ways for individuals as well as business point of view. In this era of social media, twitter is known as one of the simplest tools that can help you improve your business.
The online media world today is mostly divided between those who "get" Twitter and those who don't. These groups are further subdivided between those who think it has legs and those who don't.
While some of my colleagues fall in the latter bucket, I'm somewhere in between when it comes to local search. Whether or not you personally use Twitter, or think the "statusphere" is a flowing river of dribble (there is some truth to that), Twitter Search is where the potential lies.
Yes, you read that right. Twitter is now being used as a way to buy, sell, and job hunt online. To get my head around this new, 140 character way of posting classifieds, I spoke to people at Tweba, iList Micro, and the smaller startup Twitmart.
We've all heard the saying, "It's not what you know, it's who you know." When it comes to getting a job, networking is a critical skill. Fortunately, these days, job-seekers have more tools than ever to do just that.
JobAngels, a grassroots online group, doesn't even have its own URL yet, but it has gathered thousands of followers and found employment for hundreds.
If you're among the millions of people looking for work, there's one more social networking site you may have to join: Twitter. If the thought of signing on to yet another online network makes you shudder, consider Kyle Flahety's story.
The rumor mill is in full gear today over speculation that Google may acquire Twitter. The news comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim talks between Google and Twitter are in the late stages, according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington.
iList, the classifieds site for instantly broadcasting your listing to your friends across your favorite social sites, has just made itself incredibly useful to Twitter users who hate to go anywhere else with iList Micro.
Monday, January 25, 2010
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