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• Meet Social8er — a Social CV service for the recruitment industry

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  By Ronan Steyn: Staff Reporter
  Posted 4 April, 2013
  

  At first glance you probably wouldn't think that there is money to be made off the unemployed. After all, no jobs means no money, right? For the most part perhaps, but the US$400 billion recruitment industry might beg to differ. Technology has the ability to eat into industry revenues and professional social network LinkedIn stands the best chance to take a bite out of the recruitment market. But for the most part, the industry is alive and well. With that ...

• Crowdfunding: It’s more than just having an idea and collecting the money

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  By Jeremy Daniel
  Posted 4 June, 2012
  

  Thousands of great ideas flounder at the point where they need to become reality; when great thinkers and idea generators turn to the age-old problem of raising funds to kickstart their new ventures….too often they fail and give up. Getting investment is a whole different ball game to developing products and services. So when the idea of crowdfunding first emerged, (crowdsourced fund-raising) it was embraced by entrepreneurs like sweet words of love from Juliet to her Romeo. Surely this was ...

• Here comes the flood: VC firms funding corporate media push into social media

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  By Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley
  Posted 19 August, 2011
  

  Somewhat lost in the news because of Google's acquisition of Motorola, Buddy Media, a New York startup raised US$54-million at a US$500-million valuation. Buddy Media helps corporations set up and run their presence on a wide range of social networks. From Buddy Media: We are in the midst of a massive shift online from a search and intent-based world to a social, people-based world. The last three years were about the consumer side of social platforms, as we watched Facebook, Zynga and Twitter ...

  Topics: Buddy Media, Google, Motorola, social networks, VC

• Ra.ise a to.ast with some Bre.ad

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  By Yoav Tchelet
  Posted 21 June, 2011
  

  URL shorteners have become ubiquitous to social networking, especially with the sharing of links across Twitter. Bit.ly, Cli.gs, Goo.gl and many others offer an easy and painless way for you to shorten your URL within the 140 character constraint of Twitter. Most of these URL shortening services offer a simple analytics dashboard which is useful for tracking and analysing the number of times people shared your links or clicked on them. But a little known service called Bre.ad is gaining in popularity. What is ...

  Topics: bre.ad, bread, digital marketing, Social media, Social networking, url shorteners

• Corporates embracing social media for information workers

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  By Mark Johnson
  Posted 27 January, 2011
  

  When musician Dave Carroll flew on United Airlines, his guitar was broken by careless baggage handlers. Employees and customer care were indifferent and the airline offered no compensation. So Dave responded by creating a music video called “United breaks guitars” and United felt the wrath of citizen journalism, the social web, and millions of airline travellers. In just 10 days the video received nearly four million views and over fifteen thousand comments on YouTube, and to date the video has ...

  Topics: Best Buy, HRAC, Pfizerpedia

• Mobilitate: A social media platform that takes on government

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  By Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
  Posted 11 January, 2011
  

  Social media has become the proverbial soap-box for causes, issues and many things that need a voice. Social media campaigns spear-headed by individuals often lose momentum because they fail to mobilise people. The power of platforms like Facebook, Twitter and blogs lie in the fact that they empower individuals to publish, influence and make a cause known. But that's the ideal world. The reality is that the impact most individuals can make on a regular basis is limited, fragmented and not ...

  Topics: Crime, Kaizania, mobilitate, social media and democracy, South Africa

• Twangoo brings the power of collective buying to South Africa

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  By Staff Reporter
  Posted 27 July, 2010
  

  Do you like the idea of saving 25% on a floatation hydrotherapy session? Or what about a R100 saving on a meal at Gourmet Burger. If these deals appeal to you, then you might want to consider joining Twangoo.co.za, a new Cape Town-based startup which is harnessing the power of collective buying to make great deals available in cities around South Africa. Collective buying is one of the hottest trends on the web right now, and it's a timely introduction to ...

  Topics: collective buying, Groupon, Twangoo

• Web 2.0 a Poo Sandwich?

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  Posted 25 February, 2006
  

  net savvy Web 2.0 a Poo Sandwich? Some say “Web 2.0” is just the latest meaningless buzzword in a long list of internet hyperbole. But Matthew Buckland argues that such labels can be useful. A well-known blogger wrote that whenever he hears the phrase “Web 2.0” he feels a little bit stupider for the rest of the day. Critics have dismissed the term as the latest meaningless, hyperbolic obfuscation to hit the internet and get people all excited over nothing. If ...

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