Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

How To Mind the Gap

If you’re a Hootsuite user, you know what I’m talking about. The gap becomes visible only after you’ve looked away for a short period of time. It stands for the conversation that’s already happend while you went about the offline behaviors, conversations and tasks that surround you in the real. Still, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus kept going while you were away. No one noticed you left, at least not in the short term. Update by update, the conversation between millions of people didn’t miss a beat. How To Mind the Gap So many times, we choose to ignore the gap. We come back to our phones, tablets and laptops, rejoining the conversation without the least bit of concern paid to the context we’ve lost in passing time of our absence. The size of the gap is determined by how long we’ve looked away. Bigger gaps mean that more has been lost. So, how then exactly do we mind the gap? The answer is simple: When you go back to Hootsuite or your tool of choice, make sure to Flick up instead of down. There’s a lot of value in the content found in the gap…   nateriggsLike what you just read and want to get my posts delivered to your inbox? SUBSCRIBE HEREMore Posts Follow Me:

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How To Combine LinkedIn and Hootsuite to Listen for Job Opportunities

In a few months, there will be a ton of young talent hitting the market after recieveing their sheepskins from various colleges and universities. The timing is the best it’s been in years, too.  According to data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (as displayed by our friends at Google), US unemployment rates have dropped from 10.9% in 2009 to 8.6% as of Novermber 2011.  This is welcome news. What’s even more good news? According to employers responding to a Job Outlook Survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers expect to hire approximately 9.5 percent more graduates from the Class of 2012 as they hired from the Class of 2011. It seems that 2012 will be a year where lots of companies are looking to hire young and fresh talent to staff up and change their aging organizations.  Couple that with an influx of government support allocated to increase the number of startup companies and the rise of the enabling social business culture, and you can see that the outlook for students hitting the job market is the best it’s been in a few years. Keep Your Gloves On Don’t think it’s going to be easy, kids. With all this opportunity (and it is indeed significant), also will come some of the most fierce competition the job market has seen since the economic fall out.  I say that now, in that you can only have competition when there is actually something to compete for, and until this year, staffing budgets and additional headcount weren’t a focus of C-level discussions. To graduate with that career promising first job, here’s my very best advice — start looking right now! The Time is Now Look, if you’re a senior, you’re busy. I get that and we’ve all been there.  You’re also probably burnt out and would much rather enjoy your last quarter of the college life [...]

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My Top 8 Most Used Android Apps of 2011

I’ve been an Android for about two years now and am a self-admitted iOS convert.  AT&T really killed my taste for Apple’s mobile devices back in the days where we didn’t have a choice as to the mobile network provider. That’s changed now, but I never went back to iOS. Take that for what it’s worth as a lesson in customer service and brand advocacy. There’s literally millions of apps to choose from out there and I think people do tend to get a bit “app crazy” these days, always chasing after the latest and greatest to one up their geek friends. In stead of looking at the coolest apps I’ve seen (and rarely ever use), here’s a list of my top 8 apps of 2011. To make my list, I needed to use each of these apps at least a few times per week, if not at least once per day.  If you’re an Android user, give them a look. 1.  Expensify Get it at: Download Expensify Mobile Short description: Great little application that allows me to easily track all of my expenses for personal accounts as well as multiple business accounts. Likes: The app has been designed with a very intuitive interface. It’s fast, dependable and the photo to receipt feature includes scanning so you don’t have any manual data entry when you’re back at your laptop.  You an also capture business cards and track milage from the home screen. Dislikes: The app has a conveniently built in referral platform with incentives. While it’s a pretty brilliant viral marketing mechanism, overusing it might be seen as ‘spammy’ and annoy your new contacts. Careful with this one. Usage pattern: Multiple times daily. How it helps: Saves me countless hours of manual data entry that I would probably forget to do anyway. I believe that Expensify might [...]

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