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Searching for a job in today’s market is tough. You want to use every tool available, and as far as those tools go, social media is a pretty powerful one. Batchbook customer and social media strategist Joshua Waldman sets out to show you just how to harness the power of social media to find your next job in his new book, Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies.
Joshua’s passion is helping job seekers and employers use social tools to connect and to find and fill jobs. He blogs on the topic regularly at his website, careerenlightenment.com. He discovered this passion after being laid off twice within 6 months in 2008. After the second lay off, he started to spend more time in social media, partly as a way to immerse himself into something positive after being dealt a couple of hard blows.
Before long, Joshua found that he was able to connect with people who were hiring, and he lined up a bunch of interviews. There was only one problem, he wasn’t ready to take another job. Instead, he had a light-bulb moment. If he could get interviews and job offers using social media, maybe he could teach others to use these tools as well. This is how he started his career as a social media strategist, focusing on the job market niche.
Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies is a resource heavy book, sort of a manual for job seekers who hope to capitalize on the power of tools like Twitter and LinkedIn to help them find a great job.
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You might remember that we spent a little time in Austin a few weeks ago. In addition to getting to hang out with a ton of Batchbook customers and partners, Michelle sat on a panel with some of our Small Business Web friends: Freshbooks, MailChimp and Formstack. The panel was moderated by Scott McMullan of Google. He’s part of the Google Enterprise group and leads the Google Apps Partners program.
Hold on. Google? Enterprise? Small Business? Yes! Scott has been a champion for small businesses for as long as we can remember and he made a big announcement at the start of the panel: Google Apps have become members of The Small Business Web. And we’re tickled to be in such good company. Google Apps and The Small Business Web share a common set of goals and philosophies. Specifically the the belief that web apps are more valuable when they integrate and work together. We continue to work hard to integrate Google Apps into Batchbook and have some exciting things coming up in the not to distant future that will strengthen those integrations.
The panel itself covered a range of topics from why and how web apps can work together to how small businesses can leverage the power of the web to help their business grow. The folks at SXSW have posted the audio of the panel, go have a listen!
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Tags: google, small business web, snapengage, SXSW
We’re on a bit of a roll with launching revamped versions of integrations in Batchbook. First it was MailChimp and now it’s on to something very near and dear to our hearts: social media.
This is a major revamp to how we integrate social media in Batchbook. We’ve both revamped Twitter and Linkedin and added full Facebook support. Let’s take a look at some screenshots of the new integrations. We also have a great screencast at the bottom so you can see it all in action.
First let’s take a look at Twitter:
Build social media activity into your workflow
For each service, we’ve added a more complete profile to your social media supertag. You’ll now see “cards” for each connected account. On Twitter you can now follow, retweet, favorite and/or reply right from Batchbook. You can also save the individual tweets as Communications or To-Dos. Turning Tweets into actionable items is a fantastically useful way to bring social into your everyday Batchbook workflow. (more…)
Tags: batchbook, facebook, integration, linkedin, social crm, Social Media, twitter
We learned recently from our partner Flowtown that they have decided to change their API policy to no longer allow the social media discovery searches that some of our customers are using to power the “search social media” button in BatchBook. According to their blog post, starting January 1, 2011 this search will no longer be available to BatchBook customers who have set up an integration with Flowtown. This does not affect most BatchBook accounts, as we do have a lighter version of the search built in to every BatchBook account. This only affects those customers who had a separate Flowtown account and had set up their integration with BatchBook. We are working with other vendors to continue to increase and improve the social media integration in BatchBook
While we are sorry to see this change in policy from Flowtown, we do understand their need to adjust their API functionality to support their business efforts. This is a formative time in the world of integrated business development, and we appreciate Flowtown’s early and open discussions with us as they made these changes. We will continue to work with vendors such as Flowtown and other members of the Small Business Web to help establish best practices and standards for sharing information between social networks, online applications and mobile devices. Cloud customers can only win if we as an integrated business community work with each other and the social media networks to establish reliable procedures for data sharing.
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It’s that most wonderful time of the year…already! Soon we’ll be inundated with messages/flyers/commercials/circulars/emails about “Black Friday” and its web-based cousin “Cyber Monday”. Every Big Box Store will be flaunting its wares at prices so outrageous you’ll be inclined to join the stampedes at 5am.
But what about the little, local stores? The small businesses that drive your community, the folks you know and love. How can they benefit from holiday shoppers lacking the marketing budgets of their Big Box kin? Answer: Small Business Saturday.
With Amex OPEN leading the charge and joined by advocates like The 3/50 Project, Girls Inc., and Facebook, Small Business Saturday is a national movement to drive shoppers to local merchants across the U.S.
Taking place on November 27th, Small Business Saturday will help to recognize the importance of small, independently owned businesses to the overall economy and local communities.
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