Social Media- Kevin B Hawkins

Jan

6

Kevin B Hawkins

5 reasons why I’m finally joining Google+

About six months ago or so Google+ was released – but after many frustrating experiences with failed Google experiments I decided to pass on using Google+ for at least six months. I knew that Google was looking to make a meaningful entrance into the social universe, I knew that they were looking for a way to integrate social with search results – and that attempts to do that with Facebook and Twitter...

Jul

14

Kevin B Hawkins

Can Twitter Social Recruiting Prove Its Worth? Yes, but…

Apparently a challenge is in place where Twitter specialists were asked – “using your Twitter broadcast methods, find me candidates for XYZ job and prove your worth”. (Thanks to James Mayes and his excellent UK-based social recruiting blog which brought this to my attention in The #day socialrecruiting got challenged if anyone knows where this challenge was posted, please share it in comments here). The...

Apr

20

Kevin B Hawkins

Social Media and SEO – The New Gold Rush

The landscape of SEO is changing and, well, you’re probably not ready to react. Many organizations are just getting up to speed with in-page optimization strategies. Those are all the things you do on a web-page for SEO, like focusing on a specific keyword with title tags, a good description and other fun details too geeky to get into right now. Some forward-thinking companies are exploring off-page strategies...

Apr

6

Social Media

Kevin B Hawkins

What Are The 15 Most Popular Web 2.0 Websites?

EBizMBA ranked the 15 most popular/largest Web 2.0 Web sites as of April 2010. To compile the list, they ranked according to a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. It provides a great overview of the top sites where people are congregating and engaging online. 1. YouTube.com 2. Wikipedia.org 3. Craigslist.org 4. Twitter 5. photobucket.com 6....

Mar

24

Kevin B Hawkins

Just who are your real friends on Facebook?

A few days ago, @N3W_Media raised an interesting point and question. The other day I submitted my proposed answer/term to Urban Dictionary. I just heard that it was accepted, so ‘yay’ for that! I’ll provide a link to the at the end of this post. Anyways, here tweet from @N3W_Media: ‘…not real friends just Facebook friends’. Is FB devaluing the term Friend? Should they have...

Mar

16

Kevin B Hawkins

Starbucks asks Foursquare to the dance…will recruitment follow?

After one year in operation, the geo-location/game/stalker’s dream tool Foursquare has landed a huge brand: Starbucks. Foursquare is a mobile-device based game in which people “check in” at places they visit (the gym, a bar, an airport terminal, etc) and often share their location with friends via Twitter and Facebook. Since the game started, businesses have been exploring ways to take leverage...

Mar

9

Social Media

Kevin B Hawkins

The insanely simple reason companies mis-use social media.

I was having a brief ‘between-panels’ discussion at an HR event when something occured to me, a simple revelation that changed how I talk about social media. You see, day in and day out social media as we know it is being mistreated in ways that would get someone fined in your typical episode of Animal Precinct. And I’m conviced that, at the root of it, it’s for one simple reason: the...

Oct

29

Kevin B Hawkins

Three Ways Google Gets Evil with Sidewiki

There has been a lot of talk about Google’s new Sidewiki…a tool which allows anyone to comment about a web page, virtually ON the web page itself in a sidebar. These comments and postings are only available to people who have the sidebar installed but, no-doubt, Google’s hope is that more web surfers will use this as part of their pursuit of socializing and democratizing the internet. That...

Aug

20

kevinbhawkins

How do I continuously increase my following on Twitter?

I was skimming through the Q&A section of LinkedIn when I found the following question which cuts right to the heart of the ‘Twitter dilemma’ for many users. It was titled: ‘How do I continuously increase my following on Twitter?’ It read: I have been put in charge of our Twitter account. Our following is slowly increasing, but I still haven’t got the hang of it. Is their any...