The News Review:
- Companies want applicants with social-media skills
- Live Blog: Tiger Woods second round at Buick pen
- In a Near-Death Event a Corporate Right of Passage
- Marketing’s Wild West Gets Civilized
- Bethenny Frankel Blogs About The Real Housewives of Atlanta …
- Live Ashes Blogging: England v Australia Day Three
Companies want applicants with social-media skills
Atlanta Journal Constitution
A sampling of job postings on Monster. com: “Social Media Ninja” “Social Media Strategist” “Director of Public Relations and Social Media” and “Conversation Manager. in Lawrenceville seeks a Social Media Coordinator who can develop content for Facebook Twitter and blogs. These kinds of social media jobs began emerging about six months ago Van Rossum said and most of them are six to nine-month contract positions with companies looking to have a social media strategy set up for them. This social media craze among employers is creating some complications for job applicants and employees Van Rossum said such as blurring the lines between personal and professional lives. “Facebook pages aren’t about business they’re about you as a person but how people perceive you as a person will ultimately impact how they perceive the place where you work” Van Rossum said.
Live Blog: Tiger Woods second round at Buick pen
Golf.com
Leaderboard | More updates on Twitter | Join SI GLFNation 12:53 p. After a jarring respite.
Related from Golf-monster: Is Tiger Woods Hurting Golf?
In a Near-Death Event a Corporate Right of Passage
New York Times
Today’s world requires a different leadership style — moving more into a collaboration and teamwork including learning how to use Web 2. If you had told me I’d be video blogging and blogging I would have said no way. And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more. Did you need to be pushed?A. Well at first I didn’t like the message.
Marketing’s Wild West Gets Civilized
Forbes
But it illustrates the Wild West credo that has governed the evolving relationship between blogs and would-be advertisers. Transparency-minded bloggers have always policed their own communities for shakedown artists and hucksters with some success. But now that blogging has grown enough to attract the attention of the Federal Trade Commission self-government on this last frontier is at an end. The FTC issues guidelines aimed at protecting consumers from false advertising across all media. While in the last decade businesses have increasingly targeted blogs as vehicles for advertising and marketing the guidelines hadn’t been updated since 1980.
Bethenny Frankel Blogs About The Real Housewives of Atlanta …
E! nline
Bethenny is blogging for E! nline every week dishing about the craziness that goes down on the new season. Here’s her first Atlanta installment for last night’s season premiere. Take it away Bethenny.
Live Ashes Blogging: England v Australia Day Three
betting.betfair.com
42 Eng 116-2While we wait for play here do check out Geoffrey Riddle’s. It’s raining on the Downs too but that won’t stop the action.