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Topic: Twitter: Commanding Respect - Lessons in Social Media Deportment: uld anyone be bothered by racist comments or foul language meant for friends only? How easy it is to forget that anyone can read anything that you publicly post at any time. Twitter boasts 175 Million registered users. Can you even visualize how many people that is? The Staples Center where the Lakers play in Downtown Los Angeles can seat up to 20,000 people. I have been to several events at the Staples Center. The crowd is phenomenal and almost unimaginable, even as you sit there and look around. University of California State Fullerton had over 40,000 registered students last semester. That is twice the size of the city where I lived in Indiana. Hard to comprehend. But that number is less than 0.03% of the number of Twitter users. The funny thing about Twitter? More people read and click than type and tweet. Users go to find information, to learn about products, to seek out real-time data, to search out details, to locate people, companies, and brands. THEY look for you. You don't have to look for them. That is the beauty of Twitter; it is permission marketing at its best. Two years ago, I started a Twitter column that captured any tweet that mentioned the word "recruiter." It didn't even have to be hashtagged. It sought out and highlighted each and every tweet, as they came in, real-time. I was shocked by what was being posted about recruiters, the language that was used by those, outside of our industry, who were dealing with recruiters and the contempt and disgust that was sometimes spewed. I started re-tweeting what was said. I wanted our industry to know that smarm was alive and well amongst us. I also wanted to show the power of Twitter and for what it could be used. What you tweet can be tracked. Listen in on a Twitter chat every now and again and you'll realize how important and impactful instant communication and collaboration can be. Ask the numerous individuals that have been fired for tweeting indiscriminately. Ask the restaurants that are using Twitter to monitor what customers like and dislike about their food and service. Ask the universities that want to know what their students are tweeting about. Big Brother has his hand in this cookie jar, to be sure. And we have all heard of random Direct Messages that accidentally went public. Ouch. This isn't a swing set on a playground. Not only the new kid in town, Twitter is a powerful business tool that commands respect and deserves it. We should probably start acting like it. by rayannethorn Not My First Rodeo - Lessons in Social Media Deportment Facebook Graffiti - Lessons in Social Media Deportment Don't Be a LinkedIn Spam Factory - Lessons in Social Media Deportment Twitter: Commanding Respect - Lessons... Think Before You Leap..., to Conclusions. Deportment? Ha!…; Added by Rayanne at 3:45am on December 30, 2010

Topic: Who Has Your Back?: As a matter of fact, when he brought it up, I thought he was joking. Why would he want to take up diving? We had never even mentioned it as something we would like to do. I was kind of at a loss. I wondered what the attraction was and decided that if he was going to dive, than so was I. I scheduled my first class and, frankly, I was surprised by the number of people enrolled and how the class was conducted. The first two sessions were in a classroom with lectures and videos. I felt like I was in high school or a horrible college lecture hall all over again. I questioned why I was there and why, again, did I want to do this. But then I had my first water class in a backyard pool. We studied and assembled the gear and had to prove we knew what we were doing and why. And we practiced in the pool; I even mastered underwater mask clearing. I recognized immediately why I wanted to learn this particular sport. It was incredibly freeing and the liberty it brought? Unmatched. Our next class would take place on a boat, in the Pacific Ocean. We met at a dock in San Pedro and proceeded to Catalina where our entire class did a boat dive. It was exciting and scary all at the same time. I had to partner with a dive buddy - never dive alone! I learned the in's and out's of SCUBA, and was awed by the magnitude of the underwater world. The complexities overwhelming, the potential danger exciting. I was taken in and practically devastated by the power and beauty. Several times during the course of a dive, I got in trouble because I tried to go it alone. "You have a dive buddy for a reason." But rocks, plants, and the exquisiteness of the undersea life captured me. As I followed the group, I stopped - suspended in a kelp bed and studied the Garibaldi, California's state fish. I turned away from "the team" and proceeded on the adventure that lay before me, that is until I noticed the group begin to pull away and I struggled to catch up to them. But I couldn't catch up with them, no possibility. I kicked, I paddled and no luck, I couldn't go anywhere. Kelp had wrapped around the equipment on my back and trapped me. Out of nowhere, one of the dive masters showed up from behind and saved me. Literally. I thanked him later on the boat and he just reminded me of the dive buddy rule and I shamefully agreed to be more cognizant. Life presents opportunities for greatness and adventure all around. We have a tendency to rely on only ourselves, to give only ourselves credit when greatness is achieved or journeys accomplished. Warnings usually consist of others' past experiences. It really is better to have a dive buddy, a designated driver, a partner, an advisor, a mentor, a coach, a friend to listen to, to share with, to face life's ups and downs. Someone that has your back- or at least the back of your SCUBA equipment. "Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." - Lisa Simpson by rayannethorn…; Added by Rayanne at 3:07am on March 4, 2011

Blog Post: Are we ready for recruitment via Snapchat?

As recruiters are becoming increasingly aware of their need to embrace…

Added by Roxanne Abercrombie at 11:09am on January 27, 2015

Blog Post: Tru Unconferences reach Africa: I’m not a tree hugger, well I am, but not in the ‘protest and chain myself to a bark for the day’ type of tree hugger. However I do believe in karma of sorts. Allow me to take recruitment down the…; Added by Dee Allan at 8:39pm on January 17, 2010

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Blog Post: Emerson's Self Reliance - What we can All Learn.

Daniel Chester French's sculpture of Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was…

Added by Mike Rasmussen at 7:31pm on May 19, 2015

Blog Post: Using Social Media to Enhance Your Career Prospects: Social media has been a world-changing phenomenon. Before Facebook’s founding in 2004 there was the likes…; Added by Caitlin Purvis at 10:08am on November 26, 2020

Blog Post: The Pursuit of Happiness In Recruiting & Life - It's Like a Light House

Ahh. Now that is a…

Added by Mike Rasmussen at 4:37am on June 24, 2010

Blog Post: My Time as a Job Seeker

Let me just start with the simple truth that looking for the…

Added by Anna Brekka at 5:36pm on March 26, 2014

Blog Post: Candidates are the future of recruitment. And you won't have any.: For as long as I remember (and in recruitment, that is a very, very long time) getting good candidates has always been about getting…; Added by Greg Savage at 7:04am on September 15, 2014