I’m not a big fan of the holidays or lists for that matter, but I had a bit of a Grinch heart growing moment this morning looking back on some of the best social recruiting posts on RecruitingDaily and RecruitingBlogs in 2014 - articles that I missed, and I’m sure some you overlooked too.

So, rather than keeping all of this to myself, I pulled some of my favorites into a 2014 Social recruiting wrap-up including how to’s, how not to’s and strategies that can make candidate sourcing on social media a bigger piece of your recruiting pie. And yes, I had to make a pie reference. I’m still in the holiday reference window.

To all the writers mentioned here, and all the others who didn’t make the list (there are character limits, y’all), thank you for being a part of our community and here’s to even better ideas and articles in 2015. I’m looking forward to reading.

Tips for your Social Recruiting Strategy:

• Twelve Top Tech Tools For Building A Social Recruiting Strategy by Lars Schmidt
• How to get ROI from Social Recruiting by Lisa Jones
• Recruiting Millennials With Social Media by Matt Charney 
• Compare Free Messaging on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google-Plus: Whic... By Irina Shamaeva

Tapping Into Recruiting On Twitter

• Top 12 Twitter Tips for Social Recruiting Success by Stacy Zapar
• Tweeting and Sneezing: 2014 Social Media Lessons Learned by Nathan Vance 
• Hashtag Employee Recruiting: How to Use Hashtags for Employee Recru... by Jonathan Hulet

Locking Up Candidates on LinkedIn:

• LinkedIn: Why The InMail You Know Is On The Way Out by Pete Radloff
• How LinkedIn Recruiters Use LinkedIn Recruiter by Siofra Pratt
• Don’t Be That Guy: Turning the Table on LinkedIn Losers by Kelly Blokdijk
• 3 ways to contact LinkedIn members who are not open to receiving In... by Maisha Cannon

Finding Candidates on Facebook

• 3 New Facebook Recruiting Fundamentals by Ziv Eliraz  
• Developments in Facebook for Sourcers by Sourcing Adda 

The Other Guys:

• Ello: Is There Anybody Out There? By Pete Radloff
• How Recruiters and Employers can use Tumblr by Katrina Kibben
• How to Utilize Google+ As a Recruitment Tool by Megan Ritter
• Check out the Sourcing On Lesser Known Sites series from Dead DaCosta