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08
Nov

The Social Media Entrepreneur [series]

By • November 8, 2011 • Case Studies, Entrepreneurs, Facebook, Linkedin, Social Media, Twitter • Leave a comment

Over the past few months I have been blogging at www.ideate.co.za on I have used social media to build a business as an entrepreneur. I called it “The Social Entrepreneur” series which sounded cool at the time but I have since found out the the “catchy title” was a but misleading. Either way I thought [...]

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07
Oct

Linkedin adds Company Status Updates [video]

By • October 7, 2011 • Business to Business, Linkedin, Social Media • Leave a comment

I have been waiting for this to happen for some time. With the growth of Linkedin in South Africa and on a global scale it is only fitting that Linkedin would begin offerring ways for company entities to engage their clients. Linkedin have opened the status updates option for Linkedin. This means that Linkedin company pages [...]

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04
Oct

How social screening can help the recruitment process [infographic]

By • October 4, 2011 • Facebook, Generation Y, Linkedin, Recruitment, Social Business, Twitter • Leave a comment

A while ago I wrote an article on how the recruitment industry was shifting due to social media technology. I would like to add to that conversation by talking about social screening. Social screening is the process of searching for potential candidates in social websites like Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter and “checking them out.” This [...]

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09
Sep

Who uses Linkedin in South Africa [infographic]

By • September 9, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Linkedin, Portfolio, Social Media • 6 Comments

I am very proud to present the latest infographic researched, concepted and designed by the team at DigitLab, the social media agency that I lead. Who’s Who on Linkedin in South Africa Linkedin in South Africa has seen a 83% increase in usership over the last 12 months with agriculture and goverment showing the biggest [...]

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06
Sep

Whats the point of Linkedin?

By • September 6, 2011 • Linkedin, Social Media • Leave a comment

In its first minutes as a public company, LinkedIn was valued at roughly $8.5 billion. This made Linkedin the largest internet I.P.O since Google. Linkedin is a social network that focuses on harnessing the power of social technology to improve professional business networking. The website had about 600 000 South African subscribers in 2010 and [...]

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26
May

Does your name affect your chance of success [infographic]

By • May 26, 2011 • Linkedin • 6 Comments

I found an interesting infographic on the names of CEO’s on Linkedin. It seems that if your name is Peter or Deborah you are destined for success. Whereas top sales people and CEO’s all have names that are shorter than four letters (something to think about on your next sales hire). It should have been [...]

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20
May

Digital Business Shifts in Recruitment

By • May 20, 2011 • Industry, Linkedin, Recruitment, Social Business • Leave a comment

As the Internet makes a bigger impact on the recruitment industry we are starting to see recruitment agencies enter into a second state of disruption in South Africa. The first state of disruption that the recruitment industry experienced due to the internet lead to the creation of Job’s Boards and career websites like Career Junction. [...]

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18
Apr

Recruitment Shifts from Social Media

By • April 18, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Facebook, Linkedin, Recruitment, Social Business • 4 Comments

The recruitment industry in South Africa looks like it is on the rise for the first time in two and a half years. Human Resources South Africa reported “employment grew by 5.6% during March.”As business slowly starts to find its feet again after a rough few years in the global economy recruiters are looking for [...]

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14
Apr

South Africa’s Top Websites in 2011

By • April 14, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Facebook, Linkedin, Social Business, Twitter, YouTube • 7 Comments

I am always interested in how South Africans use the internet. Last year I wrote an article on the Top 20 Websites in 2010 and we found that South Africans were primarily interested (in general) in information, entertainment and money. This year a few interesting developments may provide interesting insight into internet usage in South [...]

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22
Jul

SA Linkedin usage report

By • July 22, 2010 • Linkedin, Social Media • 2 Comments

Linkedin is a great network to take part in. It aids business relationship building, employee recruitment, and idea sharing. I have found that being a part of this network has opened up opportunities to profile myself in a professional manner online and start networking with like minded people in my field of work. I have [...]

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