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Lately I’ve seen an increasing amount of employment agencies (e.g. Manpower, Monster) who are redirecting their vacancies onto social media. This makes me curious about the effectiveness of using social media in finding appropriate employment. But from the employee-side: if and how do people use social media themselves to find a new job.

Do people use (or abuse) social media for themselves to find a jobs or projects? Do you? If so what are your experiences? Share your insights below this post.

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I’ve noticed in my non-geek friends — the majority of my friends — a stunning increase in the use of **social media**. Let me be more specific. Take this friend of mine who is a notorious **technology-privacy-basher** , she rejects most of my **fine suggestions**. Daily I tell her: “You should try [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE5MjI1MTk)” or “Try [Screenr](http://screenr.com/) it doesn’t need installing!”. But she **simple doesn’t**.

But recently she has opened herself a [Tumblr-blog](http://yoldaanderskor.tumblr.com/) and now she is some **sort of an addict**. Of course I’m not supposed to call her an addict. Neither I would call myself a **Twitter-addict**, but with [1,375 tweets](http://twitter.com/patrizio) hardly anyone would believe me.

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Social web expert Stowe Boyd delivers a concise talk on his vision for *social business*. He shares some profound insights on the impacts of ‘social’ on business. It will impact dramatically. His proposed maxim is:

I am made greater by the sum of my connections, and so are my connections.

[youtube width="560" height="340"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0KDFCibxE[/youtube]

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Over the last few weeks I have been reading a bit more on the ‘age of conversation’. There are many articles which scratch the surface, but lack a clear focus on the topic. This post offers some good starting points to start grasping some of the societal changes we seems to be facing.

The big Change
To start of with and introduce the topic have a look at the short video below (~15 min). Author Clay Shirky of “Here Comes Everybody” is one of the few people who a) understand the current changes and b) is able to explain these topics to a broader audience.



Us vs. Them
So more and more people are entering the game, and pick-up the microphone to start talking (or singing for that matter). A movie (~2 hours) completely published online talks about just that:

Us Now: “A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet”


http://www.usnowfilm.com/

Critique
Not everybody agrees or likes that everybody is joining in the conversation. One of the most well know critics is Andrew Keen. He wrote “The Cult of the Amateur” — I guess I am one of those amateurs.

Want more?
Well there is more, much more! But that is journey you have to make by yourself.

David Armano // http://darmano.typepad.com
The Cluetrain manifesto // http://www.cluetrain.com
Noah Brier // http://www.noahbrier.com

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