- by Anirban Dutta, Web Producer

Thanks Blake for leading me on to this.

Whether I am blogging or coding I always am on music. The tunes lubricate my whole productivity mechanism.
This post is for those of you who like to groove while you work.

I became highly motivated from Alena's last post and decided to get myself rolling since my personal blogging outage.
So to get started I took a stroll around the hall with my ipod.

When at the gates of our Community, the first thing that you got to do is to get yourself registered as a user.

If you've arrived as an experienced community chief, there's high levels of action hormones flowing in your blood, we have an elaborate webform to ensure that your identity is well accounted for. A dose of Megadeth is already tipping your equalizer bars. Thrash metal is something I have always naturally attributed to the moment when you've crouched tight for a leap into the action ahead. You face your own music if your login credentials are verified to be inappropriate, so the song might as well be one of your die hard favorites.

Place to start is the Communities home page

I would consider this place as the concierge of the entire Community - you might expect an instrumental fill the air to complement the classic oak interiors, a Chopin, Beethoven, Paganinni or any the masters of concerto. This place showcases the building highlights - like the hotel floorplan. There is a Featured content section which gives you a contemporary pick of a video or audio podcast from the industry illuminaries.

First stop - the BMCDN room

"Welcome to the BMC Developer Network, where members who leverage BMC technology can find resources to solve critical business problems. This community provides forums, blogs, documents, and downloads that enhance the value of your BMC Software solutions."

This is a busy zone with lots of activitiy. I would rather compare it to the NY Stock Exchange.
There are games to play, party's to attend and forums to participate and you collect points for your engagement.
So nice chicken pickin country music a picture of floors always filled with scuffling feet.

About BMC Communities

"The About BMC Communities area is your place to find help, frequently asked questions and offer feedback on the BMC Communities. You'll also discover employment opportunities in the technology field."

This lounge is very contemporary because of its drapery of recent content where you have panels of Popular Tags, Recent Activity and a list of Top Participants for our Community which might suggest this place could have a lounge track like Alphawezen "Speed of Light", or a DJ shadow track

something that has a drone but also gives you a feel of being in progression with times.

The IT Management Community

"Welcome to the IT Management Community, where business and technology intersect."

This is serious stuff and Lots of it in the offering. This is the business center of the hotel.

This is the place to hang around if you want to keep a tab on the daily pulse of the IT business. So be prepared with your gadgets and a notebook when you are around here, music cannot be too much of a flurry - at the most I can suggest the ticking of a metronome or a basic instrumental instructional .midi file soundtrack. So you wont find lofty speakers around here.

The Thought Leadership Council

"The Thought Leadership Council is composed of individuals who are industry experts in a variety of strategic areas that impact IT organizations and their business customers."

So this is basically a room for great thoughts, this is our Spa. Sound of conch and wind instruments - this place would have the oriental ambience. This place is really the pagoda for industry knowledge so I'd imagine a backdrop of a Japanese garden and the music to go along with it.

Enterprise leadership

"Enterpriseleadership.org is a thought-leadership forum to help Global Fortune 1000 C-level executives improve their business impact of  information technology in delivering products and services to customers and other constituencies; enhancing improved business processes, and enabling of individual productivity and group productivity."

This is a place where the human intellect is music itself. As the site features podcasts, the audio-out of your sound system can only contain the wisdom of the great thought leaders of our industry, not to mention the intro and the outro bits to the podcasts. There are articles to read as well and if you are like me, need an excuse to swing to the beats, try some Buddha Bar, or new kid in the scene of lounge music - Ryan Farish - and let all the wisdom dawn in on you.

Solution Provider Portal

This is again a massive arena, it is a community in a community, like a China town within your city. Bustling with activity this place demands rich engaging music, the likes of John Mayer or a Stevie Ray Vaughn blues.

Technology Alliance Program

"(TAP) Private Community - where members who leverage BMC technology can find assistance in building solutions that solve critical business problems."

This is again a thought provoking room. Where ideas and technologies combine to give rise to new solutions. This place is much like the bar where bitters, fruit, soda, ice, sugar, honey, milk, are all mixed to serve new cocktails. A dash of Indian classical fused with Western to fire up your drink. You cannot tie down the ambience to a particular genre but that is the case when highly creative minds come together.

Partner Directories

"This Directory features the entire community of BMC Partners - Strategic Alliances, Solution Providers, Consulting Partners, Government and Education Partners, Technology Partners and BSM Certified Partners. The BMC Partner Network includes Partners with extensive IT solutions expertise and geographic coverage."
This place is the speciality restaurant with an elaborate menu. the offerings have been put together by years of culinary experience and is well structured in accordance to the orientation of taste. The theme to this restaurant should hence be pure and time tested. I'll leave this part to have the current track on your play-list. And if you are out of ideas, try some Tommy Emmanuel.

The BMC TV zone

This is the entertainment room of our hotel and has an engaging audio visual experience to what our partners and customers have to say about their experiences with BMC. So that is filling the room here. If thats not, Collective Soul is - let music be the reason

There is a growing collection of blogs, articles and podcasts that offer the richness of a Pink Floyd melody, lots of stuff to participate and engage in, forums to attend and trails to pick up. And if you want to get down straight to business, just whistle your favorite tune, tap on your desk, see how our typing habits has made us all into musicians of some extent. So when you feel like you've something to add to the burgeoning conversations in this place, just log on, hit that play button on your player and let your thoughts trickle like the notes of Musica.

Music is such an inspiration and pleasant insistent distraction; I enjoyed composing this post with words and music and I hope you have a tuneful stay at our Communities hotel.

Till next time, this is your DJ Anirban from BMC Communities, signing off.

- by Alena Hitzemann, Associate Web Editor

Sometimes it's hard to practice what you preach.

I, for instance, often preach to other BMC bloggers about blogging best practices. I evangalize on the importance of posting often. I tell them that once a week is a good goal (especially given busy corporate schedules) but more frequently is even better. I talk about the blog as a more casual forum that doesn't require a perfectly crafted essay, but should instead reflect your own voice (with good grammar, of course.) I use the words "brevity" and "succinct" a lot. I say that sharp, brief and original thoughts are often better than long, drawn out treatises, particularly if you can produce them quickly.

And yet here I am: my last post almost a month ago. I'm not doing so well on the brevity front, either.

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this boat. Work gets busy, and the work that you want to do isn't always the work that you need to do. It appears that walking the walk is slighly more challenging than talking the talk. But I'm a Gen Yer, and we're an idealistic bunch. It's very important to me to balance those wants (read, write, think) with the needs (8 million other things.) So I'm buckling down, determined to follow my own advice and heed the recommendations that I so glibly dispense.

That is the What: write more often, be more succinct, practice what you preach. But what about the easier-said-than-done piece? What about the How?

I've been trying to come up with ways to get it done. Here are the steps that I'm hoping to follow for more consistent and efficient blogging.

• Write when your head is clear. Do you think best in the morning or afternoon? When do your ideas hit, when do you feel energetic and articulate? Notice when your brain feels particularly sharp and capitalize on it. It will be easier, faster and more fun to write during those times.

• Block off time. Put it on your calendar, mark the time "busy" and make yourself stick to it. Yes, other things come up. But holding time for blogging sends the message to yourself and your co-workers that this is an important activity. In turn, you will garner more respect for your blog, build it into a more respectable space, and respect yourself for your diligence and brilliance.

• Be spontaneous. This is the flip side to "block off time." If you come across a news article or blog post and really need to express your opinions on it thisverysecond- make it happen. Your passion and enthusiasm will come through, plus timely posts are more naturally viral.

• Use metrics. Following your number of hits, visits, views, comments, etc. can be a great and addicting motivator. High numbers? Awesome, don't want to let down your readers! Low numbers? Better buckle down and build that fan base.

• Repurpose. Take advantage of your other projects. The research that you did for your boss, that report that you just put together, your most recent ppt... they all contain information and ideas that will be valuable to your readers, too. You did the work, make it work for you.
  

• Take notes. I'm a sucker for forgetting great ideas that pop up at random times. To combat this, I've started scribbling down nuggets of insight whenever they strike and keeping all the scribbles in one place. Looking through them reminds me what bulb went off during that last meeting and how it connects to the post I've been writing in my head.

• Step away. If you're struggling to find the right words or clarify an idea, take a break. Have a snack, walk around, do something else. I often find that when I return to the screen, my thoughts fall quickly into place. (This works for crossword puzzles, too.)

• Get inspired. Feeling flat? Spend some time looking for things that set off a spark. Really think about the information you're consuming- your favorite blogs, news sites, podcasts, good music, a chat with a friend, whatever- and what that information means to you.

• Connect work to life. And vice versa. Thinking about concepts through various lenses often effects particularly interesting results. Plus, your readers want to know who you are as a person. Sharing things about your life or your work with your audience will help them understand the many angles of your writing and your personality.

And most importantly...

• Set goals... and it's corollary, keep them. Say you're going to blog twice a week. Write it down. Add it to your other professional objectives. Tell someone about it so you feel accountable. It helps, I promise.

Ok- that's my list.My goal is to blog twice a week, starting next week. This is the part about telling people to make yourself accountable. Let's hope I can keep it up.

What are your tips and tricks for staying on the blogging ball?

- by Anirban Dutta, Web Producer

The news has opened the lid off one of my red-hot beliefs, something I'm fiercely protective about - The human race is NOT getting any less creative.
History has an awe-striking power and I think we sometimes find it easier to believe as superior, characters or events which we have not experienced in person.
Somehow if that event dates back to the black-n-white era we tend to submit to the awe more easily - I don't know if any of you've felt the same way? We feel as if events and characters are not quite as astounding as they used to be. With all my love for history I still hold out against this white wash monopoly of the yester years.

My youth, I often find myself in a duel of the generations, a revered commander of his times, my respected adversary hurls commentary about our generation Y (Gen Y defining blog by Alena)- branding that it is going no-where in terms of creativity and adventure. The battle horn has blown for me and the backdrop is this photo attached - Prise de la Bastille, by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel (Storming of Bastille prison) and I hurl myself like Achilles toward Hector engaging in the fiercest of verbal battles in contemporary martial history.

Although when the dust settles, not much differently than most debates, the two warriors still vehemently hold on to their respective ideologies, as un-touched and clean as James Bond's suit after a fight - news such as this definitely gives me chances of a meatier punch.

The French Revolution, written by Matt Stewart, is the first novel to be released on Twitter!!!

You can follow the novel here.

Matt's story is highly interesting and quite inspiring for the creative community.

He says: "My agent submitted The French Revolution to all the major publishing houses. Many of them loved it, but none were willing to buy what they viewed as a "risky" novel--vivid language, elements of fantasy and farce, raunchy humor. What better place to take risks than Twitter?" in his blog.
Reading the last line again - The publishing houses didn't want to buy his story so he took to Twitter - one of the most powerful social media tools on the web today and wow! Dramatically choosing July 14, Bastille Day, he has started tweeting lines off his book every 15 minutes.

Today he has posted 746 tweets and at this rate he would take 39 days to complete his Twitter novel. He has 984 followers already before the book is published!

What does this mean?

1. As social media facilitates collaboration and instant feedback, Matt and his followers can discuss the plot together. He could seek inputs and merge views to form the final product. This book could be the first collaborative literary work in the world where the author's followers could literally co author a novel.
2. This exercise would automatically create his own community of readers and followers and coupling it to the Social Media power we know how the business can viral into a wildfire.
3. By being his own publisher he can really be limitlessly creative. When Sylvester Stallone decided to make Rocky in 1976, no producer would believe that he could play the lead role. The studio that finally decided to make the film, made it for only $1.1 million and shot relatively fast in 28 days. And the rest is now history.

You know what am I getting at. Powered with Twitter and Youtube to tell his story do you think Stallone would have really cared to beg for his movie being made to the producers, being Rocky, I dont think he would have? If no producer cared to back his endeavours, all Stallone would need today is a Web Producer friend in me to start the fire.

I do not think that creativity has taken a back seat, it is like undermining the potential of the human being, which would be sin.

I think had Tagore been around today he could have started micro-blogging proses of Gitanjali. Raphael could have published School of Athens on Flickr, Einstein could interact and share his wisdom through wikis.
It is the ways of expressing art that has changed, opening new avenues of possibilities undreamed of before and the creative would always make his mark.

14 July or more commonly le quatorze juillet ("14 July"), Bastille Day, a highlight of the French Revolution may have one more reason to be remembered - A Social media revolution, the first novel authored through collaboration and sharing.

We all remember the The Gutenberg Bible being one of the first books printed in Europe, the book that marks the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book - with today's Social media capabilities this could mark the age of the micro-blogged book.

Read a story of how a mortifying travel experience of a musician could turn into a handsome charity through a country song and a few clicks along....

Dave Carrol, lead singer and his Canadian band Sons of Maxwell were travelling to Nebraska on tour.

They were flying on United Airlines and Dave sees his guitar being manhandled by baggage handlers right in front of his eyes on the tarmac - A $3500 710 Taylor guitar.
He complains to the crew, they ignore him.
He complains to United Airlines about now broken guitar, they did not take any responsibility.
He follows up consistently, with representatives at various levels in the airline - his claims falling to deaf ears - this goes on for nine months.
He holds fire, manages to hold on to his sense of humour and writes a song about the misery at the end of this gestation period of anger and frustration
This is the incredible step - He makes a video and publishes it on youtube powering one of the most famous social media libel suits in modern times.

The shocking scene of seeing his instrument being manhandled is humorously described by Dave in the lines of his song - United breaks guitars (video).

I flew United Airlines on my way to Nebraska
The plane departed, Halifax, connecting in Chicago's "O'Hare".
While on the ground, a passenger said from the seat behind me,
"My God, they're throwing guitars out there"

The band and I exchanged a look, best described as terror
At the action on the tarmac, and knowing whose projectiles these would be
So before I left Chicago, I alerted three employees
Who showed complete indifference towards me

Dave replies to United Airlines's continual denial to his claims in his blog:

"In my final reply to Ms. Irlweg I told her that I would be writing three songs about United Airlines and my experience in the whole matter. I would then make videos for these songs and offer them for free download online, inviting viewers to vote on their favorite United song. My goal: to get one million hits in one year."

Here is a social media savvy musician who absolutely is sure of what he is talking about; however United Airlines again didn't take that seriously - Only to be forced to respond after the video gets 50,000 hits in 1 week of its launch and over 2,000,000 hits since the video was published this July 11th, 2009.

The song became a rage and provided a voice for similar United/other airline negligence inflicted audience in a cool country groove.

Moreover the song has kicked off a major branding trade and you have forums filled with people talking, millions of subscribers on youtube, Downloads available. Also available "United Breaks Guitars" printed T-shirts on sale.

The movement got massive PR coverage and is reported to have taken a blow to the share price - for damage control they've agreed to contribute to a charity of their choice - Dave says on his message.
"United will donate $3,000 to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz for music education for kids," a spokeswoman said from the airline.
The airline has also asked Dave to use his video for internally training staff for better customer service - can you beat that?

We've all faced indifferent attitude and denial from service providers in our life often resulting in frustration and anger. If big fish like United is thick skinned to our claims and outcries, Suddenly you are not just a helpless guy with a laptop - The next door blogger just got bolder. Coverage can run wild though clicks and there has never been a more powerful tool to raise voice. With a little bit of creativity to channelise our juices the web offers powerful ways to move petitions, which could wrap the world over over-night such as this.

Communication is universal and very fast if we use the proper tools.

Check out Twitter's petition tool and many more online petition tools.

The 'United breaks guitars' wave gives us another strong reason to renew our faith on social media and reassess our understanding of its reach and scope. Now we have a strong citation on how video sharing, collaboration and such viral social media activities can really take marketing campaigns way over full throttle!

Social media can achieve in weeks what conventional media and forms of advertisement can achieve in years. Right here we have a measurable case study.

I feel doubly proud of this, firstly as a Social Media activist I can't bridle my excitement of being in the trade and secondly, being a guitar player myself, I would second the fight for a broken Taylor guitar - I'm happy Dave could get even.

- by Alena Hitzemann, Associate Web Editor

I am in the process of buying my first home. Exciting, right? Also nerve-wracking and scary and confusing and exhausting, but mostly really exciting. Talk about learning curve- the last couple months have been similar to my first months at BMC. It's a whole new vocabulary, complete with acronyms, jargon and legalese... plus, they make you do math! Truly shocking, although I do now feel a sense of pride when I casually throw around terms like "loan origination fee" and debate the relative merits of fir v. oak for hardwood floors. I am also full of real estate cliches and catch phrases passed down from our agent. The most important of which, of course, is:

Location, Location, Location.

So that is the context for my brain right now. Everything, including work, is somehow filtered through a real estate lens. Which is why, I think, I had a very interesting thought the other day when perusing some best practices for blogging. Across several articles, the most consistent and emphasized advice was:

Link, Link, Link.

A light switched on. The L word repetition. The insistence of importance. My mind conjured old SAT analogies:

location : real estate :: linking : blogging. But how exactly did these ideas connect?

And then it struck me: community.

Location is the holy grail of real estate because of community. I suppose it also encompasses the size of the lot and the pretty trees out front and the proximity to a park, but really, it's about the people and the way they interact with each other in that space. It's about friendly neighbors, a welcoming vibe and a comfortable environment- who cares if there is a park a block away if no one goes to the park, or even worse, the people in the park make you feel unsafe? "Location, Location, Location" holds true because our feelings about community don't change. We want to feel welcome, we want to feel comfortable, we want to feel like a part of our tribe.

I think linking brings the exact same thing to blogging. It demonstrates community.

Linking shows that you're a willing participant in something bigger. That you're paying attention to what people in your community are saying and that you respect them; you want to promote their ideas, engage with their opinions and encourage others to do the same on your turf. It's chatting over the fence, giving your neighbor a good recipe or even sharing some gossip (community, of course, isn't all sunshine and kittens.) A blog without links is the guy across the street who never waves when he walks to his car and doesn't pick up after his dog. Links are the social currency of the online world, the recipes, the gardening tips, even the slander. They engender the exact feelings of the perfect location: A link-friendly blog, like the home in a good location, is part of a community.

What do you think? Are links always the blogger's tools to build and grow, or can they backfire?

(And believe me, I know that there aren't any links in this post. I think it's my first one without them. Embrace the irony and wait for Friday's Round-Up.)

- by Alena Hitzemann, Associate Web Editor

Two weeks ago, a fifteen year old Londoner named Matthew Robson began a fortnight-long work experience program at Morgan Stanley. He was placed in the media and internet research team, given a list of tasks, and told to go get 'em. One of those tasks was to compile a report on how teenagers, his peers, consume media. He wrote it in a day. Less than a week later, the press, the twitterverse and the blogosphere are all abuzz with the implications of the "revelations" contained in Matthew's report, How Teenagers Consumer Media.

The UK Guardian trumpets the "flurry of interest from media executives and investors" caused by the report.

The Times calls Robson "the talk of Tokyo, Wall Street and the City," and claims that "Fund managers, CEOs  and analysts are poring over his report."

According to CNBC, the report's "striking claims" are "making waves among media executives and investors."

Bloomberg.com quotes "the analysts" as claiming the report contained the “clearest and most thought-provoking insights we have seen.”

I find this all slightly ridiculous. I tend to agree with Time's Dan Fletcher, who summed up his opinion of the hubbub over the report in one word: toss.

Maybe that's a bit harsh. I don't literally think that the report is garbage. I think Mr. Robson (do you call a 15 yr old "Mr."?) deserves serious props for getting a good internship and taking advantage of it. He clearly did his job well, contacted a wealth of primary sources and put together a not-too-terribly written report (although, as an English major, I have a hard time with all of the members of the press out there- writers, no less!- who seem to be implying that it's equivalent to a professionally created document. I mean, come on. He used the word "release" instead of "realize" in one of the most frequently quoted passages. Let's not make this out to be more than it is. *takes off Grammar Police hat.* )

His content is mildly interesting. Turns out that teenagers have short attention spans, enjoy video games, won't pay for music, love their cell phones, and - this is the biggie, apparently - couldn't care less about Twitter. It's a good snapshot into the youth psyche. But here is my big question: why is this news? Isn't this all completely, blatantly obvious? Don't any of these investors, analysts, fund managers, CEOs and the rest HAVE teenagers? Haven't they noticed all the advertising directed at teens that is predicated on this very information?

And more importantly, why do they care? Is Morgan Stanley selling financial packages to sophomores in high school? If teens aren't your target audience, as is the case with many of the marketers so hungrily devouring this report, then who cares that they prefer Limewire to iTunes and think tweeting is for old farts?

The answer is, they think the teens are trendsetters. They seem to believe that (a) what this demographic is doing now, they will also be doing in ten years when they are old enough to spend serious bucks, and/or, (b) what is cool to teenagers will soon become cool to adults, changing the adult consciousness towards media consumption.

And that's where I disagree. That's where this whole hoopla gets really silly to me.

For instance, let's look at Gen Y ten years ago, when we were Matthew's age. I think I was pretty typical of my generation. I hung out on my parents' computer, the family computer, because my friends and I didn't have our own laptops. Internet was painfully slow. It was the heyday of Napster, and like today's teens, we did not pay for music... of course, it took somewhere around 10 minutes to download one song, so our pirating was probably quite a bit slower than our modern counterparts. I was given a Zack Morris-style cell phone for my 15th birthday, and I think it had somewhere around 200 minutes/month on it. I used it exclusively to make calls, and not very long ones- more along the lines of "Mom, I'm sleeping over at Lucy's, see you tomorrow, bye," than protracted conversations. There was no Facebook, there was no Twitter. We did instant message; first it was ICQ, then AIM. That too was slow. All in all, technology played a role in my life, but not a particularly huge or important one.

Clearly times have changed. But I changed with them. So did the rest of Gen Y. As we grew up, our actions evolved along with technology, trends and personal maturity. I no longer use AIM because I now chat on Facebook. I no longer download music illegally because I'm conscious of the implications to the industry and the artist. My cell phone- probably a quarter of the size of that first one- is now my primary means of communication and I couldn't use up my minutes if I tried. This picture looks nothing like it did when I was fifteen.

Furthermore, I really don't think that teenage trends will significantly affect adult actions. Fifteen year olds are coming from an entirely different place. Things become cool for different reasons: because they're free, and when you're in high school, you have no money; because you have an abundance of free time in which to play video games; because it's easy to circumvent and avoid adults. These reasons don't translate to adult coolness, at least in my book.The fact that teens aren't on Twitter has nothing to do with my efforts to use that particular tool to gather and disseminate knowledge or to promote my work and my company.

The information that Matthew Robson presented is certainly relevant to anyone marketing to teens. But I really think the buck stops there. Who knows where they'll be by the time they're buying into hedge funds and enterprise software- somehow, I don't think it will involve Twitter.

- by Alena Hitzemann, Associate Web Editor

Earlier this week, my Web Strategy cohorts and I met with some representatives of BMC's HR team to discuss opportunities on the web. Careers have a strong presence on our company website, but we wanted to explore ideas and options beyond bmc.com. This led to an interesting conversation about HR's current relationship to social media.

To me, the connections between recruiting, job hunting and web 2.0 seem intuitive and obvious. I was on the job prowl not too terribly long ago, and social media played an integral role in the process. Before submitting an application, I not only Googled a company, I searched Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to see what the general public was saying. When I was lucky enough to get an interview, this research intensified. I dug deep for details on anyone I'd be meeting, and usually discovered a wealth of information. By the time the interview began, I often knew what these people looked like, where they lived, where they'd worked in the past, where they went to school, and more.

Was this process slightly creepy? Maybe. Semi-stalkerish? Perhaps. But the thing is, I assumed that they were doing the exact same thing about me. In fact, I would be surprised if they didn't. I keep constant tabs on my online reputation, making sure that Google results, Facebook pages and the like present both information and images that I'm comfortable showing the world. In my opinion, this is common sense. Don't want future employers seeing intoxicated/questionable/incriminating photos of you? Don't put them on the internet.

But- as our conversation with HR proved this week- it's not that simple. From a legal and ethical perspective, knowing too much about a potential employee can lead to shaky ground. Best practices around recruiting and hiring are constantly evolving. The essential tools in the HR professional's belt change frequently. The gray area surrounding the confluence of staying up to date, staying relevant, staying on the ball, staying legal and staying out of trouble continues to grow.

And so, in the spirit of making that gray area just slightly more clear, I present the first installment of the Friday Round-up. These links represent my attempt at learning more about social media and HR. I hope they help you do the same.

LinkedIn:

Savvy Companies Get LinkedIn To Find Top Talent

I’m On LinkedIn… Now What?

Discrimination Issues:

Social Media, Recruitment, Discrimination & The Legal Implications

Is it ethical for a recruiter to Google a candidate?

General Social Media:

CareerBuilder’s Top Ten Best Practices for Using Social Media as a Recruitment Tool

Enterprise 2.0 - Using Social Media to Address HR Priorities

Social Media For Hr Professionals Beyond Linked In 4 16 2009

Three Ways to Use Social Media for HR Needs

Social Media and HR Communication Strategy

Smart Ways to Use Social Media Tools

5 Must-Use Social Media Tools For HR & Recruiting Professionals In 2009

52 ideas on using social media within HR