Weekly Round-Up | Vol. 80

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CAREER TIPS

9 Dynamic Digital Resumes That Stand Out From the Crowd – Mashable
Potential employers are going to check out your online presence – why not make it fun and illuminating for them? It may just win you the job.

HOW TO: Jump-Start Your Career by Becoming an Online Influencer – Mashable
We’ve talked about attracting the attention of influencers, but what about actually becoming one?

HOW TO: Deal With Negative Online Sentiment About Your Brand – Mashable
It’s the badvocate idea and it never gets old. Find out how to get even the least likely to support you.

The Secret To Getting 50,000 followers on Twitter – David Meerman Scott
There is no secret. BUT there are a lot of ways of getting there…one, two, or ten followers at a time.

NIFTY IDEAS

If This Then That
Puts the internet to work for you.
For example:

IF you get a new Twitter follower THEN it can send them a thank you.

or…

IF you schedule a blog post THEN it can upload it to Facebook.

The best bit? You create the action you want it to take choosing from loads of different sites.

Meshin
Straight out of Palo Alto Research Centre (the home of the first ethernet) comes this clever little sidebar for Outlook users. It allows you to find what you need, even when you’re not quite sure what that is!

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

Why You Should Consider Eliminating Press Releases – Consumer Evangelists
We all hate junk mail. A dodgy press release is even worse.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Johanna Blakley: Social Media and The End Of Gender – TED Talks

“Shared interests and values are a far more powerful aggregator of humans beings than demographic categories.”

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