Using Social Networks in Emergency Situations

An article published earlier this week in CNN’s SciTechBlog recounts a story in Australia in which two young girls were trapped in a storm sewer and notified friends via Facebook rather than directly calling Australia’s emergency phone number 000 (the equivalent to 911 in the U.S.).  A similar story occured earlier this year when at [...]

Use Facebook/Twitter to Reach Out to Employers

This Fortune video clip The unemployed take to the Web provides some interesting insight into how people are coping with today’s job losses. With unemployment taking over our country’s labor force, its really interesting to see how new technology is affecting people’s daily activities.  Pretty cool how people are connecting through social networking sites, even for work-related [...]

A Grim Look to the Near Future

So I’ve been having informational interviews with professionals in various industries in hopes of getting connected to position openings, and not one of the many individuals I’ve spoken to has made positive predictions about the future of the job market.  Everyday now, thousands are losing their jobs, and it doesn’t sound like it is going [...]

Facebook: Can social networking hurt your chances of landing a job?

I am taking a class this semester on brand management, and we read a case about a brewing company that used Facebook to try to raise the brand’s awareness among young college students.  The company’s campaign included a contest for several university campuses where students were to post and/or send in photos of them enjoying [...]