NowSourcing
The Twitter Translation Community project is up and running! Now, thanks to your fellow Tweeple, you will soon be able to have Twitter in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, which are in addition to the currently implemented Japanese and English. The announcement for this project was made earlier this month on the Twitter (Read More)
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Let me just say it one more time - SXSW was a lot of fun. If I ever had any doubts about social media bringing people together, I’m all in now. It is really great to finally meet clients, partners, friends, and associates that we’ve chatted online and have now met in the flesh.By now if you weren’t at SXSW, you’re probabl (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
I went on LinkedIn for the first time in months today and accepted about 150 pending contact requests. Great. Now what? I never find much use for LinkedIn except for people trying to contact me -- typically for things I'm not really interested in. I also find that if I ignore LinkedIn for a bit of time it kinda just goe (Read More)
: @VincentWright Yes. Whether it is professional networking or social networking you have to think of what you are getting out of all your hyper activity. This is very true in case of professional networking because every minute we spend there adds to cost like any other resource we use.
: Linkedin has opened me new avenues to connect to key people of my field which otherwise is not possible in Job search sites as I am representing many freelancers who don't have much time to promote their image online. Linkedin has given us front page listings in google searches to our Project Vyas which over a period of time has created recognition and credibility among our local communities as no one else in our town has used Linkedin in such an extensive way. Today many software professionals, project managers, HR people natives of my town settled abroad are trying to connect to me on their own. The secret is stand out in any network whether it is Linkedin or Stumbleupon or Digg. Stay long and consistently.
Submitted by Hutch
from Google Reader:
Not sure how it came to this so fast, but the New York Times (NYT) is running on fumes. This situation will only get worse as advertising revenue continues to fall.The company has only $46 million of cash. It appears to be burning more that it is taking in--and plugging the hole with debt. Specifically, it is funding opera (Read More)
: Well there still afloat. I was thinking about this the other day, i glad someone clipped it. I actually try to use it more often than I have. Just, doing my tiny part to keep them alive!