Looking for a ‘Community Manager’…ASAP

Location Work Remotely occasionally travel to Madrid, Spain. All expenses paid Salary £25-30k £30,000+ based on experience. Position Full Time Starting Date ASAP About Actualize Group Actualize Group is a technology support and high value marketing solution multinational based in UK, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia, which is growing rapidly in EMEA and Latin [...]

Recruiting with Social Media recommended by Recruiters

Recruiting with Social Media: Social Media’s Impact on Recruitment has had glorying reviews from recruiters and HR professionals. I found some on LinkedIn today and wanted to share them: Andrew Meehansee Recruitment Researcher at Prudent Recruitment Comment: “A must read for any forwarding looking recruiter” Christos Tsaprounis Resourcing Specialist at Co-operative Financial Services Comment: “I recently bought [...]

Blackberry’ homepage 2002-10 and key learnings about their strategy

The home page of a website tells us a lot about the marketing strategy and product lines. No better example than Blackberry, which has constantly been working on it’s offering and audience. It began as a completely business focused (see 2002), although over the years it saw uptake from regular users and tweaked it’s message. [...]

The rise of the new Social Media Smarphones

Social media and networking has become an international obsession, with Facebook accumulating more than half a billion users and microblogging site Twitter growing from humble beginnings into a powerful tool which can be used to build political movements or get its users in trouble with the authorities. Some analysts predict that social networking sites like [...]

Selling just under 300 books per week in just 20 days

I’m glad to announce that my book on recruiting with social media in just 20 days is now ranked 17,367 out of 424,793 Kiddle books on Amazon. According to fonerbooks.com that implies that the book is selling just under 300 books per week on Amazon.com alone based on the graph (below) and multiplying a factor of [...]

My book ‘Recruiting with Social Media’ out 3rd August

I’m glad to inform that my book Recruitment with Social Media, Social Media’s Impact on Recruitment and HR is out on 3rd August 2010, published by Que/Pearson Publication. You can buy a copy from Recruiting with Social Media (Que eStore). About the Book The book highlights the power of recruiting people with Social Media! Social [...]

Digital Product Placement (incl. Twitter) in David Guetta’s new video

As a keen YouTube and dance music fan I was watching David Guetta & Chris Willis ft Fergie & LMFAO – Gettin’ Over You music video and was almost surprised to see how three products i.e. Samsung Wave (iPhone competitor), Twitter and EverestPoker.com were embedded in the video, watch the video below. Impressive how the product [...]

Our experience of launching Internal Communication Platform

We  (The Actualize Group / @actualizelabs) are a 130+ employee company providing IT services to premium banking, insurance, telecommunication and technology customer based in London, Spain, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.  We believe that communication inside our organisation is a key aspect of developing a healthy environment and working relationships. Further the more the company’s employees speak and [...]

Why Ning’s Business model doesn’t make sense!

Recently found out that Ning is cutting is costs inorder to be more competitive , firing 40% of it’s staff. Having run a social networking software company myself. I ‘m well aware of the challenges and opportunities in running a social media shop. Apart from it’s advertisement supported business model, one of the principle reasons why Ning [...]

Videos interviews with recruitment experts at #TruLondon

I had some really interesting conversations with people at #TruLondon unfortunately not all videos came out. Technology fail! Never the less some really interesting content  available below. Social Sourcing and Future of Blogging SourcerSrini mentions how he is uses social media for sourcing candidates. PunkRockHR good insight on the future of blogging. Innovative startup in Recruitment @James_Mayes [...]