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On time for once! The JUNE MEDIA NEWSLETTER IS OUT NOW!
Simply go to the link on the fabby new website and while you are at...
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ASA 'top' offensive adverts - are there any recruitment equivalents?
For what it's worth, I don't think I can remember many offensive...
Top offensive ads: singing while eating is worse than a naked Sophie... -
Sadly, not a surprise either...given events with the SUN telegraph.co.uk
Trinity Mirror has announced that the editors of the Daily Mirror and...
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Sirona Says: LinkedIn tool called Newin shows new members joining in... blog.sironaconsulting.com
Ever wondered what the growth of a social network actually looks...
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new, improved, thePotentmix website...where you can get the daily... site-fusion.co.uk
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Alastair
Why is Facebook not like Carlsberg
Probably not the best IPO in the world....
Facebook shares slump to record low below $30 - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
Facebook's share price hit a record low on the Nasdaq today, tumbling to $29.72 from its flotation price of $38 less than two weeks ago.
Sirona Says: Three brilliant under used LinkedIn social recruiting tools blog.sironaconsulting.com
Everyone is now talking about social recruiting, using social media in recruitment, but still many people are missing a few tricks with the 'recruiting default social network', LinkedIn. Just because you have a LinkedIn...
Alastair
Intrusive advertising - this takes the biscuit....
Although we all got lots of time to get used to the idea that the cookie rules were coming (over a year), it is still causing confusion. ...
Developments in web browsing technology have in recent years largely consigned the irritating pop-up advertisement to internet history. But European rules aimed at protecting the UK’s internet users from intrusive advertising...
Alastair
Should Daily Newspapers move their recruitment to Saturday?
The figures don't lie. Massively increased circulations on a Saturday = more readers - do they have more time to scan for a job?
National dailies reveal Saturday-only sales for first time pressgazette.co.uk
New figures have revealed the extent to which UK national newspaper Saturday circulations far exceed sales on Monday to Friday. The Guardian more than doubles its sales on Saturday – with 377,268 copies a week in April, versus...
Alastair
Archived Newsletters thepotentmix.co.uk
The infamous Media Newsletter's genesis lies in a similar newsletter I produced when at Riley. However, the current version does not have any corporate restraints, so I can express my views as I see fit. There is, I hope you...
Alastair
A friend recently wrote...."I believe LinkedIn is creating a possible problem for itself by trying to commercialise recruitment services...
This, I think, is the best one-line summary of where LinkedIn is at the moment. I'd be interested in anyone else's views. Take a minute ...
Adam
Do you connect on LinkedIn with people you don't yet know offline?
I asked this question on a LinkedIn poll a year ago and 769 people took part. I look forward to finding out if there have been any ...
Vote on this LinkedIn Poll to see the results divided by age, seniority, and gender. Use Polls to leverage the collective wisdom of millions of business professionals on LinkedIn.
Alastair
StepStone buys Totaljobs Group for £110 million personneltoday.com
Reed Business Information (RBI) has today announced the sale of Totaljobs Group, the UK's largest job board, to StepStone for £110 million. Mark...
Peter
s1jobs Awards Winners
A great night and great winners!
Office Angels rises to the top at first recruitment awards heraldscotland.com
Users of the s1jobs website –part of The Herald and Times Group – nominated which firms should be put forward to the shortlist for the event. They then voted Office Angels, which has offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee,...
Alastair
Which agency really understands the media?
Last year, I conducted a wee poll, which asked you to name the agency you thought was the best at working with the media. This was won ...
The most professional agency? Survey surveymonkey.com
Alastair
Not good news from the Express and Star
Couple this with the news of senior level cuts at JP, and continuing redundancies across the industry, and it's not great news all round ...
Richard Desmond, the owner of the Express and Daily Star newspapers, is planning to implement a deep cost-cutting programme across his titles that could see more than £5m taken out of the cost base. Executives at Northern &...
Alastair
Digital & Social Media Marketing report, including B2B, ownership, cautionary tales, viral campaigns, marketing budgets, advertising, mobile, non-profits, Francis Keeling, Pinterest from...
Alastair
An interesting new venture and possibly a completely new word
I shall declare an interest. These two reprobates are friends of mine, although they would probably deny it. However, they know their ...
The Future Ink thefutureink.com
Alastair
Age, gender, location = are you are a miserable git?
Nothing to do with recruitment, unless the sample came exclusively from those in agencies or the media, but apparently men in their late ...
Middle aged men who live in London or the West Midlands are the unhappiest people in the UK, while pensioners enjoy life the most, official research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows.
Alastair
A future for papers onlline that actually makes money...?
Interesting stuff from the FT about the NY TIMES making money, well, at least stabilising revenues, from digital subscriptions.
Digital subscriptions to the New York Times online edition stabilised revenues at the publisher’s flagship title in the fourth quarter of 2011, but group results were dragged down by a further decline at About.com, its consumer...
Alastair
A major new survey - Perception of Social Media as a recruitment tool
If you have a problem with the link below, please cut and paste this link into your browser.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HRIISocialm ...
The Perception of Social Media as a Recruitment Tool surveymonkey.com
Recruitment marketing is changing rapidly, with job-boads now the mainstream method of advertising after decades of newspaper dominance. However, social media and LinkedIn are now starting to have an impact. Our last survey...
Alastair
Meanwhile, over at the other Awards Ceremony last night...
On Thursday the 19th of January, at the Guildhall in London, the Public Sector Digital Awards for 2011 were presented by Francis Maude ...
