Social Media
What is all the fuss about social media?
They say a picture tells a 1000 words - do you see? Times are changing...
Social media is'nt a new fad, its been around for a long time, remember chatrooms and forums? Those were the old
forms of social media (that are still being used today). Perhaps for you, social media as a term is new - what does it mean?
It's all about 4 things, collaboration, sharing, interaction and engagement. More keywords you may think! - but sharing
is most peoples favourite pastime, its a human trait we can't deny. If you see something interesting, funny, informative or
perhaps breaking news you want to be the one to break that news first. Be the first person. But the end result is that the
information has actually been shared between 10,000's very quickly.
Sharing isn't new
The aspects are the same, the technology that evolves to cater for our thirst for sharing information, engaging with people,
collaborating and interaction evolves.
TwitJobs has grown from 0 to over 35,000 followers on Twitter through 13 accounts and another 2,000 through 8 other social
networks. How have we done this? By people seeing value in our content. Our jobs are posted by real people, then tweeted
by real people who are'nt bots (we answer back, good or bad!) then shared, and applied for by real people.
The first person to get a job using TwitJobs was on the bus in London, to the Job centre, using their Iphone. Thats a sentance
that just would'nt of been written before. The power of the platform, combined with human interaction, sharing, interaction and
engagement has made all the other job boards in the UK take notice.
So, Twitter how do you share?
RT'ing has become the way people share using twitter.com - obviously, people do this in other ways on other
social networks, or even use email to share the latest news or photos with friends and family.
Heres a snapshot taken from July 12th to August 1st 2009, and shows in detail just how many of (one of our
profiles remember) has our postings re-tweeted. You can see just a few first level RT's open up a cascade of
people re-tweeting. Again, we have 13 accounts on twitter for TwitJobs.co.uk and shows just how people have
already warmed to us as a brand and trust & respect our content.
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